Letter

Hoppin to Granville Leveson-Gower, September 1, 1882

Author

Hoppin

Recipient

Granville Leveson-Gower

Date

September 1, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 2 in No. 237.]

Mr. Hoppin to Lord Granville.

[Immediate.]

Legation of the United States, London, September 1, 1882.

My Lord: I take the earliest opportunity to correct a statement which appears in the Times and other newspapers this morning, that Mr. Stephen J. Meany, who was arrested on the 10th of August at Ennis, under the prevention of crime (Ireland) act, has been instructed by this legation to surrender to his bail. No instructions of any sort have been given to him by this legation.

It is further stated that Mr. Meany, acting on advice from the American Government, Is determined to test the legality of his arrest, and has adopted this mode of bringing the question to a decisive issue. I cannot believe that any such advice has been offered by my government to Mr. Meany. It certainly has not been given to him through this legation.

I have the honor, &c.,

W. J. HOPPIN.

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.