New-York daily tribune., 1865-10-26
ENGLAND Held Responsible for the
pepredations Ct the Rebel
Cruisers.
Arbitration Declined by England
England Proposes a Joint
Commission.

~ c0Nthlnt u chbbHN V'A'''P""Ne"NN p''"NN' ~'''
Adams snd Ear Russell in reference to the claims made
\, the American Go, ernment upon the British Govern
men, for compensation for the damage done 10 Amer
ssn shipping BY the Rebel cruisers.
ogsr LETTER PROM MR.. ApAMs-ESGLAND HELD
RESPONSIBLE.
The fret letter is from Mr.. Adams, and is dated
Aprl7 1868 1t incloses letter from Mr.. Monroe
enitec States Consul at Rio Janeiro, describing the
sspture o. seyers American ships by the Shenandoah
Mr. Adams also saws hst be has Of similar depre
istions committed near Melbourne by the same ship
he then goes On to say:
Were there any reasons 10 believe that the opera
hons carried in tie ports OF her Maiestys Kingdom
aud It's dependencies to maintain and extend this sys
kmaiio depreciation upon the commerce OF friendly
teOple had been materially relaxed or prevented
Ihoud be under the painful necessity OF announcing
h. your lordshp the fact that my Government cannot
tYOd entsing upon the Government OF Great Britain
Me responsibility for this damage 1t is impossible to
te insensibe TO The injury That may Yet be impending
Rom the part which the British steamer City of Rich
ond hns had in being suffered to transport with i'm
buoHy from the port OF London and supplies. TO
kaCe them on board the freneh-bnit steau.Tam 0lin
be alias Stoerkodder, alias StOnewal, which has
throogh continuously fraudulent process succeeded
b. deluding sevcra, Governments Of Europe. and in
tecaptng from this hemisphere on its erand Of mischief
be the other.
Al aIO by no means insensibe to the efforts which
pave srecdy been made and are yet making by her
halestys Government TO put stop to sneh o0agcs ia
His kingdom and It's dependencies Neither can l
permit myself to doubI toe favorable disposition " her
Ministers TO maintain aIicable relations with the Gov
sIDment which represent
While perfectly ready TO bear testimony to the
promptness with which all the numerous remonstrances
and which IL has been nv painful duty
keyeofoe 20 submit have been and ATTENDED 70 by
6oar ordshp II Is at tie same time impossible for
~ dispute the faet that the hostile policy which it Is the
sbc Of al this labor to prevent has not ony not been
checked, bat is even now going into execution with
more and more complete success.
f1asp olto,l fVuQt I nae mot ,pt IN
brdsb Is substantially tbe destruction of the whole
ggeY lie navigation belonging to tue people o. tie
II would most respectfully invite your ,ortsbip to
produce in the history Of the world parallel TO
This OF endurance by nation Of injury done 70 IL by
another without bringing on the gravest Of complica
fons. That il this such event has followed
tss been owing. in the main. 10 fu conviction that
Her Majesys Government has never been animated by
any aggressive disposition toward the United States
bat on the contrary that IL has steadily endeay0red 10
dcOuntnance and in measure 20 check the injurious
and maleyolent operations Of many OF her subjects
But while anxious to do fu justice TO the amcabe in
tentODs Of Her Msjesty's Ministers. and on that
eo1It 10 forbeaT from 10 any but the most
friendly and earnest appeals 20 reason and TO their
sense Of justice for the recthcaoD OF these wrongs 1t
impossible 10 resist the conviction that heretofore their
measures, however well intended have never proved
effective 10 remedy the evil complained Of Prompt TO
sequit them of any design am reluctantly compelled
10 acknowledge the belief that practically this evil had
fs origin in the first step taken which be
garded by my Government in any other light than pre-
cpHaie' OF acknowledging persons as a beilgerent
power on the ocean before they had single vessel of
their Own 70 snow floating upon IT, The result Of that
proceeding las been that the power IN question. far
can oe entitled TO the name Of belligerent the
oesn al all was actually created in consequence Of the
recognition and not before and all that il has subse
gaenty attained OF such position has been through the
oo me subjects OF the very country which gave 1t
Tie shelter OF that title in advance. Neither is the
HDoe case stated even nOw The results equally show
That the abty 10 continue these operations with sue
during the whole Of four years that the War
exclusively M the enppnV
tunsy make of this granted right OF belligerent
in the courts and the ports and harbors Of the very
power that furnished the elements OF its existence in the
outset In other words the Kingdom OF Great Britain
cannot but be regarded by the Government have the
honor to represent not only having given birth TO
this naval belgerent but also having nursed and
maintained 1t TO the present hour"
The letter concludes by asking when, in view Of the
plseteal REDUCTION OF all the ports heretofore tenn
porary d by the insurgents the United States navy
VIII be ee fted to fall and Tree pratique in British
waters.
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RieL BUSHELS RTPLY.
-Ty5.. iep.es 70 the letter on May 4. After re-
esytIatng the heads Of Mr. Adamss letter be goes on
70 s that the real question 10 not what are the losses
American subjects have suffered but whether in db-
cait and extra binary circumstances the Government
Other M3sty have performed faithfully and honestly
the duties which international Gw and their own mum
eipa law imposed upon them" He then goes 20 re-
mind Mr.. ADAMS that al the outbreak OF the war. on
the 18Th April, lsCl the President Of the United States
proclaimed blockade OF the southern ports thus in
terruptng the Of neuTas and this he could only
DO on tie ground that the Southern States were beg'
rent. Her Mojestys Government must either Gc'
knowledge the blockade or refuse to do 30 and,
es the more friendly course 10 the United
States t1Jk the former step They could
tot therefore, treat the Southern vessels as
pirates; nor indeed had the United States done other
Nse than all persons taken prisoners of war.
toe recognition Of behgereDcy was not, Therefore pre-
elpietei 1t was simply adopting the course taken by
We United States Government. His Iordshp then goes
70 deal with the question whether Great Britain has
performed faithfully The duties incumbent upon her IN
ehoeaNOriIg ~ prevent vessels leaving our ports to
prey upon the United States merchant navy. lie oon'
saos iast they did Beginning with the Alabama, be
ole uhts 70 show thai the Government nj acted honest
ana With the desire 10 fulfill their duties In support
~ las he mentions sentence In q dispatch from Ar.
Seward dated August lJ. 1863 in which, writing about
,ue Vleo and The Alabama, he said "lOu viii, ON
proper occasion, make known 20 Earl Russell the salts
hcuon which tue President has derived from the i1st
sAo lneud!y proceedings Of the British Government In
"safd 10 these subjects"
Ear Russell then tries TO prove that in the war OF the
oou'h American States against Spain and Portugal the
'led States adhered to the principles concern.
TIE rights Of neGtrsls those prosessed by England
s1nnS the Rebellion. The address Of President Mon.
roe on TIE South American insurrecton referred TO
as en- argument against the charges brought against
england on account Of her alleged sympathy with the
Rebels
Earl Russell thsn points 10 the vigilance Of Her
sAlestJs Government in respect TO the Mersey rams
"Ha respect to the Shenandoah he says Io evidence
her character was offered TO them by Mr.. Adams or
s'y one else. Had such evidence been given, prompt
senon would have been taken. As to the sending out
Afms TO the Shenandoah and the Olinde Earl Russell
s no laws could have stopped it, and be clenehes the
srgumsn, thus,
In the words Of Mr.. Adams, In 1915, For such
lS. no nation can In principle por does in practice,