The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-02-01
Correspondence Between England
and America About British Neu.
tr0lifv.

and America About British Neu.
trality.
The Northern papers publish the diplomatic cor
respondence between Seward and Russell upon
she subject OF the cotton loan, Confederate cruis
ers, steam rams, sc. To show how completely
Enc'and has been buIiied by the Yankees In this
matter we print portion of the letters With
such timidity as Is shown by the British Govern
ment, We may well be satisfied that nothing has
been further from its intentions during this war
than the "reco.niiion" of the Confederate States
TIE COTTON LOAN.
Mr.. sepdrd 10 Mr.. Adams.
DEPARTMENT oF SrATE)
Washington, April 10, 1863. !
This Government has heard with
surprise and regret that loan has been made in
London to the insurgents, with conditions of re
curity and payment openly hostile to the United
States, and 1t has good reasons for assuming that
most all of the moneys thus loaned are Hais 10
British subjects residing in Great Britain for ad-
In money, labor, arms. military stores. and
supplies used in fitting ont those hostile cxpedi-
tons in violation tf the Queens proclamation and
OF the enlistment acts Of Great Britain, well rs
OF treaties and the law of nations. The Presidcn;
docs not for a moment believe that her Majesty
Government have lent or Will lend any sanction O.
approval 10 these proceedings Of her aaiesty; :
snbjees but he regrets that he is -unatie TO per
ccive tina, any part of those transactions mimi
cal the United states, ana apparently so uHfyer-
sally kroWn in Great Britain, have arrested the
attention of her Maesty's Government, or encou1
tered any opposition, or even any manifestation of
its disa pprobation censure.
The ioan made ny EuYoDean capitalists is a direct
engagement with the a,ued insurgents who have
assumed to control, supply, and deliver cotton for
the reimbursement OF the money advanced, with
inter st. You will give notice to tatl Russell! that
this transaction necessarily brirGa TO an end all
concess:ous. Of whatever form, tha, have been
made Ivy this Government for mitigating or allevi-
ane the rgor OF the blockade in regard to the ship
ment OF cotton and tobacco. Nor will any title OF
any person, whether citizen of the United States
or subject of foreign Power, TO any cotton or
mercha ndize, which title is derive from through
any ptetsnded insurgent an,horityor other gent
no tile To the United States n respected by this
Government.
II would be to cvince a want of frankness and
gaot faith if we should fail to inform Great Britain
that in this country the proceedings To which !
have referred have come 10 he regarded, equally
hV The people and the Government, as Tending 10
compiitate the relations between the two countries
in such manner as td render II dllcu't, ii not nj
together impossible, - maintain and preserve
friendship between them-a result which the
President believes il "a far from bcing desired by
Great Britain from being the policy or tlif.
wish of the United Stntes. After The resort to TIN;
courts of the United Kingdom which the President
has specially authorized aS a sequel 10 the ahIc-
patiOns and remonstrance Waich You nave maze,
thus far without any effective result, this GoverH
me,t is not aware OF ANY o.iier measures remain
ing within its power 10 arrest the tendency have
at scTbed and to avert the caiatSitirs nave dcpfe-
Gated, II IL he in the power Ot The RrtiSii toV-
efnmrnt to suggest anything further that il may be
thought possible aud proper for the Inied states
to do with tiiai view, the suggestion viii be re
ccivrd and considered With the utmost cahdof and
respect.
You will in such manner shall seem most
proper, bring these views to the knowledge Of her
Majesty 5 Government.
Earl Russell t. Nj. .fd1mS.
FuRElos OFFICE, April ., 1868
Sir-iIer Maiesty's Government have not failed
TO consider, with The attention il deserved ihe let
ter which YOU addressed TO On the I1th utimo,
in reply to my letter OF the 9th ultime, Oh The sub
ject of III. Intercepted correspondence which you
had alleged went 10 show deliberate attempt 10
establish, within the limits Of the United Kingdom
system of action in direct Hostility % the Govern
ment of the United States.
have now the honor to observe to you that,
.yIiie Won withhold your acuuiCS in the Opin-
ion exn,essen bv ,le of that spondeuce. a.,d
state that YOU shall transmit copy oi my NOTE,
with proinund regret, to your G0Yernment, yon.
nevertheless, do not conuover tie principal posi-
tions assumed in that note.
You do not deny, first that it is lawin for her
Najesty's subjects 70 lend money on securities or
Otherwise either bel!igerent, or secondly, that
it is also lawful to SELL 10 either beiligerent, muDi
!Ons Of war.
UDon this subject beg to call to your notice that
no longer ago than the 20th of LIST November, in
answer 10 the remonsirance of Mexico against an
alleged organized system In the United states OF
aiding France in the war In which she lis engaged
with that republic, but in which the United States
are neutral, Mr.. Seward rep led by this, among
other citations:
later quoting from Mr. Webster's dispatch to
Mr.. Thompson, Earl Russell ptoceeds1:
II seems clear, en- the Principle enunciaied en-
these authorities, that, except on The ground of any
proved violation Of the Foreign Enlistment act,
her Majesty's Government caEnot Interfere with
commercial dealings between British subjects ana
the 20 styled Confederate States, whether the Sub
ject OF these dealings be money Or contraband
goods, or even ships for warke purposes.
hfT. adams 10 Earl RuSseH.
LEiATIoN OF fHE UNITED STATss,
LONDON, April 8, 1863.
- | have given to sll the passages present
ed by y.ur lordship the same profound attention
which habitualiy payt0 everything trom the same
source. 1 cannot, however, Perceive that they
have any effect III disturbing the positions which
have been heretofore assumed by GIySclf. The
sale and transfer, hv neutral, of arms, of muni
tOns of war, an even OF vessels -ofWdr, 10 4 bel
liJerent country, not su ject to bio kadc at the
time, az purely co nmercial transaction decided
by these authorities not 10 be unlawful. They go
not Il stzp further, and precisely to that extent
have myself taken no exception TO tue doctrine.
But the is changed when beliigeren is
shown to be taking measures to establish a system
of operations in a neutral ~, with the intent
to carry war from its ports, much i'm the same
way that il would do, Ii 1t could, from its own ter
ri;ory, when i; appoints agents residing In that
country Tor the purpose of borrowing money to be
applied to the fitting out Of hostile armameUts in
those very ports, and when it appoints and sends
out agents 10 superintehd in those port the con
sifuciing, equippng and arm ng OF ships of war,
we'll as the eniieng OF The subjects OF the neutral
country, issue forth fer the purpose Of carrying
on hostilities on the oceap.
These are the points to which desire to call
ynir ordsbip's attention in the inerceptt dis
patches. | affirmed tha; they went to show "A sys
icm of operations to the extent thus designated 1
did not affirm that they absolutely proved the fact.
But did mean to be understood as affirming them
to furnish strong corroborative evidence to sustain
all Other proofs which have been in the Practice of
iaying before your I0rdshp for long time past of
the abuses made of her Majestys ncut al territory
for tn conduct OF the war directly from her ports,
without the interv, ntion Of time even for The yes
sels to gain the semblance of national chaiaoter.
LAIRD's RAMS
Mr. Adams 10 EaYl Russell
LOCATION CT THE UNITED STATEs,
London, Sept. 3, 1863.
NV Lord: have the honor to transmit copies OF
further depasitions relating TO the launching and
other preparation Of the second of the two vessels
of war from the yard Of Messrs. Laird, AT Birken
head, concerning which ii has already been my
duty td make most serious representa-
ti0ns to her Majesty's Government.
belieye there is not any reasonable ground for