Letter

Granville to Robert C. Schenck, March 15, 1872

Author

Granville

Recipient

Robert C. Schenck

Date

March 15, 1872

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 1 in No. 472.]

Lord Granville to General Schenck.

Foreign Office, March 15, 1872. (Received March 19, 1872.)

Sir: With reference to my note of the 16th ultimo, I have the honor to acquaint you that the secretary of state for the home department has stated to me that he has caused inquiry to be made into the subject of your note of the 31st of January, calling attention to information which your Government had received that certain discharged prisoners had been furnished with means by public authorities or prison aid societies in this country in order that they might emigrate to New York. And I now beg to inform you that it appears that the persons in question, being discharged prisoners, were desirous of emigrating to America and were assisted in their object by certain prisoners’ aid societies.

No action, however, was taken in the matter by Her Majesty’s government, who have no power by law to prevent such persons from going wherever they please. Nor has Her Majesty’s government the means of knowing whether the passage-money of these persons was supplied by their relatives in America or by some charitable society.

I have, &c.,

GRANVILLE.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.