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WIL^^;r^^;;;7c0URT, PICCADILLY. ! WM ■ Pi ipi Mhiil|iil »y^^* ^ ?'"" -**^'» 1 ^ ^ ^.^_.__.^_ ymm s:-- ^-t: ir ^1 fi! i: "^S^ RECRUITING IN THE UNITED STATES. On 29th of January, 1856, Lord Clarondon received frn„, Mr Buchanan, the United States' Minister, TZt rf" despa eh W Mr Maroy. Of this despatch.' the r^ortl has'tfke^a'r'''''-*'"""'" '"' ^°-"'"'-'. MrCrampton, scheme of recrmting for the British army within the United States Were . possible, with due regard to the evidL« and d-sclosures in the ease, to assign hif, a subordhatlZ mthat scheme, even that would not allow the President to rf.ange the course which he is obliged, under the circ^sll^ to pursue toward him. Any participation in the p"ot^ ^ ha^ been developed, of ra.sing recruits in this cl'^ryV: ae B„t. h semee, was incompatible with his official relations Idt d V ■ "" °°""^™" ^* *"' =*•»" has rendered bm an unacceptable representative of her Britamuc Majesty near this Government, and you are dh-ecj bT^^ Presrfer^to askher Majesty's Government to recall him.'' Mr Rowcroft, the British Consul at Cincinnati, and Mr Mat^ew, the British Consul at Philadelphia, are i^pL.ted m the recruumg project, and you are further directed by the President to ask for their removal for th,.,t cause." B 2 i . : I ** The persons connected with the British Consulate at New York have been actively engaged in furthering the recruiting scheme. Mr Stanley, ihc assistant or clerk of the consul, has taken a more open and effective part than the consul him- self, and is now under an indictment for violating the law against foreign recruiting. The consul, Mr Barclay, could not but know of Mr Stanley's conduct in that matter, but he still retains him in the consulate. Besides the responsibility that rightfully attaches to Mr Barclay for the improper con- duct of an employee in his office and under his immediate and daily observation, this Government is satisfied that he has him- self not only favoured the recruiting of the British army, but has participated in it. Moreover, the improper conduct of Mr Barclay in the case of the bark Maury has justly given ofience to the commercial community in which he resides and with which he has official connexion." •'For these reasons this Government deems it proper to instruct you to ask the Government of Great Britain to with- draw Mr Barclay from the post of British consul at New York." " You are directed by the President to read this despatch to the Earl of Clarendon, and, should he desire it, to hand him a copy." *' The copies of the original documents to which I have referred are contained in Hertz's trial. I send you herewith an authentic report of that trial, which you will offer to Lord Clarendon as a document connected with this despatch. I also send herewith a copy of the proceedings of the Chamber of Commerce in the city of New York relative to Mr Barclay's conduct in the case of the bark Maury. This, also, you will present to Lord Clarendon, as furnishing one ground for the request herein made for the withdrawal of Mr Barclay. " I am, Sir, respectfiilly, your obedient servant, " W. L. MARCY." "Jaties Buchanan, Esq., &c., &c., &c."' "IHB EAEt OF CUBENpoN TO M DAItAS. , " The unj„„ig„„j, 4„ ^ ., "ForefBn-offlco, April 30. 1866. J""W. from Vr'Ci.Zn p„ir°'S?''»T''>. »» the 294 of the Bubjectofthe conduct iSw„!fn°''", *>« ^^ Governments, on United States to hare boon ni^ilull VJ ''^1'' -^^ i¥ C^overnment of the ingmn^ effect to the intension. >.."'''^T." ^'^ ^<''' ^ajesty'^ receive Into the military lorv&'f hi o"" Majesty's Goveiime^ S from any quarter into W Mftfeifv'^H?^^^^ ''"^ P^"o°« ^bo. coming to em|age fn that service. '' *^ ' dominions, might there be wiUinf ^^^^^^'i^X^:^^^^^f^ .*?^r Marcy. cause |t ^ julfc iJ^'S *i'J t^Sds"Lr M^-^'^/'J '*' ^u^ alao^bl: conduct was impugned, to Dutfhnm; *"^ Majesty's officers whoso against them, anfto ffiv/^Lm Ti. "l VOsbcmwix of tfie chargerbrS? deenco '^hjch wa- theWZflrstli^P^I^^"^*/..^^ expStioX^d Tho undersimod hnFnrnuL i "™® afforded, them. must express hTde%roSe%t^^^^^^ ^n^' Marcy's last despatch States should have doSmoTft M.^L*^" Po^«™ment of the ifS a question which Mr BSfanin n«n "t**^ f ""^""""e a controversy on aettled by the note of tho SSLW f\'^t}^' would be fiLly ^^:srK-oitcK^^ of any intention to give oflbnco an^n *^ ^"'5"^ ^^''^^^' «« a disclaimer J'i"''^ th'^SGovernmJnt migh^^^^^^^^^^ any offence had. though unintentionally, ^on gimi -' ^ ^"'^^^^otmcea to think As regard, this note of inthofJul,, 1855, it is to be remembered thut, althou^'h Lord Cliircndon cooly expresses his regret at tlic course of tlic United States' Government, he had ah-eady on the 29th of January, been taken to task by Mr Buchanan for omitting to state that the expression of ♦• satisfaction " was used before there was any idea of Mr Crampton's complicity. Lord Clarendon then said to Mr Buchanan, " I rogrot not having embraced your remark in my despatch to Mr Crampton," (Vide < Blue Book,' Recruiting in United States, delivered May 2, 1856, page 247.) Notwithstanding his apology. Lord Clarendon deliberately repeats this statement for the mere sake apparently of making a point. II r "For what lias been tho courao of tho transactions which have given nse to this eorrcHpndcnco ? '' On tho breaking,' out of tho luto war between the Western Powers and lluBsia, tlio British Govomtncnt was informed that many persons resident witliin tho Uuitod States— some, natives of the continent of Jiuropo, and some, natural bom subjects of her Majesty— were de- sirous of entering into tho military service of Great Britain. The British Govornmont, believing tho information they had received on this matter to bo well founded, and being anxious to increase as rapidly as possible their military force, took stops to avail themselves of this disposition, and (rave directions that any persons presenting themselves within the British North American Provinces, willing to enlist and found fit for service, should bo engaged for the British army. But her Majesty s Governmput gave tho most positive orders that in making arrangements for this purpose nothing should be done to infringe in any manner whatsoever the neutrality laws of the United States. " It was not doubted that such arrangements might be carried into execution without any violation of those laws, because those laws pro- TT '^ ?"a '''"^'"^'', °' engagements only within tho territories of the United States ; they do not forbid citizens of tho United States or residents thorem irorn leaving t'lose territories, nor do they forbid such citizens or other persons from engaging or enlisting in military service elsewliero, when of their own free wiU and without any previous contract or onfjagement they may have left those territories. " Ihe intentions of tho British Government, and the arrangements TTwulo to carry those intentions into execution, were not concealed from tlio (.oviTiiiiumt of llio United States. '• ThoHf iiitentio'iM a-id arnmgumcntH were frankly stated by Mr Cranmloii to Mr Marcy in a coiivcrsatiuu on the 22nd uf March, 1855, aud the only obscrvatioiib which Mr Murcy niadf in reply were tliut feuMi ll t^s^^i^^J^, J'f , «,. entree. States and got oolistod into any Soiga irWce.