Correspondence Respecting Iron-Clad Vessels
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Excerpt from Correspondence Respecting Iron-Clad Vessels: Building at Birkenhead My Lord, It is with unaffected regret that I perform the duty incumbent on me, as the Representative of the Government of the United States, of laying before you copies of a letter from the Consul of the United States at Liverpool, and of four depositions, all intended to show a determined perseverance in the same acts of hostility at the port of Liverpool, which have formed the subject of my remonstrances almost from the day that I had the honour first to occupy this post. In many preceding communications I have endeavoured to set forth the facts which appear to me to prove beyond the possibility of a doubt, the establishment on the part of the insurgents in the United States of a systematic plan of warfare upon the people of the United States, carried on from the port of Liverpool, as well as in less degree from other ports of this kingdom. In this policy, the persons who have been sent out, and have acted as agents, have received the aid and effective co-operation of numbers of Her Majesty´s subjects. The results of this conduct have been felt in the dispatch of numbers of steam-vessels laden with arms and munitions of war of every description, together with other supplies well adapted to procrastinate the struggle, with the purpose of breaking a blockade legitimately established, and fully recognized by Her Majesty in the proclamation issued by her forbidding all such acts. It is needless to point out to your Lordship how exclusively this business has been carried on by British subjects in British vessels, and how much the burden of the war has been increased by the necessity of maintaining a corresponding naval force on the ocean in order to suppress it. Not yet will I enlarge upon the use to which the British Islands of Bermuda and New Providence have been put by British subjects, as convenient points for the storing of all these supplies to the end that they may be more easily dispatched to their illegal destination. But not satisfied with the aid thus obtained, the next step of the agents alluded to has been to enlist the aid and co-operation of British subjects in constructing for their use steam-vessels expressly adapted to the object of carrying on war against the commerce of the people of the United States. The extent to which this has been actually procured has been made visible to your Lordship in the various remonstrances heretofore presented by myself to your attention, unhappily too little heeded to secure prevention, and still more by the fact, that for all the vessels now on the ocean engaged in the work of depredation on the commerce of the United States, British subjects must be held responsible in regard to their construction, equipment, manning, and outfit. Furthermore, it appears that the aforesaid agents, under express instructions from the so-called authorities of the insurgents, who soon fell short in the pecuniary means to conduct their extensive warlike operations, have solicited the assistance of Her Majesty´s subjects in this kingdom in advancing to them the funds to be appropriated to their objects. The purpose of this application to carry on the war with the people of the United States with the means thus raised was distinctly declared. To that end a loan of 3,000,000l. Sterling was proposed. That negotiation was entered into, and the means have actually been obtained in a great measure from the contributions of Her Majesty´s subjects. Thus it is manifest that all of those things denominated the sinews of war, to wit, men and money, ships, arms, gunpowder, and supplies, have been continuously furnished by Her Majesty´s subjects almost from the beginning of the contest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare an
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