The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-10-15

has been rendered necessary by the repre-
hensble conduct of the British Consular
agents, you are requested to take an early Oc
caslOn for giving such explanation to NJ.
Drnuyn de L'Huys as will obviate all risk of
misapprehension.
| am, sir, respectfully,
Your ob't serv't,
J. p. BENJAMIN,
Secretary Of State.
Hon. John Slidell, Commissioner, &c, &C.,
Paris, France.
MR. BENJAMIN TO MR. FULLARTON.
Mr.. Benjamin, writing Oct. 9Th, 1863,
to Mr.. Fullarton, British Consul at Sa-
vannah, refers to the correspondence
which has passed between that Consul
and Gov. Brown, of Ga, {already pub
lished by the press and says:
1t thus appears that the Consular Agents
OF the British Government have been i,l-
structed not to cOnfine themselves to an ap-
peal for redress, either to courts of justice
or to this Government, whenever they may
conceive that grounds exist for complaint
against the Confederate authorities in their
treatment of British subjects, ian appeal
which has in no case been made without re-
ceiying just consideration but that they as
sumo the power of determining for them
selves whether enlisted soldiers of the Con
federacy are properly bound to its service;
that they even arrOgate the right to inter
fere directly with the execution of the Con
federate laws, and to advise soldiers of the
Confederate armies to throw down their
arms in the face Of the enemy.
This assumption OF jurisdiction 10y foreign
officials within the territory Of the Confed-
ecacy, and this encrOachment OH its sovereign
ty, cannot be tolerated for a moment, and
the President has had no hesitation in di-
recting that all Consuls and Consular Agents
OF the British Government be notified that
they can no longer be permitted to exercise
their functions, or even to reside within the
limits of the Confederacy.
am directed, therefore, by the President
to communicate to you this order. that you
promptly depart from the Confederaty, and
that IN the meantime you cease to exercise
any consular functions within its limits.
Err. BENJAMIN TO mr.. MASON.
Writing June 18th, 1863, Mr.. Benja-
min tells Mr.. Mason that Mr.. Cridland,
"who had occasionally acted as Consul
in Richmond during the temporary alb
sence of Consul Moore" called at the
State Department on the 18th of May,
and assured him that he was going to
Mobile to attend uncgicialty to some
business affecting the British Govern
ment there, which had been left unpro-
tected by the withdrawal of Consul Ma
gee, and adds:
1 was, therefore, quite surprised at receiv-
ing from the Secretary Of the Navy official
communication Of q telegram received by
him from Admiral Buchanan, informing the
Secretary that Mr.. Cridland had been otii.
cially introduced to him by the French Con
sui as Acting English Consul at Mobile. and
had shown the Admiral zap official document
signed by Lord Lyons, appointing him Act.
ing English Consul at Mobile"
Mr.. Benjamin then proceeds to give a
full history of the shipment Of the
$155,O0O in specie from Mobile to
pay the Alabama State debt inter.
est in England, and comments upon
the course of the British Govern.
nYent in removing Mr.. Magee for forward
ing it. IL the British Government holds
that Alabama is still one Of the United
States, then the United States had nc
right to prevent its payment Of foreign
debt; but il, on the contrary. the State
of Alabama be regarded (as in right and
fact she really is an independent State
engaged in war against the United States
as foreign enemy, then the President
cannot refrain from observing that tn,
action Of Her Britannia Majesty's Minis
ter at Washington sayored on this occa.
sion rather Of unlriendly cooperation
with an enemy than Of just obseryanc,
Of neutral obligations. Mr.. Benjami.
concludes:
The President hss. In the facts alreadv re