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The Daily Dispatch: February 01, 1864., [Electronic resource], Correspondence between England and America about British neutrality. (search)
, that it is also lawful to sell, to either belligerent, munitions of war. Upon this subject I beg to call to your notice that no longer ago than the 20th of last November, in answer to the remonstrance of Mexico against an alleged organized system in the United States of aiding France in the war in which she is engaged with that republic, but in which the United States are neutral, Mr. Seward replied by this, among other citations: [After quoting from Mr. Webster's dispatch to Mr. Thompson, Earl Russell proceeds]: It seems clear, on the principle enunclated in these authorities, that, except on the ground of any proved violation of the Foreign Enlistment act, her Majesty's Government cannot interfere with commercial dealings between British subjects and the so styled Confederate States, whether the subject of these dealings be money or contraband goods, or even ships for warlike purposes. Mr. Adams to Earl Russell. Legation of the United States, London, April 6,