*^ *^ " "'" ^"'^'^'^ Is it - frank " i„ Lord Clarendon to invert the order of Mr M.., .^.ntenee^ , Koad Cra.pton. despatch, ■ B^ B^V 11 thoWality of the course wh ch Smf rl 'I'^^r^nce of opinion as to ^, "But the British GovernraS soonS? liT""* '"tended to pursue them from the United Stat™ thK wouM V "r^""l« which reached execution of the contemplated arraLemcLf.f*"^?^^ ^ P'""^""' the circumstances which might give rTs" t^^S/'^?'" ^^^'n^ attended bv Governments. It was senn fT.nf i discussions between the tnn of her Majesty's Government hat ZT'' f "^* ™'«^t be the orders tion of thi la^ws of ?hoSei Itates'Td T^'^ '^'^ ^'''^^ '" <'°»trloT Majesty's officers in America miSit bo' in 1 ''^'^''T ^''"'Pulous her misconception of the precise bearinlnf/? obeying those orHors, yet a those officers uniutcntSTy t^oTeJsLn fe'r •."'e\*.^'^d 'ome of sons, either from honest zeJor for the sakn-''"'' ''^''° °"'°'' Pcr- entrap her Majesty's officers miSit HrfflT °^P'"'.or ^om a desire to visions of those laws Her Mfiest'sfe ""^ ^'^"f'^°? ^ith the pro- most anxious that nothing shouts' haJDenfnT?''?*'.J^^''«f<''"°' being standing between the two^Governme^^^^^^ ''*' good undor- uneqiiivocally their respect for the W« ^e.i^^ desirous of showing and of their own accord.'delrmin'eV o^v uile Stf ^*"' '' «"-^ ot the arrangements m question and thpv^„ I"'^^^^'' P^-osocutioa Canada and to Nova Scot?a on ?h; 2" ud T^n ''^o^^^^ «°°t out to tmue all further proceedLgri^ tfe matter' if ^',°':'^^™ ^^^ ^'^''O''- ■toreigu Legion." t. "» wio matter of enlistment for the This confession is most important It ,•« ♦ u that Lord Clarendon has not deemed it ad " I ''^"''*^^ particular reasons which inducXht hi" ^ thepartof herMajest/sGovernmenr ' '^'""" °" In the debate on the Foreign Enlistment Bill, objections of tbs character had been started, but were then rea fd with contemptuous indifference by he. Majest/s adviserr i? or various reasons a rcferenop fr, +l,« 1 j , fn„nrl .f 1. . i^itrence to tiie above debate will bo found of much niterest. ii", )'*''%>;^'fe,'. i. > IH 6 " A fortnight after thcHO or Jpm had bcon Bont out Iho undorsiffnoj receivod from Mr Budianaii a note, duted July 6th, ollogitifj that tlio neutrality la*8 of the United States had in many inBtanccs been vio- Jatod by personH taking Btops, eithi-r willi or without the apjirobation of the British Government, for the ijurpose of ^nutmhui or onliHtiii>r within the United States rccniits for the British service ; and Mr Bu(;hanan, in the conclusion cf his note, stated that " the President would be much ratified to learn that her Majcaty's Oovernment had not authorised the proceedings complained of, but had condemned tho conduct of its officials engaged therein, and had visited them with its marked displeasure, as well as taken decisive measures to put a stop to conduct contrary to the law of nations, tho laws of the United States, and the comity which ought over to prevail in the iutorcouivtc between the two friendly Powers." " The undersigned, in reply to this note, expressed to Mr Buchanan, on tl'e 16th of July, the regret of her Majesty's Gaveniment if the law of the United States had been in any way infringed by persons acting wit)', or without authority from her Majesty's Government ; and ho stated that any such infringement of tlie law of tho United States would be contrary to the wishes and the positive instructions of tho British Government. " Tho undersigned went on to explain his reasons for believing that no person authorised to act for the British Government hud violated the law of the United States ; and in conclusion he stated that tho request of tho President that decisive measures might be taken to put an end to these proceedings had been anticipated by tho spontaneous act of her Majesty's Government, who had, a fortnight before the receipt of Mr Buchanan's note, sent out orders to put an end to the arrangement for enlisting within the North American provinces persons who might come there from other places. "Mr Buchanan, in reply, said, in a note dated tho 18th of July, that ho should feel much satisfaction in transmitting to his Government the note of the undersigned. " So strong appears to have been the impression on the mind of Mr Buchanan of the satisfactory nature of this communication, that when afterwards ho received a despatch from Mr Maroy with renewed in- structions to address remonstrances to tho British Government on the subject of the recruiting proceedings, he abstained from acting upon those instructions, and withheld Mr Marcy's despatch containing them from the knowledge of her Majesty's Government, obviously because ho perceived by its date, the 15th of July, that it was written long before the note of the undersigned of the 10th of July could have been received by Mr Marey, and because he concluded that when that note should have been received, tho Government of the United States would bo satis- fiedwith its cortents. For a considerable time this conclusion appeared well founded. On the 5th of September, however, Mr Marcy ad- dressed a note to Mr Crampton, not alleging that fresh subjects of complaint had arisen since tho receipt in America of the British orders of the 22nd of June, but going back to tho same transactions to which Mr Buchanan's note of the 6tli of July had adverted, and renewing all his original complaints, as if no notice had been taken of his former representations, as if no regret had been expressed, and as if no mea- sures had been adopted to put an instant stop to tho proceedings out of which Lis complaints had originated. nuKht well be r.ooived with somo f ^ 'J*'"*^ ? «ovornment to oxpoct tliuy boIiev«d that they hid J^rn t^^anl '"'^^^ inaHinucfi „ Stato. every sati.factfon wlfich ot e Gov^rZ^?"'"' ^°I ^^' U»'*"'» expect to receive from another in a c^e of thiXd -°"^'^ '''"""'''''^ III It 18 hardly credible that all this is spun out of the simple finale to a letter of Mr Buchanan of the 18th of July. 1855 The undersigned will have much satisfaction in transmitting a copy of his lordship's note to tlie Secretary of State by the next steamer," and, moreover, „ before stated, that Lord Clarendon knew that the complicity of Crampton had not then appeared. (Vide ' Blue Book,' No. 70, page 173) Why. what does Lord Clarendon imagine tlxat his diplo- matic correspondents mean when they-,- renew the assurance of the highest consideration." Does he believe them ? This trash is really too ridiculous to dwell on. Had Lord Clarendon " a case " he need not 'resort to auch transparent claptrap. that her Majesty's Gove'mment ffi'rnXTolelieve Ztro^Z Majesty 8 servants, or any agents duly authorised by them Wdi« & ^"J'^'^"*^^"^ *° r««P«<^fc ancf toobey the laJa of7he Unitd fl,j'l!lf7^'"^''^^^'V"'r° ?o^«™n^ontof the United States stiU considered this answer unsatisfactory and on the 13th of October. Mr Ev addressed another despatch on these matters to Mr Buchanan wE? ThZ'ZZ^T'^ *lr'^' 'undersigned on the 1st of Cember ff that despatch Mr Marcy renews his general assertions tW >w.