Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-11-09
NOVEMBER O(''l, il5Iil ,lI,! 7R-I 3, 1865,

NOYiEMBER l'I4 ,I' 4E q 1855, n. n. Il,
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!, / LFrom the London shipping Gazette, lath.j
0mcinli C9rHcspOntlence ON tn,
~ ,s5il M, VI Shenandoall. ,,., G7.,.fr..
a cogr1reslpodndenees gr1rseylpdd between Earl i,ussel ,l
and Mf, Adams, the American, Minister, q, d
the subject Of the depredations Of the Shena,
doah, was published last night in supple
mont to the London Gazette. The first com
nuhication, dated April I, 1865, is from Mr.
Adams = After referring to the captures mad
and the pltrages committed by the Shenah
doah, that Minister proceeds to say:
Were there any reasons to believe tha
the operations carried On III tie ports Of he
Majesty s, kingdom and its dependencies tt
maintain and extend this systematic depreda
ton upon, theacommerce of friendly peopl,
had ybrun matgriuily freitsxeu, pr prey vcited,
should not be, under the painful necessity o
announcing to your lordship the fact that m,
Government cannot avoid entailing Upon tht
Government Of Great Britain, the response
blity for this damage 1t is impossible to bt
linsensible to the injury that may yet be i'm
psnIS l,.lit rron t,c n., l'ait which inc Dritisi
steamer, City OF Richmond, has mad IN beng
sulerea 10 transport with impumty from the
Rors, Oh Lond9n' men and supplies, to place
dln,bn Dl;ss Stoari ,iar H.. ssean seaman ran
which has, through continuously fraudulent
process, succeeded in deluding several Gov
ernments of Europe, and in escaping from this
otbor IN, h., No ,,,n",s ;,sans;j,Ia II,
effnrto ,vh;nh ~ ap,n,ol,. "o Ran,, a u ~.
NM, n sto,,' ~ s,nL outva.. :, a. -, '.
pnd rs ~ Ia.; o1''"s'' ~ t"' N'''suo"'
""S .a HeP'NI'Iies ..u, -. =, i,
toi cun PERU, PNH, 'llysrll ~ uo"o' te
Ia. ia.orap!e aisPos,'on oi her ministers 10 nam
tam amleable relations with the Government
wiichi represent Whllstpertectly rcady1to
bear testimony to the promptness with which
all thc numerous remonstrances and repre-
sentatlons which it has been my painful duty
heretofore to Submit have been met and at
tended to by your lordship, it Is at the same
time Impossible for me to dispute the fact that
the hostile policy which it is the object of all
TINS labor to prevent has not only not been
checked, but Is even now going into cxccu-
ton with more and more complete success
That policy trust. need not point out to
your lfoHrdship, i, substantially the destruction
OF the whole mercantile navigation belonging
TO the people OF the United States
Earl Russell, in replying to the noto Of Nr.
Adams, under date OF Muy 4, vindicatcs at
great length the course taken ,bv her Maics.
TVS Government. Adverting to the argu.
mcntS employed hy Mr.. .iaanis the noble earl
says: .0' ft.' ,l.''r| -r u dF lu
,b"Allow me to observe in the first place,
that | can never admit that the duties of Great
Britain toward the United States are to be
commerce OF the United States may have sus-
tanned; The question is not what losses the
United States have sustained by the wnr, but
whether IN dahcnt ana extraordinary circumnl-
Stances 'he Government ., N OF her Majesty nave
performed laithi'tIIy ana honestly the duties
wh!ch ihlerhationai law ahu thelr own muI
hlclal law imposed upon mem Let me re- re-
NINA you lhat wneh inc CIVIL war IN America
proke OUT so suddenly so violently, ana 50 80
eNtenshely, that event, III lhe preparation ol
whlch Grcat l'rltaih had no share caused
noth,hs put detrlmcnt ana INJURY 10 hcr Ma
Jcsty suDlects. ureat britain !ad previously
carried on large commerce with the oouth
crh -ot,'es Oh ehe cnloh,iahd hao procured
therf .he staple Wii,ch lNrn'Shea lhaterlais ior
tne industry ol M'lliohs OF ncr people. nag
u mere Decn no war the existing trentles with
the u'hted states would havcsecnreo the con-
unuance OF a commerce naturally advanta-
geous and desirable, put what was the first
act OF thc President OF the lnlted States !-
ile Proclaimed on the l!th OF April, leol,
the blockade OF tile ports OF seven STATES OF
the Union. But he could lawfully interrupt
the trade OF neutrals with the Southern States
upon one ground only---namely, that the
Southern States were carrying on war against
the Government of the United States; in
other words that they were belligerents. -
her Malestys Government, on on hearing OF
these events, had only two courses to pursue
namely, that OF acknowledging the blockade
and proclaining the neutrality of her Ma
iesty,I or that of refusing to acknowledge the
blockade, and insisting upon'the rights of her
Majesty SUBJECTS TO trade WIN the ports OIL
the South. Her Majesty's Government pur
sued tire former course as at'once the most
Just and the most friendly to the United States
It's obvious, indeed, that tho course OF treat-
ing the vessels of the Southern States AZ pl.
rntical vessels, and their crews as pirates
would have been to renounce the character Of
neutrals and to take part in the war. Nay, it
would have been doing more than the United
States themselves, who have never treated the
prisoners they have made, either by land or
sea, as rebels and pirates, butas prisoners off