The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-10-15
The Withdrawal of MIR. Mason from
England.

Inc HItnuTaWai OF MI. Mason from
England.
The hde1, the London organ of the seces
sionists, publishes the text of the letter il
which MIR. Mason announces the termina-
lion of the Confederate mission to England
NIB. MAsoN TO EARL RUSSELL.
"a UPPER SETMOURST., PORTLAND SQUARE,,
LONDON, September 81, 1868.
The Right Honorable Earl Russall, Her Majesty
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: - 81,
My LORD: In a dispatch from the Secre-
tary of State Of the Confederate States OF
America, dated 4th day of August last, and
now just received, 1 am instructed to con-
slider the mission which brought me to Eng
land as at an end, and l am directed to
| withdraw at once from this country.
The reasons for terminating the mission,
are set forth in an extract from the dispatch
which 1 have the honor to communicate
herewith
"The President believes that the Govern
ment of Her Majesty has determined to de-
cline the overtures made through you for
establishing by treaty friendly relations be-
tween the two Governments, and eE tertains
no intention of receiving you as the accred-
tied Minister of this Government near the
British Court.
~ nder these circumstances your contin-
ued residence in London is neither condu-
Give to the interests nor consistent with the
dignity of this Government, and the Presi-
dent therefore requests that you consider
your mission at an end, and that you with
draw with your Secretary from London
Having made known to your Lordship, on
my arrival here, the character and purposes
of the mission intrusted to me by my Gov
eminent, / have deemed it due to courtesy
thus to make known to the Government of
Her Majesty its termination, and that l
shall, as directed, at once withdraw from
England.
have the honor to be, your Lordship's
very obedient servant,
[Signed] J. NJ. MASON.
On this the Lnde1 makes the following
comment. Supposed to be 'inspiredO setting
forth several reasons for the withdrawal !
which are not embodied in Mr.. Mason's |
letter:
Mr.. Slidell, we understand, will remain |
n France as special commissioner to tina.
Government, nor is at all contemplated to
terminate that mission; and yet France,
equally with England, has so far refrained
rom entering into ipterna rational relations
With the Confederate States There must
Do, then, some overriding cause for the diff
erence thus made between France and
England In the termination OF the mission
o one and not to the other. To those at all
.onversant with what is passing in the
Southern States, this is no mystery. Mr.
'lidell has been received and uniformly
reated by the Government of France with
very mark of consideration and respect for
be Government he represents.
There may be grave reasons regarding r
olicy or public law why France like Eng r
md may not deem it incumbent as yet to
,cognize those States as an independent t
olitical power; but their representative has r
cen freely admitted to every form of inter-
purse with the Government of France, to
ersonal interviews with the Emperor when :,
yer he has asked for them, with immedi- -
10 access to all or any of the Ministry, at u
-st request This would indeed seem an !,
Urinary courtesy to gentleman in his posi- =
on; the refusal of it would be more than a -"
scourtesy; it would be an actual indignity =
those whose representative he is. In IL
Dgland Mr.. Mason has been held by the
oVernment in the very opposite position. - -
IS correspondence with the Foreign Office u
i'd before Congress at Richmond, we know :,
I'm the Southern press, produced feeling q;
deep and universal indignation. Itshow- "
that, with the exception of single and :.
NAL interview with Earl Russell, on his IL
ival, appointed at his residence and not =,
the Foreign Office, he had bee adm tilted a. a.
no intercourse whatever W
"