^ Majesty's officers in Wrica had violat^ed the faTs of thfunild States ; he refers to his despatch of the 15th July, which Mr BuchSi^ has abstained from communicating on the suppowtion that thi, nn^!^' the undersigned of the 16th Jul? had fiadi^CtB tt que Jo^ at issue, and he states that the said despatch of the 15th of July kdSated the satisfaction which the Goverament of the United Stat/s ^ehW It had a right to claim from the Government of Great Britain ^"®^®^ •• This despatch of the 15th of July, which was not ^mmi^icated to the undersigned by Mr Buchanan till the 2nd of Novcmberl^oncludM F ll! i H 3 bj^ saying that " the President is diEposcd to believe that her MaiestT's trovernment Jias xiot countenanced the illegal proceedin-rf, of its officePS and agents since its attention was fii-st directed to the subjpct, and will consider It alike due to itself and to the United States to SisaTOw their acts and deal with them in such a manner as their grave offence X£l .^"'*r^^ ""' '•^''ruiting for the British army.^in the mSde alluded to. IS stm prosecuted (as he believed) within tlie United States M. Ti i" '*°'^ f^*""*^ employed for that purpose, the President instruct^i il wiVl". ?"^ ^ V *°. ^Z ^'^Jesty's Government that he expects It win take prompt and effective measures to arrest tlieir proceedings ZiJ^A "^^'.^Vrgf from service those persons now in it who were enlisted withm the United States, or who left the United States under contract made here to enter and serve as soldiers in the Brit'.ii army." TWr Tvr ^^' T' ^^ * J satisfaction which, as late as the 13th of October, E'Sandel ""'^ ''^^' ^^^'^ '^' Government of the United JIT^}^^ ""!???* **" -n" ^^i'* P'"'"* ''f *^'« demand, her Majesty's Govern - mft^in h°^-f^"T^ "^'^^^ proceedings were, so far as they Lew, com- ^nni t.^- ' ^^''^'•^ °^ ai^horised agents, and therefore they have \l?fr, 1 ^r';, '^i"'' °®.''^" «•• "«^°t« t° deal with as offenders ^!nf J":! TT •.^°c??^^"'^'^'"' deeming it respectful to the Govem- honed « «n';S°'l"' ^^"^7 *.° ''i! '°' '"'^'''^ '^t« ^ detailed and, asTe iXu «^t'«f«'=to^' reply to the arguments and statements contained uMrMarcys despatch of the 13th of October. In that reply the undersigned stated that the most material point, that of the alfeS recruiting had been already disposed of; for, nearly four monS before the date of that despatch, the recruiting ;rrangementTa Jpro ceed ngs bad been abandoned by orders sent £y her Majesty's GovSn- "auled K?'^ f^T-' """^ '^^' '^^ second part of the satisfSn ?^ph. vl 1 f ^V" ^^''T- PT^^.to give,, because no person had to Nn.iT^''^^^^'''' enlisted within the United States, or left ^.he United States under contract made therein to enter into service in the men ?LT^" ^°d he further added that if it could be shown that aiy Cnll}^ undersigned thus showed that the satisfaction claimed by the Government of the United States had long since been given as far as it SLfe. io/''nf 'V^^'P^^^^H'^t*^ ^^' ^'' ^°d, in\ddit1ou o ho sa sfa.t.on asked for he expressed tho regret of her Majesty's Govern- ment if anything had been done by any person, autLrised or uS- uSstotes 5' '" considered an infringment of tho lawof ?he Really, with every aeferciicc to the Earl of Clarendon, '< The undersigned thus showed " nothing of the sort. ^ Why he has stated in this vc-y despatch that the discon- tinuance of the recruiting was a spontaneous act, not by way of amends to the United Stat.,^s, but by way of relieving the I* I r 9 British Government from the cons,-qnenccs of their own acts Notwxthstandmg this, his Lordship takes the credit of havin. yielded It, as the satisfaction claimed by the United States' Go" vernment. Lord Clarendon proceeds to admit this a few lines further on — woJdh^fhave eS itttV'tr''^ '^''' '^^ correspondence n:ont of the kw of th^ IJnHcTs^^^^^^^^^ ^'', any^nfringe- standiug the positive and ropeatod o de^^^^^ "''*'''^^" to the contrary The satisfSon vS the Ere^t'oShfTrri States, after mature deliberation, had demanShTouLf ?'''^°'**''^ taneous y and by anticipation granteror had been shown to'L"^"''" practicable because there was no mlo in thfl TlWff=v. * ^^,'°^" enhstment. or contract to enlist, had^to the knowfedt If he^Mn W°'" Majesty s Government, however. exnresspH fd;,. tLi- ^"x • ®^ ^^S^'^^ ^^- ^^ -y - =idte tall- STwtrS explanation would prove satisfautory. for on the ?qth nf T« ^'^ r ^f "^ present year, Mr Buchanan commun cated to thT und.ll ""7 ''^^*''^ patch from Mr Marcv dated the 28?}, nfT^n i "^aers'gned a des- fulating tne comnlaT^ts ofteSrnmon^ o^^^ makmg a demand in the way of satisfaTion differLt from th^ '', -'^ were mentioned in Mr Marcy's note of the 15th of 7?,^:? ""'^'^^ were referred to in his despatch of the 13th of October ^„'oTi? ""^'^^ faction which the Government of the UnLd ^ft. u '\^ *^f ^-^''V bo asked whether any new ground had been found fnrtl.^Ii "^'^^'"^y made against ti.ese officers in Mr Marty^" tpat^of thTShTf December, rest upon statements which were eoualW «;t .,-.w^ i °^ ledge of the Government of the United sLL o A n^hnfn )T'- when no such demand was made." ^^'^ °^ Octobe^ !■ As regards this attempt to confuse dates, it should be re. meinbcrcd tJiat Mr Crampton was in Ilahfax in May, 1855 • that it was during May that he did the acts that form the' - aij iai*'- fcf 10 ground of the complaint against him ; that his conduct did not come before the United States' Government judicially untU September, 1855 ; tl at nothing said or done by them before that judicial knowledge can be held to prejudice their case ; that, therefore, a reference by Mr Marcy on 13th October to his former note of I5th July, absolute concludes nothing, and that it follows, as a necessary consequence, that there is nothing to justify Lord Clarendon's " disappointment," ^or " the confident expectation " that he had entertained. The deep respect that Lord Clarendon entertains for the Government of the United States, precludes him, of course, from questioning the right of the United States to frame their own case ; he must therefore allow them, even in the alterna- tive that he has suggested, the fuU right to extend and ampHfy their demand, if they became convinced that their moderation up to 15th July, their disinclination to push demands, deemed just by them to the extreme limit, had been met by disingenu- ousness, untruthfulness, and aristocratic hauteur. 98fV,% i"''f' 'S''^'^ proceeds to reply to Mr Marcy's note of the S.V h^!T^''' \ """'* "''*'''" ^"^ erroneous construction which M? April, 1855 from the undersigned to Mr Crampton, which was com- mumcated by him to Mr Marcy. The passage is as foUows :-'• I en- M IfWr^l^^l"^"^ proceedmgs as reported in your despatch No. 67 of the 12th ultimo with respect to the proposed enlistment in Sf!t?J'"'^M''^''°' °^ Foreigners and British ^sutjects in he United States.' Mr Marcy assumes, and argues upon thi assumption, that the meaning of this passage was, that the enlistments of The persons mentioned and wluc\were approved of by her Majesty's Government were to take place w thin the United States; whereJa the seSce' according to Its obvious meaning, relates to Foreigners and Sfsh subjects resident in the United States. The word "in "has reference to the place -.