Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-09
UnfrfendIy Attitude of England to-
wards LfneOln,s GoVernment-It
will not allow the PriVateers to be
treated as Pirates.

UnfriendIy Attitude of England to-
wards LfncoIn,s Governmental
will not allow the Privateers TO be
treated as Pirates.
The Northern press is bitter on the late
news from ngland. The Cincinnati CONNER
ciaL thus refers to it:
The debate in the British House of Lords.
which we published in full yesterday, is GER
tainly the most unfavCrable sign yet of the
attitude of the British Government towards
the Just side of this great struggle. The
Lord Chancellor went further than bad been
previously reported, in his outrageous adyO-
cacy of the rights of piracy. He went so far
as to pronounce that the United States has
no right to punish British privateers in JEFF.
Davis service as pirates! He added that the
war of the Confederate States against the
North was just one, and their right as bel
ligerelts was admitted" His words are:
mo one "a. e., no English subject), ought
to be regarded as pirate for acting under
commission from a State admitted to be en-
titled to the exercise of belligerent rights,
and carrying on what might be called a jus
tam 5ellum. Anybody dealing with man
under those circumstances as a pirate, and
putting him to death, would be guilty of
murder"
Lord Kingsdown followed the Lord Chan
cellor, and announced that England bad re-
cogniZed the seeding States as body pos
sessing the rights of belligerent;" that the
''extravagant order of the Washington Gov
eminent in reference to privateering was a
mere brueBa fulnlen;" or, if not, that it twas
a piece a barbarity which would raise an
outcry throughout the whole civilized world"
Earl Granville, a member of the Cabinet
threw in his sneer at the blockade of the
Southern coast. asserting that "mere paper
blockades would not be recognized" and
commented upon the agreement of Paris as
not effecting change in International law,
excepting as regards those powers which sig
nified their acceptance of IL" thus ignoring
the last clause of the Paris treaty, by which
those who might hereafter" accept it, were
placed on par with those who bad done so.
If those peers who adhere to the Palmer
ston Ministry were thus explicit in their
ouast-hostility to the United States, the lords
of The opposition were still more so. Il ap-
prehend," said the Earl of Derby, "that, if
there is one thing clearer than another, it is
that, by the law of nations, priEateering is
not piracy; that no enactment on the part of
any one nation can make that piracy as re-
CARDS the subject of another country which
is not piracy by the law of nations, or by
the law of that country. The Northern
States, therefore, must not be allowed to en-
terrain that opinion. 1t is very important.
be added, shat Her Majesty's Government
should. not commit themselves to the doc
trine that the United States are to lay down
the principle of a universal blockade, and
that blockade would be recognized by Her
Majesty's Government" Lord Chelmsford
commented upon the serious step taken by
the British Cabinet, in "admitting the Con-
federate States to be entitled to the rights of
belligerents," but it was clear that 'South-
ern privateers could not be treated as pi-
rates"
The following. from the London CORES
pondent of the New York Herald in this con-
nection, will be read with interest:
This country is alarmed for the first time
since the American war opened. There is
this week a feeling of alarm and anxiety, and
this feeling has given rise to plans that are
of great interest to the American Govern
meDt.
The Queens proclamation has been issued,
and in entire good faith all loyal subjects OF
her Majesty are enjoined not to join either of
the belligerents, and they are assured if they
do so their government will not interfere in
their behalf in the event of their vessels be-
ing captured or themselves made prisoners.
So far so good.
Now for the alarm: If the war is pro-
traeted even tYelsemonth, and the crop Of