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your Lordship's information. It was surely an odd way of proceeding to furnish at once the warning in time to provide against its execution! * * * * * _Mr. