George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon was an English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family. He served a succession of Whig and Liberal administrations. This included as Viceroy in famine-stricken Ireland and, on the first of three occasions as Foreign Secretary, as the United Kingdom's chief representative at the Congress of Paris which ended the Crimean War.
Mr. Adams to Lord Clarendon. Legation of the United States, London, December 28, 1865. My Lord: Entertaining no desire to reopen the questions already discussed in connection with the steamer…