Letter
By the President: J. P. Benjamin to Acting Consul Cridland, June 8, 1863
[Enclosure 3 in No. 3.]
Mr. Benjamin to Acting Consul Cridland.
Department of State, Richmond, June 8, 1863.
Sir: Having been informed through Admiral Buchanan that you have been introduced to him as acting English consul at Mobile, and have shown him an official document, signed by Lord Lyons, appointing you to that office you are informed that you cannot be permitted to exercise the functions of that office under that appointment.
As you informed this department that you were going to Mobile to look after British interests unofficially, and failed to communicate the fact that you were bearer of an appointment from Lord Lyons, it is deemed best to avoid any misunderstanding on the subject by requesting you to select some other residence within the confederacy than the State of Alabama.
I am, &c.,
J. P. BENJAMIN.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.