-here they resided, and not to the place where they weSe to be enhstea ; and if any doubt could arise on this point that doubt must have been removed by the concluding passage, which adverts to the neutrality law of the United States, and says that her mSvs Government would on no account run any risk of infrinS St W ?. rr.'^'^°*T.°^*^'ff^^^Se under consideration doS not apper; to have occurred to Mr Slarcv at the time when the despatch oTtlio undersigned of the 12th of April w.^ communicated to^h m by Mr 11 In reply to the general Btatements of Mr MarcTs deZtpl, +!,„ dorsigned must repeat that her Maipstv'a r\^l^ ^ aespatcli, the un- eation with Mr Crampton, rthr22nd of fcjf i«A°'}?^ '?. ''P'^^^''- policy of the ifaited sLteT-Sl tK^tJ^ ™ J,™'^? °' *» offence on the part of Grflat Tli-ifoi., onT;- 7 ™^P<'°'^ »^"?t policy was an United States.'^ ^*"' *^^'°'' *^^ sovereign rights of the Mr Crampton hints, without actually stating it, that Mr Marcy had given him to understand, between themselves that he was bound to make a show of respect for the law, bul that for his (Majcy's) part, he did not care if half the United States enlisted."-(Vide * Blue Book,' No. 69, page 172. Mr Crampton's Letter, Feb. 22, 1856.) This is worth attention, because it goes far to corroborate the statement made by Hertz. What Mr Marcy did say was, that " Persons might leave the United States, and enlist in the British or any other army, but that any person violating the neutrality laws would be prose- cuted, and, if convicted, punished." Now with the erroneous impression on Mr Crampton's 12 mind as to Mr Marcy's opinion, what more likely than that ho should say, in answer to Hertz's inquiry " How am I to be backed in case a charge is made against me ? " 'n : a >:'mii>h ]jlea uf •' ^ot oniilty." Tht l> llllM.illM 14 M question ia, « What did they do? "—not " What did they say? " Of course they did not want to bo found out. ' \ In regard to the second point, Mr Marcy alleges that notwith- standing the orders of the British Government, officers and agents of that txovernment did within the United States do things whiclx were a viola^ tion of the neutrality laws of the United States, and Mr Marcy spcci- ^^ "^^- ^'^ charge against Mr Crampton, her Majesty's Minister at Washington, and against her Majesty's Consuls at Cincmnat:. Philadelphia, and New York." That is not so. The allegation, as against Mr Crampton, is, that his con- nexion with the illegal acts complained of had made him an unacceptable representative of her Britannic Majesty. Now what does Mr Crampton say ? What do her Ma- jesty's Ministers, after three months' consideration, offer as a full and valid defence to the charges brought against them ? Do they even produce a denial by Mr Crampton of the truth of the charge affecting him ? No, THEY DO NOT. And why ? Because a denial would be useless without the proof to support it. What did Lord Clarendon state in the House of Lords on January 31st, 1856 ? *' Instructions were sent to the Governor of Nova Scotia, to consider whether persons from the United States, desirous of enlisting in the British Amiy, could be received at Halifax. These instructions were made known to Mr Crampton, and he was toid, that however desirous her Majesty's Government were to obtain recruits, they were still more anxious that there should be no violation or infringement of the municipal law of the United States. Shortly afterwards, an a^ent opened an agency office ; and upon complaint being made, IS Mr Cramplon desired thai i, might be made public that the Umtod b^tes and he made known hi, instructions to Mr Marcy who then expressed himself satisfied. The passal of ^rsonswishing to go to Canada to enlist was paid rndjfd; K«e la,d down the rule, that to pay the passage of men to . ^:inTL:^ ''■-'" -■^'''■7 ™>'o>-0"onn! *e Brit.h aover;™:nt-ha;e disdatTd ''^ IZZTt fimg,ng the law of the United States. . . Vl Reconduct of Mr Crampton we are perfectly satisfied, for I ™ onvmeed that neither intentionally or unintentionally 1 ^^entallyd.d he violate any law of the United State' »_ I856.-(Vide 'Times,' February 1st.) qn^'" A"'"*?' '' ^r "'"■ '^'"' '^"y ^'' ""^ =" fc on the 30ft of Apnl as he did on the 31st of January bin '^°? r.' T '"'^'"^ *"' ^"^ ^i'^'y'' Ministers had been gmded by the adviee of Judge W, (the very Judge, be rt remembered,who tried and convicted Hertz). T ' 7 "/ «™«="" good enough for Parliament, but hi, Lordshp does not " tryit „n" with Mr Marcy. Now let us again revert to the act. J charge against Crampton, the acts constitut- ng his c„nne.,on " with the offenders against the Uw, which "conne^aon- makes him " unacceptabl; " a. Washingtom It appears that having had hi, explanation with Marcy, he proceeded to Hahfax and that there, with the Governor of Nova Scofa and others, he proceeded to take such step, a, he thought most amtable to procure men for the Foreign Legion, Li that there he received from Caj,t.i„ Max Strobel a certain plan ot proceedings. the 27th of November, 1855.-(Vide 'Blue Book,' pa<,e 133) What does Lord Clarendon say, what docs he "give as Crampton's denial ? Ittiy this : ** 16 Mr fvli 7"^*"'* -f- '"^f' ^''TJ]-"'?' *''^- "nderfligneil has to state that Mr Cmmi-ton positively and distinctly donio8 the charffo broudit ngam« h„n , ho dec nro« that he never fdrod. or retained, or ongaSed a single person within the United States for the service of her K {hefa>; of the UiiillS^ S^aTes.'' """"' """ ^'"^'^""^^^ '^'^^ ^^'^^'^^^'^ '' > ' ' The charge being for misconduct at Halifax, he says he " Never hired, retained, or engaged a single person within the United States." It would be an equally good defence, entitled to just as much consideration, if he said they Wv're not single, they were all married. But let us see (always with strict reibrcncc to the ' Blue Book') what Crampton himself states on November 27, 1855 : Having stated that his object in going to Halifax was to put a stop to the proceedings of persons connected with the Foreign Legion, and that he had left with his Secretary of Legation a message to that effect for Mr Marcy (vide « Blue Book, No. 55, page 132), Mr Crampton quietly proceeds, on the very next page, to give the narrative of his intercourse with Captain Strobel, at Halifax, for the purpose of raising men for this very same Foreign Legion.— (Vide ' Blue Book ' page 133). - ' Need more be said? However, let us go on — " I accordingly left Washington on May 2," • * * * " I returned to Washington on June 3."-( Vide Blue Book page 133.) Here is one whole month— the very month in which it is alleged he formed that "connexion" which rendered him "unacceptable." Where are his communications with the English Government during the month of May, 1855 ? Why, with a whole ' Blue Book,' for the defence,' is not line single despatch given ? 17 Will any one bdicvc that jiifuMH|fA,'ij 'i^HJ^^.