The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-05-16
SATURDAY MORNING. MAY le. 1863.
England and tIc Unitei statss.

The trouble between the government Of Her
Majesty Queen Victoria aud His Enineucs,
Abraham tho First, do not approach adjust
ment. j. viii DO observed by the telegrsphic
news, every day adds fuel to the flame .! ILL
feeling, wAich fans the popular heart Of both
countries. Tho Louisville Journal Of the 9Th
has an instance, which has not reached us
through other quarters. his stated 40 follows,
by that sheet in an article on tho subject :
Tho London Times has found something else
to growl about It appears That some mer-
chants, wishing 10 send a British ship TO Mex
leo, furnished our Minister, Mr. Adams, with
proof that the cargo was not to be sent to any
point where It could reach the rebels through
Texas, but was a bona ide mercantile tIansac-
ton, and upon these grounds requested let
Ter from Minister Adams to Admiral Wilkes
notifying him Of the facts, 30 that the vessel
might not be detained OF confiscaie1 by cur
cruisers in TIC Gulf Of Mexico, and also for
the purpose of assisting tho owners in procur-
ing insurance. This letter was shown to the
underwriters, and when its exietence was
known, the London Times thought the occa
sion an admirable one to initiate the strategy
Of that cunning mollusl, The cuttle-hsh, and by
an inky infusion to render tuUbid tho waters,
wherein float the Alabama, and the numerous
vessels fitting out for Jeff Davis, the Emperor
Of China, SO that The perfdy Of Albion might
not be so clearly seem Mr. Adam9 certainly
contemplated no evasion nor any violation Of
the neutrality laws Of Great Britain or he
would not have exposed himself to the Ger
tainty Of detection, bur his intention was an
act Of courtesy, and had the request Of the
merchants been refused tho Minister would
unquestionably have been denounced for chur-
lishness in not stating that he was satisfied
the cargo was not intended to violate our
blockade. But the Times must throw of its
secretions to conceal British evasione of neu.
trality, and therefore it cries ont that English
merchants cannot 90 40 suppliants to foreign
minister's for license to transact business,
when il seems pretty clear that they only
went to ask a favor. There is a deal Of alb.
surdity in the position Of the Times and it's
roar Of pretended indignation, when it is re-
membeled that scores Of vessels have sailed
from British ports with articles contraband Of
war for the Confederate use, with perfect i'm.
punity, and this has taken place while Earl
Russell caracd that Her Majesty's Govern
ment was acting with strict impartiality and
honorable neutrality Bat when this solitary
vessel clears for Mexican port, aud it is sus-
pected ts cargo was composed of munitions
for the Moxjcaas to re2ol their French inya-
ders, the whole fountains Of deep denunciaion
are broken up and Numbered upon the head
of MIR. Adams. The motive is plainly appa
rent. The British Government will connive
with its merchants to make trade with the
rebels in arms against the United States be-
cause it thinks VIC are not exactly 10 position
to resent the insult from the fact that our
hands are full Of our domestic quarrels But
when aid is offered TO Mexico, by the same
agencies which time and again have been de.
clared legal and strictly neutral, and France is
to be tho sufferer by the act, then John Bull is
vrtuously indignant, for Louis Napoleon has
no war, foreign or civil, to prevent him from
rosonting in the most summary manner any
thing IN The shape Of assisting his enemy.
This conduct is characteristic OF the bullying
nation which has twice in It's history received
caatigadon at the hands Of the United States, "
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