OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BE LAID BEFORE THE Tribunal of Arbitration, TO BE CONVENED AT GENEVA UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1872. 283. h. 117. This is a facsimile reprint of the United States Official Case, page for page, and line for line, in order that the references of the two editions may be interchangeable. CHISWICK PRESS:-PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS, TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. TABLE OF CONTENTS. When the President's proclamation was received in Great Britain.... Opinion of law officers taken on an imperfect copy........... Lord John Russell and the insurgent commissioners discuss the recognition 52 II. THE UNFRIENDLY COURSE PURSUED BY GREAT BRITAIN TOWARD THE UNITED STATES FROM THE OUTBREAK TO THE CLOSE OF THE INSURRECTION-Cont'd. Answers of the French government... Effect of recognition of a state of war... The Queen's proclamation......... Uncertainty of Her Majesty's government.. Effect of the Queen's proclamation... Mr. Bright's views The sovereign right to issue such a proclamation not denied... It was an unfriendly act... And issued with an unfriendly purpose........ M. Rolin-Jacquemyns on the Queen's proclamation....... Unfriendly conduct of Great Britain as to the declarations of the congress The instructions to Lord Lyons might have been regarded as a cause of The duties recognized by that act.......... 109 Royal commission to revise the foreign enlistment act of 1819. 113 |