^H^ ^ 18 % ii] ! tlmt he not c.nly would not have anything to do with liis plans, but sent to warn of!" hig agents, whoso mere presence in Canada ho would not permit. This iH the reason why the Honourable Joseph Howe, about whom the colonial papers said so much, and Lord Clarendon says HO little, got no farther than Niagara. The next portif)n of Lord Clarendon's statement is really deserving of the deepest consideration, although on grounds purely l':nglish, and for reasons other than those connected with Crampton's case. As against the United States' Government, it is of no weight whatever. Lord Clarendon not being able to give any denial, by Crampton, of the charge against him, proceeds to attack the character of the witnesses, evidently without seeing that such a.cours- would take him on to very dangerous ground. Hertz was convicted of a misdemeanor in a United States' Court, on evidence that implicated Crampton. Lord Clarendon assumes the right to go behind that evi- dence. Now what did our Government, no longer ago than Feb. 7, 1856, lay down as a principle, connected with this very -ques- tion of Foreign Enlistment, on the occasion— not of the re- quest for the recall, but of the actual imprisoning and punish- ment of a British Consul by his Majesty the King of Prussia? They said, and mark it, because the sentence in italics has an important bearing (as coming from Lord Palmerston) on this argument. FOREIGN ENLISTMENT. ^ " Mr H. Daillie said— I wish to ask the Firjt Lord of the Treasury, whether he has any objection to lay on the table of the House the correspondence which has taken place with the Prussian Government, relative to the employment of agents 19 f rth cnl3.cntof troop., .nd i.. rcfcronco to tl,c arroat of 1'- Majesty a Consul at Cologne upon the charge of bcin« cnga,ccn„ such proceedings ; also an, communication S may have been .nade by the authorities of the Ilanse Towns With reference to the subject of enlistment. to the r '''r'"''^^^' certainly shall object to produce Co Je T, ^^-^P-^-- -t>^ regard to our Consul at wh eT W M ". "p ''"'" '^°"^''' "^"-^ ^^ Curtis which her Majesty a Government had good reason to believe wo. s tea by evidence not entitled to credence. A g^^^ deal of commumcation passed between her Majesty's Govern- ment and the Prussian Government. The triaP at wh cTL r' *''• ^^"^^"^"^*-" "f Mr Curtis followed, wh eh m our opmxon was not just ; but ^.. could not ex- pect the Irassian Government to acquiesce i nour opin^ ^on as they u^ere entitled to place confidence in the JudgLt of their owntnlunal. Nevertheless, as a matter of courtesy towards her Majesty's Government, the King of Prussia par"^ doned Mr Curtis as soon as the final sentence of the court was delivered. The correspondence involved a good deal of controversy. The transaction has ended satisfactorily and anucably, and I think no pubHc advantage would ar.se, but the contrary, from laying the papers on the table of the House (Hear hear). With regard to the other question, there has really been no correspondence on the subject. Representa- tions were made to the Government of Hamburg with respect to enlistment going on, and a communication was made by the Hamburg Government to Colonel Hodges, but it did not need any reply. At Hamburg five or six persons were tried and convicted of enlisting contrary to law. No communication has, however, been made to her Majesty's Consul General at ambui^., and there is nothing to produce on the subject. (Hear). —< Tunes,' February the 8th, 185G. Lord Clarendon appears to think that simply because he M^ .1 i m V 20 haj) to deal witJi ti Republican rrcsident, instead of a Despotic monarch, u dillbrent rule is to be acted on, and wc are placed by him in the very dun;,'erou3 ponitioii of attempting to enlbreo this doctrine, although it is utterly untemible and will not bear a momcnt'n examination. Docs not Lord Clarendon see that he in elTect declares that the United States' Government ought to have at once sent awfty Cram].ton and tried and cmvicted the Consuls ? He thus imposes a penalty on moderation and oflbrs a i.romium on violence. . The charKo brought agnmst Mr Cromnton ia mninly founded unon ov.dencc given by Strobol on tho trial of ilcrtz, and o. t o o cXd confession ol llurtz hunsolf. One of these J.erson %^ roby Vas in consequenco of lus misconduct, dismissed « -om omplovmor t ^.v tl o Lieuteuant-Govornor of Nova Scotia at Halifax, and iCS a ml ed o Mr Crampton, and ondearourod to extort money from him bv a ':*:"• !:^"tt ^■'^^'^' ^".'"^o disregarded. Ti.o uudeSJd has Ih 1 ' i i — .." — .■""" "•°»'-'Sarclod. Tiio uudersiLTiod bus ilin honour to transmit as iuclosures to this note docuS. which credit. It 18 impossible for her Majesty's Government to set th« nroru^if;Si=r;tr^^^^^^^ Majesty's Minister and her Majesty's Consuls mS b" 'and ndl" s;s;tS';;iKiiiJ'L^Si;hi:;r'Sa brought ajrainst them, and they deJaro tha t1 ev 1 1^„ ■ ^ ^*-''" whatever infringed the laws of thJuSsi^^^ ^'"'' '" ^" ^'"^ Wi h respect to Mr Rowcroft, her Maiestv's Oon«,.l r r;., • ♦• the undersigned has to observe tlmt fi ioeeeji ! / «I ^ goullemau are stiil pon.ling. As to iho origin ?W^l ^" ' ;'^' of tho.e pr,>.recling1,, the undersil^ied m X hiv:^'"*^ .'-'^' "'^*' ""=";« as they are still ponding, he abstains f^om ffing j;." He nust hb^eve^ be pt'iinitted to remark that t would at nil ov,.n(u i, • •'. '^ • V I u aceiisation against Mr Matliew, her Majestv's Con..,l nf PI,; ladelulua. rests entirely upon assertions nimK li iS- z Tbo e as?eru.vi> i, ;' positive y denied bv Mr M.itl...... J i , {r • "°^" 9i i" Kiv n^' ,.r,.,lit f, Mr Matl!"lv ^ '-"^ornmout of hor M^jcHty i" it. ..or was iuS d ir e i^^^^^ "or .mrtinpatoj for that i)iirpo8o. '^^ '^^"^'""'"K. or eiiKng,„g uuj, ,„„„ of 8»chmenaH IFctIz n.uf Stroh.'l ■' " ''" "Hsort.ous and ovidcnco Lord Clarendon l,«s st.i.pHcd the evidence thut in the pro- « ' edmgs of the British Government under the Foreign Enlist- went Act they employed as ngems vurions individuals, amon^ Avhom we find the nan.es of Captain Strobcl, IJertz. and Reuss. — (Vide • Blue Book '.) Let all those members of the House of Commons who took part in the debate on the Foreign Enlistment JMll, all who heard what was said by Government in its favour and remem- ber the reasons given against it, lend their best attention to Lord Clarendon's own account of the men in whoso hands our Government (having scornfully rejected Canadian aid) placed the honour of the Country. First as to Mr Hertz " Commonwcaltli of Pennsylvania, city of Philadelphia, ss. "Be it known that on the day of the date hereof, before me, Edward Hurst, notary public for said coiumonwealth, duly commissioned and sworn, residing in said city, per- sonally appeared Maximilian August Thoman, of the city of New York, who, being by me duly sworn according to law, did depose and say, — "That he recently had a conversation with Sigismund Zeise, now the confidential clerk of P. R. Scherr, No. 142 Coates street, in Philadelphia aforesaid, liquor-dedcr, who stated to him, the deponent, that Henry Hertz, now residing at No. 424 South Twelfth street, Philadelphia, was about two years and six months ago a salesman in the employment mmm 22 > ). Si of the said P. R. Scherr and his then co-partner, Henry Gemer, and that he, the said Zeise, was at tlie same time .employed in the said establishment. "That while the i'aid Hertz was