Letter

The Right Honorable the Earl of Derby to Edwards Pierrepont, September 14, 1876

Author

The Right Honorable the Earl of Derby

Recipient

Edwards Pierrepont

Date

September 14, 1876

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 3 in No. 35.]

Lord Derby to Mr. Pierrepont.

Foreign Office, September 14, 1876.

Sir: With reference to my letter of the 30th ultimo, I have the honor to acquaint you that Her Majesty’s secretary of state for the home department, to whom your note of the 23d ultimo, respecting the case of the convict Condon, was referred, has informed me that he is unable to give any other answer to it than that which was returned by the prime minister in the House of Commons on the 23d of May last, to the inquiry addressed to him as to the intentions of the government in regard to the Fenian prisoners.

That answer was to the effect that Her Majesty’s government were not at present prepared to advise Her Majesty to extend her clemency to those prisoners.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

DERBY.

The Hon. Edwards Pierrepont.

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.