The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-03-03


Maiestys Government the just claim which,
tu their opinion the Government Of the Don.
federate States has at this time to a recogni-
ton as Government de facto; whether its In.
ternal peace or Its territory, its popu lation,
Its great resources for both domestic and for.
etRa comm cree, and its 20 wer to maintain It,
self. are Considered; or whether your lord
ship shall Is Ike into consideration the neces-
sity OF commercial relations being esta blishe
win 1t, with view to the preservation of
vast interests of the commerce of England.
II. however, In the opinion Of her Britannia
Majesty's Government. the Confederate States
the nations Of the earth, the undersigned can
only assure your lordship that, while such
an announcement will be received with sur.
prise BY the Government they represent, and
while that Government is to be left to con.
tend for interests which, it thinks, are as i'm
portant to commercial Europe as to itself,
without even friendly countena nee from
other nations, its citizens will buckle them.
| selves to the great tasG before them with a
vigor and determination that will Justify the
undersigned In having pressed the question
and when peace shall have been made their
Government w;il at least feel that it will not
be justly responsible for the vast quantity of
blood which shall have been shed, nor for the
great and widespread suffering which SO
prolonged conflict Will have entaiied upon
millions of the human race, both In the East.
srn as we'll as upon the Mort American con-
ttnent W. L YAScEY
p. ROsr,
A. UpLRr MANN.
BARL RUssELL's REPLY.
FoRBIaN OPRIoE, Aug. "A, 1851.
The undersigned has had the honor to re.
ceve the letter Of the l4th inst, addressed to
him by Messrs Yapcey, Rost, and Mani, on
hehalf Of the styled Confederate States Of
North America.
The British Government do not pretend In
any WY to pronounce judgment upon the
questions In debate bs tween the United States
aud their adveI sariss in North America; the
British Government can onlv regret that
thesediferences have I'M nfOrtunately been sub
nitted to the erbltrament of arms. Her
Majesty has considered this con test Us cousu-
tuling a civil war, and her Majesty has by
her royal proclaim alton, declared her inteu-
ton to preserve u strict neutrality between
the contending parties in that war.
Her Majesty will strictly perform the du-
ties which belong to neutral. Her Majesty
cannot undertake to determine by anticipa-
ton what may be the issue Of the contest,
ncr can she acknowledge the irdepend ndec ce OF
the nine States which are now combined
against the President and Congress OF the
United States untit the fortune of arms or
the more peaceful m ode OF NJ tgotiatinn shall
kave more clearly deterru in ed the respec tive
lesitions of the two bsiligerents
= Her Majesty can, in the mean time, only
1 express a hope that some adjustment satis-
factory to both parties may be come to-
without the calamities which must ensue In
the event OF an embittered and protrac ted
conflict. RUSSELL
Following this is a long correspondence on
the Trent affair, the Nash Vile and tho Tus-
carora, and other matters with which our
readers are familiar. In a brief CONNIE tavy
upon the whole, the Lon don Nexs, remarks:
The bare description of these Blue Books
nables the reader to form some idea Of the
constant danger of ignition which the Am
| selves as a neutral State as if no broad At.
| lantic lay between US an the burning house
| beyond.
KARL DERBY ON RECOGNITION.
We get the following from the New York
| Herald of the 2sth February:
In the House OF Lords on the 7th instant
| the Earl Of Derby satd he was not much in
| the habit Of occupying the time OF their lord
| ships with matters personal to himself, or
| with making observations in reference to the
reports Of his speeches or those OF other noble
| lords in that house. The fact was hs very
| seldom read the reports either Of his own
| speeches or Of other speeches which he heard
| in the house. But he happened to look
l to the report in the Times newspaper of
| what he addressed to their lordships yes.
| terday, q and there was one point In it
| to which he could not help adverting He
| the report, which he believed was not so ac-
| curnte ss reports IL that journal generally
| were, and he only alluded to the one he had
| men ed because 1t attributed to him exactly
\
| snce to the recognition of the Southern Con
| federacy, the Times reported him to say that
| the time had nearly arrived when her Nj jes-
| ty's Government ought to be called upon 10
recognize the successful revolt of those Con-
federate States. Now, what he did say was
| that in his judgment the time had not arriv-
! ed when her Majesty's Government was call
| cd upon to recognize tho independence of tbs
Southern States, and he added that nj th 0 Ugh
| tbs practice of her Majest"'s Government
| was to recognize any de tacto Government that
had succeeded in establishing itself, he did
| not think the resistance Of the Souther. States
had been SO complete and SO successful rs 20
Justify them in recognizing the independence
| of State which had not yet shown the pow
| Or OF securing and maintaining its own indie
| pendence.
| LETTRR FROM COMMANDER sENxEs7c The EDITOR
OF THB LONDON NEWS
Sir: An article in the Daily Ntns review ing
the rights and duties OF beiligerents and Ieu
| trails, has recently come under my observa.
tion, in which the following expressions oc-
/ cur:
! that DO tn the Sumter and the Nashville have
| grossly violated the laws OF ciyilizad war
| fare, by burning merchant ships to the wa
| ter's edge, insead OF carrying them before g
/ prize court. Their conduct is certai o ly much
| more like that of pirates-hoa,es Aumas.i gene
ris, as the commander OF the Sumter says
| Nor Is 1t clear that u community which sar c.
| tioHs such barba rous proceed uGs deserves tc
| be treated with the same consideration which
| is universally accorded to thoss who then
| selves observe theiaws Of civilized warfare
Now, the above remarks are exceedingly
| unjust-EOt that l suppose you intended In.
justice, but you have not rightly appreciated
| the position in which we OF the Confederate
States have been placed by these "civi ized'
fnations whose rule Of warfare you say hai
| beer violated. Great Britain has acknow
| lodged US as a belligefent, This ackno wedg
| ment gives us all the rights Of war equall,
with the other party. One OF the most es
sentiai Of these rights on the high seas as ths
right0f destroying the ehemy's commerce
and thus disiblin 4 him from carrying ON ths
war a right which Great BItain, In all hel
wars, has exercised to its fullest extent, anc
| with terrible effect upon her enemies AIC
when she has cot found it convenient to sene
| her prizes in 20 her own ports she has had lha
over weeniEg influence with the nations o
the earth which mas enabled her to send thsN
| into neutral ports, and there to have the
| condemned by her own prize courts.
| The ports Of the Confederate States wer'
| blockaded on or al ut the LIST OF June, 1851
~ to sS
and Spain, and the lesser maritime Powers o
Europe, all issued proclamauons, definini
| their positions in the war. In these procie
nations they prohibited belligerent cruiser
rom bringing their prizes into their ports
| except In case OF necessity. md In that even
both the cruisers and their prizes were to de
| part within twenty four hours. In this stat
| Of facts, how can 1t be ir sisted that we shsl
| send our prizes in to port for adjudication =
| Into whose ports shall We send thsmi w,
| cannot send them into our own ports, for the,
l are blockadsd at least 20 far blockaded a. d
renaer ii difficult for ordinary sail ships Il
| enter them We cannot send them 10 to AM
OF the ports Of those "civilizsd" n .tions VIII
are 80 shocked At the barbarity Of our burn
| ing themf What then shall we do will
tn mt They are our lawful prizes, cap
tured, says Europe, by the cruisers OF re
| eognized de tacso Government. Shall we ie
them got This would deprive us Of our rish
| Of capture, or render null that right, Whicl
is the same thing. And. cAa this BE- " hat Inn
partial Europe intended when 1t penned it
pr0clamattons
i II 10 readily admitted that III usual ant
more proper course 10, a. you ssy, tor ac' ut