acting as salesman in said employment he, in co-operation with said Gcrner, swindled Mr Scherr. the other co-partner, out of sundry suras of money, by sending liquors, wines, and other articles to different customers without cliarging them in the books of the concern, ov crediting the firm with the money received therefore, which they appropriated to tlieir own use. " That said Zeise in said conversation further stated, that said P. R Scherr instituted a suit and recovered a verdict against his partner the said Gemer in one of the courts in the city of Philadelphia, and that the said Gerner, as well as the said Henry Hertz, were obliged to leave the said establish- ment, the latter being actuaUy turned out of doors as a man who had wronged his employer by a swindling operation. " That said Zeise in said conversation also stated that said Gerner and said Henry Hertz on one occasion endeavoured to induce him, the said Zeise, to join them in the swindling process of sending articles of merchandise to different per- sons, without charging them in the books of the concern, or of giving the firm credit for the amount received therefore ; that he declined their overture, and gave information of the' fact to his employer, the said P. R. Scherr. " The deponent further states that William Mehler was present during thvi said conversation, and heard the whole ""^^''^ "M.A.TnoMAN. "Sworn and subscribed before me, this 2nd day of November, 1855. " Edward Hurst, Notary Public." (Vide 'Blue Book.') This is not all ; Lord Clarendon's friends appear to have enjoyed considerable notoriety. 23 Other affidavits follow with reference to the name eoneern wh.h .n all respects confirm the allegations of this statemer It appears that tbs was not the only occasion on which Mr He z gave umbrage to the respectable citizens of the United watch: Z I " ''"'^ °^ '"°*^^"- ""^^ ^^-'^^-^tion in watches not of the most creditable kind :~ "State of Pennsylvania, city of Philadelphia, ss. Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, an alderman and just.e of the peace of the city of Philadelphia, ^lankhn Butler, who being duly sworn, deposes and says i -Ihat he resdes in the city of Philadelphia, and is an "nporter of watches and jewelry. Deponent' sa;s he knows tZT? T ' '"* '^ '^^ '^"^ ^- ^^-' two year! hat he knows bs character by public report; that it is bad as It h T^T """''''' ' '^'' ^" ^^^^^^^3^ ^^«t «-id Hertz, who had before importuned deponent to let him have watches on credit, which deponent refused, obtained from deponent two gold watches, upon the representation that he had a purchaser for them, and that he would return the watches or the money on the following Saturday. After procuring the watehes deponent heard nothing from Hertz, and sent repeatedly to him, but could not get the watches or the xnoney. Finally, by threats of prosecution, he obtained from lum one of the watches, by giving him a receipt in full, and aUowing Inm to keep the other watch. Deponent says the watch that was obtained was procured through L counsel, upon condition that there should be no prosecution.' Deponent says that, from his own knowledge of the said Henry Hertz, as well as from the character of him derived from others, he emphatically says that he would not believe him on his oath. u tt^ . r. ,,Q , , "Frank Butler. Sworn and subscribed before me, this 6th day uf March, 1856. •'^ " J. B. Kenney, Alderman." (Vide 'Blue Book.') m ! U '■' . "ii I f II ■i 1 #^1 ft 24 The reputation of Lord Clarciidori's friend was " had as relates to financial matters !" The prevaiHng impression in the States among those who had the best opportunities of watching Mr Hertz's many-sided career was, that the fellow was a Russian spy. Captain Strobel was another individual of the same class. There are two or three pages of affidavits affecting this worthy of the same kind as the one which follow ^ at page 27. One has heard indirect and vague hints that another " emi- nent German " also a '• military man " and also a friend of Lord Clarendon's, was a Russian spy. What a capital thing a < Blue Book' would be with a few pages of affidavits on that subject. But now we come to a more important gentleman, one on whom her Majesty's commission was bestowed— a fit associate for the heroes of the Crimea, provided for them by her Majesty's Government, on whose introduction this worthy was at once introduced to the " best society" " His Excellency, Sir Gaspard, and Lady le Marchant, request the honour of Captain M. F. O. Von. Strobel's com- pany at dinner, on Sunday, 8th April, at quarter to Seven o'clock. " Belvidere. An answer is requested." (Vide 'Blue Book,' page 55.) Again, "Dear Strobel,— I am directed by the General to acquaint you, that Mr Crampton wants to see you at his house, at ten o'clock, to-morrow morning— be punctual. If you like, come up to my house at half-past nine o'clock, and we will go together. *' Yours truly " J. W. Preston, 76th Rcg't. '' Tuesday, lath May, Halifax." ''Vide ' Blue Book; page 51.) ^^^^ 25 Again, Colone. Clarke, the officer of the Seventy-sixth Regi- ment requests the honour of Captain Strobel a.d the officers 18th A rir" ^^'°"' """"^""'^ '* ^^''''' °^ Wednesday, ^ , ^^ ;^ An answer will oblige." Co one! Eraser, Colonel Stotherd. and the officers of the Royal Artmery and Royal Engineers, request the honour of Captazn Max F. O. Strobel's company at dinner, on Tuesday, the 3rd April, at Seven o'clock. ^ ^^^ ^^^'' An answer is requested." (Vide « Blue Book; page 55.) And to conclude , " Provincial Secretary's Office, May, 3rd, 1855. Dear Sir,-I am directed by his Excellency, the Lietenant- Governor, to introduce to you the bearer, Lieutenant Kuentzel He comes w:th letters to Sir Gaspard from Mr Crampton." You will please explain to him the steps necessary for him to take to secure his commission. Your Ob't Serv't, ., ^ . " I^RUCE McDonald Captain Strobel, 1st Company Foreign Legion." (Vide ' Blue Book,' page 55.) He comes from Mr Crampton, Eh ! from where ? Mr Crampton says he was in the U. S. on and l,^r o , May, 1855 !-(Vide < Blue Book,' page i33 ) " '"' States'?'' '""' retain Lieutenant Kuentzel in the United Now, what does Lord Clarendon say of this man, bearing be It remembered, her Majesty's Commission : ^' " State of New York, ss. " J3y this public instrument be it known to all whom tho same doth or may concern, that I. Charles Edwards, a public notary m and for the State of New York, by letted p^ten under the great seal of the said State, duly commissioned and «wr^ 1^' 26 sworn, and in and by the said letters patent invested Svith fuU power and autliority to attest deeds, wills, codicils, agree- ments, and other instruments in writing, and to administer any oath or oatlis to any person or persons,' do hereby certify that on the day of the date hereof before me personally came and appeared Maximilian August Thoman, of No. 7 Allen street New York; and ho, being sworn by me, did depose and say that, from all he knows and has been informed, he verily beheves that Captain Mas Strobel is, and has been for some months past, in the pay of the Russian Government, and is made use of by Russian officials