The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-05-23
Lsrd CIarcndehss Reply q Mr. Marcy ID
Il - a to lne uemaf1dea Recall Of Mr..

1 Ampt0n and OfhefN. ~
T The dispatch Of Lord Clarendon Of April 3oth,
in reply to Mr.. Marcy on the enlistnens question,
was sent into the Senate Wednesday
Lord ClArendon's letter commences by acknowl-
eagine NJ. buchanan's dispatch Of the 2gth jan
| nary, with copy Of the dispatch of the 2s,h De-
cemoer previona Lord Clarendon says that be
deferred an answer 10 that commune alton in or.
| DER that he might thoroughly inquire into the
charges against the British Minister and represen
tatives IN the United States, and to give parties
charged an opportunity Of replying. He then
proceeds to express the deep regret of the Brit
| ish government that they are obliged to continue
controversy which they had trtIsted would have
terminated with his last dispatch.
He continues at great length 10 review the whole
previous correspondence, and all matters In dis.
putea Coming at length to the dispatch of Mr.
Marcy OF the 9th of September Lord Clarendon
concludes by remarking that this dispatch indica,
ted the satisfaction which Mr.. Marcy had declared
tnat the government of the United States demand
ed With respect to the first part Of this demand
Tor satisfaction, Her Majesty's government deny
r .nas any Illegal proceedings were, 30 far as they
knew, committed by its representatives Or officers
or agents, requiring them TO be dealt with a. of
lenders His lordship then proceeds to argue that
the United States government has itself admitted
that all satIsfaction that had been claimed had
long since been given. 1t might he says have
been naturally supposed that the correspondence
would have ended with that satisfaction being af
| Iorded Her Majesty's government were. how ey.
er, disappontedi for, on january 2Sth. q dispatch
from Mr.. Marcy, dated 26th December. recapitula.
ted the complaints Of the government of the II
states, and reiterated its demand. Their demand
consisted in an application for the recall of Mr.
SEamp'on ana the Consuls at Cincinnati, phiIa.
delphia and New York ts Il s-''--.s-N =
Lord Clarendon then proceeds to review the
| avs upon the subject, and the policy of the
United States with regard to neutrality. contrast.
ing ~ with that OF England. The real questions
at issue, he says are: First whether the Rr;t;sb
Government anticipated any violation of the rsu
trality laws of the United States; and in tho a.
cond place. whether, If the British Goyernment
ald not order or contemplate such violation, those
| laws were violated by persons acting rndar N
authority and appreciation of that Government
and lastly whether if any violation of the Tinted
States laws did take place, sufficient satsfaction
mas not been given to the Government of that
country In reply Lord Clarendon asserts. viz : /
First, the British Government neither ordered
nor contemplated any violation of the neutralitv
| laws but issued positive orders and directions
to the contrary; secondly, Mr.. Marcy alleges that
| notwithstanding these orders of the British Co.
yernment, their officers did do that which was \
violation of the neutrality laws of the United
States, and further makes this specific charge
against MIR. Champion and the three Consuls-
Before the undersigned proceeds to reply to Mr..
Marcy's note of the 28th December, he must no.
| tice the erroneous construction which Mr.. NJ has
| there put upon passage in the dispatch of 18th
| April, 1853, from the undersigned to Mr.. Cramp-
ton, which was communicated by him to Mr.. Marcy.
Il entirely approve of your proceedings as re-
ported in your dispatch of the 18th ult, with re-
| spect to the proposed enlistment in the Queen d
service Of foreigners and British subjects in the
| United States'
lnreference to this, Lord Clarendon proceeds as
| follows Pc &--s-3-= : a5.a
| Mr.. Marcy assumes, and argues upon the as.
sumption, that the meaning OF this passage was
that the enlistment of the persons mentioned,
| and which were approved of by her Majesty
| government, were to take place within the United
States; whereas the sentence, according to its OBJ
vious meaning, relates TO foreigners and British
| subjects resident in the United States
The word lin" has reference to the place where
| they resided and not to the place where they
| were to be enlsted and If any doubt could arise
in this point, that doubt must have been removed
Dy the concluding passage, which adverts to the
neutrality law OF the United States and saws that
| Her Majesty's government would, on no account
run any risk of infringing that law. This con-
struction of the passage under consideration does
not appear to have occurred to Mr. Marcy at the
time when the dispatch of the undersigned of the
| 10Th April was communicated to him BY Mr.. Lum-
ley. So far from it, Mr.. Marcy expires sed to Mr.
Lumley his satisfaction with that dispatch and de-
| sired that he might be furnished with a copy in
order that he might show 1t to his colleagues
The undersigned must also further observe that
MI, Marcy in the same dispatch misconceiyed the
meaning ofthe expression used by the undersigned
| in making the offer above referred to- that any
man who might have been enlisted within the
and sent back. The reference there made to Bri.
tish law was merely intended to indicate that If
the persons had been enlisted under circumstances
supposed, such enlistment had been at variance
with British aswell as American law but the un-
dersigned did not mean that respect would not be
paid In the discharge of such to the principles
of the law of the United States alone should that
law appear to have been violated in single case
Such being the state of this matter, it is obvious
that the British government cannot Justly be
charged with any disregard to the policy OF the
United States, nor with any disrespect of their
sovereign rights by taking into the Queens militia.
ry service any person who, having come from the
United States freely and without contract or en-.
gagement into British territory, might there be
willing to enlist
Lord Clarendon then reviews the charges against
each Consul as to the commission of the act and
expresses his willingness rather to believe their
| assertions of innocence than the witnesses who
testified against them. Clarendon thus concludes
1.-THE undersigned has now had the satisfaction
of communicating to the Government of the Uni
ted States the statements and declarations of her
Majesty rs minister at Washington, and of her Ma.
jestys eonsus at Cincinnati, Philadelphia and New
York as TO the conduct imputed to them The Go.
vernment of the United States had been led to sup.
pose the laws and sovereign rights of the United
States had not been respected by her Majesty's
Government, and, relying upon evidence deemed
to be trustworthy, they believed that the law and
these rights had been infringed by the British
agents. If such had been the case, the Govern.
ment of the United States would have been enti.
tied to demand, and her Majesty's Government
would not have hesitated to afford the most ample
satisfaction for no dscredit can attach to the
frank admission and complete reparation of an un.
questionable wrong - =. :
Her Majesty's Government, however uneauiyo.
caiiy disciaim any intention, either to infringe the
laws or to disregard the policy or not to respect
the sovereign rights of the United States and the
Government of the United States will now. for the
tirst time, learn that her Majesty,s minister At
Washington, and her Majestys consuls at New
York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, solemny affirm
that they have not committed any of the acts ia,
puted to them. The Government of the limited
States will now also learn for the first time that an
opportunity Of weighing the declaratio OF four
gentlemen of unimpeached honor and integrity
against evidence upon which no reliance ought to
be placed The undersigned cannot but express
the earnest hope of her Majesfy's Government.
that the explanations and assurances NAV prove
satisfactory 20 the Government of the United
States, and effectually remove any misapprehen-
sion which may have hitherto existed, and he can.
not doubt that such result viii afford as much
pleasure TO the Government of the United States
as to that OF her Majestys by putting an end to the
difference which has been deeply regretted by her
Maiesty's Government. for there are no two eour-
tries which are bound by stronger ties or higher