APPENDIX VOL. III.

GENEVA EDITION.

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES.

1. Mr. Seward to Mr. Dallas, March 9, 1861, (communicated to Lord
J. Russell, April 8.) Instructions of the President as to the lan-
guage to be held with regard to the seceded States. Mr. Dallas
is to endeavor to prevent the success of any efforts to procure a
recognition of their independence by Great Britain...
2. Lord J. Russell to Lord Lyons, April 12, 1861. Forwarding copy
of the above dispatch. His observations to Mr. Dallas. Her
Majesty's government were in no hurry to recognize the separa-
tion as complete and final, but could not bind themselves as to
the future..

3. Lord Lyons to Lord J. Russell, April 15, 1861, (received April 30.)
Capture of Fort Sumter. Proclamation of the President, calling
out 75,000 militia...

4. Lord J. Russell to the lords commissioners of the admiralty, May 1, 1861. Civil war in America imminent, if not already begun. Telegraphic intelligence that steps have been taken by the southern confederacy for the issue of letters of marque. The British squadrons on the North American and West Indian stations should be re-enforced. No partiality or preference to be shown to either party

5. British consul at New York to Lord J. Russell, April 23, 1861, (received May 5.) Proclamation of the president of the southern confederacy for the issue of letters of marque. President Lincoln's proclamation of blockade..

6. Lord Lyons to Lord J. Russell, April 22, 1861, (received May 10.) Secession of Virginia. Fears for the safety of Washington. Progress of events..

7. Lord Lyons to Lord J. Russell, April 22, 1861, (received May 10.) Forwarding copy of proclamation of the President of the United States, dated April 19, declaring a blockade of the ports of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Also proclamation of president of Confederate States inviting applications for letters of marque...

8. Mr. Seward to Mr. Dallas, April 20, 1861, (communicated to Lord J. Russell, May 11.) Sending copy of President Lincoln's proclamation of April 19, declaring a blockade of the southern ports, and threatening any persons molesting a vessel of the United States with punishment for piracy..

9. Lord Lyons to Lord J. Russell, April 27, 1861, (received May 14.) Forwarding note from Mr. Seward, of April 27, inclosing copies of the above proclamation and announcing that the blockade will be extended to Virginia and North Carolina...

10. Lord Lyons to Lord J. Russell, May 2, 1861, (received May 17.) Communications with Mr. Seward as to the enforcement of the blockade. Proclamation of April 27, declaring it to be extended to the ports of Virginia and North Carolina, and notification of its enforcement on the coast of Virginia..

11. Lord Lyons to Lord J. Russell, May 4, 1861, (received May 21.) Mr. Seward's assurance that the blockade will be conducted as strictly according to the recognized rules of public law, and with as much liberality toward neutrals as any blockade ever was by a belligerent. His note to the Spanish minister on the same subject

[IV] *12. Lord Lyons to Lord J. Russell, May 2, 1861, (received May
17.) Communications with Mr. Seward as to an order given by
the United States Government to their naval officers for the
seizure of the British vessel Peerless, on suspicion of being in-
tended as a southern privateer....

13. Act passed by the congress of the Confederate States, May 6, 1861,
recognizing the existence of war with the United States, and
concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods............
14. Further act, passed May 14, to regulate the sale of prizes and the
distribution thereof.....

REGULATIONS ISSUED BY THE

DECLARATION OF NEUTRALITY AND
GOVERNMENT OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY AND BY FOREIGN GOV-
ERNMENTS.

1. Her Britannic Majesty's proclamation of neutrality, May 13, 1861..
2. Regulations and instructions published by Her Britannic Majesty's
government:

Letter from the foreign office to the admiralty, colonial, war, and
India offices, interdicting armed cruisers and privateers of
either belligerent from carrying prizes into British ports, June
1, 1861..
Letter from the foreign office to the above department, containing
regulations as to the admission of ships of war or privateers of
either belligerent in British ports, January 31, 1862..
Dispatch from the secretary of state for the colonies to the gov-
ernor of the Bahama Islands, containing further regulations
on the same subject, October 6, 1863..

Circular instructions to governors of colonies respecting the
treatment of prizes captured by Federal or British cruisers, if
brought into British waters, June 2, 1864...
Notification in the London Gazette, prohibiting the entrance of
any ship of war of either of the belligerents into British ports
for the purpose of being dismantled or sold, September 8, 1864.
Letter from the foreign office to the admiralty, home, colonial,
war, and India offices, withdrawing the restrictions on the
stay of ships of war in British ports, and on the amount of
coal to be embarked on board of them, May 11, 1865..
Letter from the foreign office to the above departments recog-
nizing the termination of the civil war, and giving directions
as to the treatment of confederate cruisers which may be
found in British waters, June 2, 1865.

3. Declarations and notifications issued by other governments :

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*NEUTRALITY LAWS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

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JUDGMENTS IN THE COURTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

Summing-up, verdict, and judgments, in the British court of ex

chequer, in the case of the Alexandra

Judgments of the Supreme Court of the United States:

Moodie rs. The ship Alfred...

The Divina Pastora

The Estrella

La Amistad de Rues.

The Santissima Trinidad and Santander.

The Gran Para..

The United States rs. Quincy.

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN, 1817-1819.

Report of the royal commission appointed to inquire into the character working, and effect of the laws of Great Britain for the enforcement of neutrality, 1867....

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