in the United States; and he says that the amount he (Strobel) receives for the same has been openly stated, namely, the sum of twenty-five dollars a- week. « Whereof an attestation being required, I have granted this under my notarial firm and seal. "Done at the City of New York, in the said State of New York, the 26th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, 1855 « In proemissorum fidem. «. m. A. Thoman. "Charles Edwards, '* 35 Pine street, New York." " Major Henry Jacob Fack, of Newark, New Jersey, United States, swears that before the revolution in Baden he was an officer in the Bavarian Artillery-that he knew every man in the saia artillery— that he understands thut Captain Max Strobel gave out that he was not in the Bavarian Artillery at aU. The Major, however, has a recollection that there was a man of the name of Strobel in some other branch of the army, m a subordinate capacity, who lay under a criminal charge." * Yet one more, Dr Reuss, and he is really only worth notice among the crowd of Lord Clarendon's friends, because, he " Gote a cousin in London, an Ambassador of a German Kingdom." 21 Yes. and he is not the only one. '; Sir .'-I i,ope that your Excellency wiU be a gentleman agamste me. One day my lady toll to me: ' Look out whatt you do and trust not to mutch.' I answert her : 'If I dont md more a place, lam sur to find satisfaction, then an Eng- hshman 13 every time a gentleman ! Now, Sir, I must hear every day: « You see noio wat kind of gentleman you did find tnthe EngUsh Governementr And in deed-^Sir Gaspard le Marehant treated me in a verry mean manner, Hke a man out the caste of the people. He dont know, that I am out a family as good as him self, and I like to be a gentleman forever, wat I cannot be, wehn you dont give me satisfaction, I can give you any security for my [? illegible]. I gote letters to somme gentlemen in the U.S. service, -to gentlemen oiporoer ; this letter wdl be given to you-if you be a genlleman against me. "Sir! In ENTHOUSiASMEfor//er^fom?« Majesty I lost now my existense. It is the same with me, likewise the 1,100 men m the West. I am sure that Her Majesty will never be satisfait with such a treat of gentlemen, who like to go in her Majesty's service. And you cane exspect that I will^nd cx^jind my rigth, and iUt must be before the Thronel I gote a cousin in London-an^wiamc^orofa German KiNGDOM,_the next cmsm to my lady! Think you that he wiU do notUng for " I know also somme other men in London, who know to fand the way to Her glorious Majesty every day ! « Then, Sir, / am ruined, without my fault ; then Sir Gaspard can not spick t' at I didn't done my bussiness ! That was an verry simple intrigue of Mr Preston. "Sir I satisfait me now, and you will find out that I like lo do every time like a gentleman. " In the best trust to your Excellency, I remain, &c., " Dr Reuss. I' » 1«. *" ■>j3!sdsk*^'^ 28 I 1 ■ ■ 1 1 ii« n It I " Washington, August 11, 1^55, 11 o'clock. " P-S. — I didn't understand how Sir Gaspard could treat a man in such a manner— a man who is seduced by his name, and who gave up his place and existence for his call 1 ! I It is, in deed, to much for the logic of a man of philosojMe and reason, "Yours, " Dr Reuss." Can there be two opinions as to the character of these men. Does Mr Crampton or docs Lord Clarendon venture to deny that these men, that the "Dear Strobel," of the 13th of May, the " Russian spy " of the 26th of October, were employed by the British Government ? That they did recruit in the United States? Does Mr Crampton even condescend to say why he gave a telegraphic cypher to Hertz? (' Blue Book,' page 54.) Or to deny having done so? No, a thousand times, no. There is no attempt at an answer to the American case. Mr Crampton only denies the hiring and retaining in the United States. He is charged with being connected with parties who infringed the United States' laws and that charge He does not dare to meet. This is Avhat he does give to justify himself. This farrago of absurdity, this tissue of nonsense, from a third-rate American paper is gravely produced by Mr Crampton, adopted by Lord Clarendon, cind submitted to JParliament, as evidence. The extract is from the Pennsylvanian, quoted by Mv Crampton : — " ' England for centuries has been bullying and bribing the world ; ' ' her insolence is astounding.' ' In the Pacific, m the Atlantic, on the Istlmms, everywhere, that haggard voluptuary Great Britain, who has been so long drunk with the Wood of other nations that .he now reels and totters with her own inanity, glares upon U3 with her red eyeballs, and bids us depart.' ♦ England is a harlot '-^a whitened sepulehre, &c. «ir Gaspard le Marehant and Mr Crampton are base conspirators,' and, in the opinion of the editor, a disgrace to the Order of the Garter,' to which, he thanks Cxod, he, being a simple Republican, does not beloncr."' 1 ah ! ° Is there any doubt as to the real state of the case on Lord Clarendon's own showing? They had dirty work to do, and got dirty agents to do it. hZl rT n"" ^''''^'''' *^"^ ^'^'^'^'^^ --^ de- based the Queen's Commission. Being/<,«„^,,, they defrauded their miserable tools of their pay, because to pay would have been openly to acknowledge them. ^ ^ The American Government may have mistatcd their case, hey may have used improper language, they may have in some respects pursued a wrong and objectionable course, inat IS their business. Let the people of the United States settle that ; we have nothing to do with it. But the conduct of our Government ^s an English question. How does Lord Clarendon conclude? ^ff^^'o^llt^^ZT:^^^^^ Mr Barclay in the mu8t obsorve that Mr Barclay repp vprlJnr ^*- *^® undersigned sons in the service of the United Sfn?o« S^^^^'^^r ?° ""^^^ from per- barquo Maury was fitt.C ouMviti. ? ' ^^"?'°g *» the belief that the and at variant ^dth the ne°"tra it v t^Tr Tl\' ^^ ^"'^^^^ ^^teresS! Mr Barclay's bouudeu du"; rj^nm^i cl'^rh-^hf ^'1''' ^■\''^^ de,ay to her Majesty's Mi,usterTwXi MrTT ""'fr^ United «tate. in ord.r ^2.^^^, C^ir^Sr^^i do > I, f i ■ sulll ie„f 'f^.llT"'"'""'^ the,../;;,.,/,./. cn«?a.ainHt (ho Maury to bo Bullicient to eal or procoediUKS on tlioir part. Such procoediutj were S rcLtl U'll :' m'^ ^^ them.and not b'y Mr Barcla?. whosi conduct m regard to tho Maury was in strict perfornmneo of Lis duty, and receired the approval of her Majesty's Government. ^ nfrnr^nf ""f ?^"/'^, .^^ ^^'^ ^«t PO'D*. tho undcrsigncd must refer to tho offers of satisfac ion, and to tto explanations already made, and to tho repeated expression of the sincere' regret of her J&aTesty's Govem- ment, if contrary to their intentions, and to their reiterated direc- States. ^ " """^ infringement of tho laws of tho United tlirGovrn*!^rnr^^.i?"TT''°rh'* *^® satisfaction of communicating to tiio (xovernment of the United States the statements and declarations of her Majesty's Mbister at Washington and of her Majesty's Con- fi.r i""''" ^7^{;°°ient of the United States had been led to suppose that the law and he sovereign rights of the United States had Tt been respected b^ her Majesty's Government, and. relying upon evidence deemed to So trustworthy, they believea that that iLlndTose rights TnLr^ '""hfu^ T? ^.'f'J" "S*'"*^- ^f ^"''h had been the casS tho ?nd W M • ''l^^'rP'''^'^ ^^^*"' ^"'^1^ ^^^^e been entitled to demand! and her Majesty's Government would not have hesitated to afford the most ample satisfact on. for no discredit can attach to tho f?ank ad! MaZv'f°rn'°'''P^'*! reparation of an unauestionable wrong. Her S.. ^ • ^°^^™1?