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The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], The dismissal of the British Consuls — official correspondence. (search)
ortunate complications having a tendency to impair the amity which it is equally the interest and the desire of this Government to cherish with that of Great Britain. The President wishes a copy of this dispatch to be placed by you in the hands of Earl Russell. I am, &c., J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State. Hon. James M. Mason, &c., &c., London. Earl Russell to Mr. Mason. Foreign Office, Aug. 19, 1863. J. M. Mason, Esq., &c., &c., Sir: In reply to your letters of the 24th and 29th ultimo, I have to state to you that Mr. Acting Consul Magee failed in his duty to Her Majesty, by taking advantage of the presence of a ship of war of Her Majesty at Mobile to transmit specie to England. This transaction had the character, in the eyes of Her Majesty's Government, of aiding one of the belligerents against the other. Laying aside, however, this question of the conduct of Mr. Acting Consul Magee, of which Her Majesty is the sole judge, I am willing to acknowledge
From New Orleans. The New Orleans correspondent of the Chicago Times, of the 24th ult., gives long dispatches, from which we copy the following: Reliable information here reports the French 7,000 strong in Matamoras. The Texan expedition, I have good authority for stating, is now recalled or abandoned. On one hand it is asserted that the cause for the withdrawal of the expedition was a desire to avoid a conflict with the French; on the other that the troops are now destined for Mobile. Others, again, will have it that a large force is to be forwarded immediately to Charleston for a grand land attack. I think you will find Mobile the destination or next point of attack. I am certain the Texas expedition is abandoned for the present. Great preparations had been made for it. The most of the vessels chartered are now released. The French have evidently stolen a march on our folks, and it is not time yet for a collision. I regret the state of affairs, but cannot hel