Letter

George A. Hamilton to Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, November 3, 1863

Author

George A. Hamilton

Recipient

Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead

Date

November 3, 1863

Type

Letter

Her Majesty’s Treasury to Laird Brothers.

[Immediate.]

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Treasury Chambers, November 3, 1863.

Gentlemen: I am commanded by the lords commissioners of her Majesty’s treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 29th ultimo, in which you protest against the measures which her Majesty’s government have felt it their duty to adopt for effecting and maintaining the seizure of the two iron-clad vessels at Birkenhead.

I am desired to state, in reply thereto, that their lordships can only refer you to the notice of the cause of seizure conveyed in the letter addressed to your firm by the collector of customs on the 27th ultimo, and that their lordships must decline to enter into any discussion of the subject with you before the investigation which the case will necessarily receive in a court of law.

I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

GEO A. HAMILTON.

Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead.

Topics

19th Century Civil War Diplomacy

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗

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.