^°*' liowever unequivocally disclaim any intention cither to infringe the law or to disregard the policy, or not to respect UniteTstl^ "^M ' "^ the United States, an/ the Government o7tho United States will now for the first time learn that her Maiesty's Mimsterat Washington, and her Majesty's Consuls at New Sk S^'^P'''%^^'^ ^?°r "*f ^^•^'"'^'y ^ffi--^ tliat they have n^t com- mitted any of the acts that have been imputed to them The Govern- ment of tho United States will now also for the first time have an opportunity of weighing the declarations of four gentlemeTof unim- ought to be placed. The undersigned cannot but express the earnest hope of her iMajesty's Government that these explanations and assur- ances may prove satisfactory to tho Government of the United States and effectually remove any misapprehension which may have hitherto existed; and fie cannot doubt that such a result will a^fford as much Pleasure to the Government of the United States as to that oHicr Majesty by putting an ^end to a difference which has been deeply regretted by her Majesty's Government, for there are no two countS U J/s'f b«""^l'?y st'-onKer ties or by higher considerations than the United Sta es and Grea Britain to maintain unbroken tho relations of perfect cordiality and friendship. viauuiw ui " The undersigned, &c. "(Signed) "Clabendon." He docs not venture to reply to the request for the rccal of Mr Crampton and the Consuls; he merely submits then- denial. U <1 T),at denial 1,„. hccn almwn not to meet the case mi.cd I,y .1.0 (lovernmen. of ,!,„ Unitcl State. Even if it w„, „ fuU and con,,,loto denial, „l,at effeet could it produce „""»"." known t.,at tl,e prisoner Ilert^ „„, defended at Z e",!' of the Br t .h Authoritie-, when Mr Consul Mathowa X" l'»vuig paid Hertz money f ' The Whig, have got a theory that it h time to show flrmne.. toward, the United States, that wo have too W been mthehal.it of giving them whatever they migU a7 »uppos,ng that they asked loudly ; that the two tat Bound^ Treaties are evidence of this, that by the one we gratdtou^ bTntl'"''"'""^ "'«^"°' ™'""' -<• '-"'""^^ burton treaty was a mere capitulation. Tiiat our reputation abroad has been lowered by the oni: t tlTr" ^''' ^ ^"^^^^^"' ''^ ^-*«^ State's ha^ only to talk of war .n order to obtain from ua all she asked. lenUndTbLlre.'"^ '^^" "^"' '''' ^^^^^^^"^^ ''^y -" It i8 unfortunately too true that the Americans, in every negotiation, have obtained undue advantages from ns. llie reaaon is very simple :— They employ men of business who have some comnre- hcnsion of the merits of their own case. We employ Downing-strcet officials, not only ignorant of the t ue mterests of the country and the colonies, but who would blush to have it thought that they were reduced so low as to be forced to understand them. The Americans despatch their business; we send ours to the Circumlocution Office. Now it seems that the result not being at all satisfactory, Street, a " decided cour.e," to be taken for the future. Ihis - decided course," it is argued, will not be dan- gerous because the interest, of the South, the great pro- ducers of eotton, wouM be so perilled by war wfth Great ':'^^^^Ti. 32 i"1 : i ^ I 98,603,720 dollars. Britain, tiiat it is conHidercd certain that they will dissolve the Union sooner than sec the English market closed to them. No doubt the interests of the South are directly engaged in favour of peace— no doubt the political power of the South is very great. But apart from the injustice of attributing such an un- patriotic policy to the Southern States, for that is not an English question, is it true that such would be the result ? Is it safe to risk, on such an issue, the prosperity of millions of our fellow-subjects, who give either their capital or their labour to the cotton manufacture ? It is not only politically false that such would be the course of the Southern States, but the following figures from the United States' Census of 1850, prove that there is no such preponderating material interest as would induce it. The annual value of the Cotton Crop of the United States is This wo are to regard as a heavy recognisance to keep the peace, in fact, as depriving them of their best resource if estreated. Let us now take the annual value of some other articles not dependent on « British market. We find Indian Corn - . 296,035,522 dollars. Wheat - . - 100,485,944 „ ^% - ■ - 96,870,494 „ ^"^8 - - - 43,975.253 dollars. Butter, Milk, and Eggs - 67,412,043 „ with various others, which, together (exclusive, of course, of Cotton) give a total of - . - 1,228,087,606 „ The acreage of the United States producing Cotton is - - . 5,000,000 acres. Thut of the abovc-nuniod products - 82,.500,000 V * . n.&.-m 88 We here sec that the interest wh.M, u • meat tut ,vc do not venture on, in the e.» ' f 11: 2 f no co,„,„e.c „1 i,„p„H„„ee to „, U not in value e^t 8 ,.er cent, of the annual produetion of the country The proposed course may he "decided," but we choose a most unfortunate time to enter upon it Wo pick out the only case in which wc have ever been clearly and d.st,nctly in the wrong, and then disc ,s and q arrel about that, with the full knowledge that w have another d,scu»s,on pending with the United States of very much greater .mportanee, and in which the greatest possibll .d and ass,sta„co would result to us if the recruiting .Question had been settled .n a friendly spirit. As it is we sha 1 otter on the final d.scussion of the Central American ,,uest n v.th the gr.at disadvantage that when a fair, manly nd' honourable course was open to us, we did nLt cl J; to It is of course impossible to form an opinion here as to the course that the American Government will take on receipt of Liord Llarcndon's despatch. They may send Mr Crampton away, or they may allow hun to remain. J J """^^ lu either case the evil is done. The feeling of ill-wUl is raised. "• A whole people are convinced that the Government of this country has not merely outraged them by breaking their laws, but msultcd .hen, by false and evasive explanations. 0"cful creditable, and truthfuUtatcmont at first would have avoided a state of things so much to he deplored As for Lord Clarendon's reply it is indeed difficult .„ decide by.t, who cuts the most contemptible figure; and of .e whole party, Crampton and Hertz, who stofe the wa 1 Clarendon and S.robol, the Uussianspy; Palmerston ami Keuss, '■ who goto a German cousin - B.^chy and the per. D 34 r- . i" ■;' jui-ed Policeman of New York; the Honourable and ahppcry Joseph Howe; Sir Gaspard lo Marclmnt and Kucntzel; Mathew. who paid the money at Jones; Colonet Froser and Colonel Clarke, Bruce McDonald, Angus Mc Donald, Lieutenant Preaton, Asehenfeld, Shumann, and iJaron von Schwarzenhorn, who are to be blamc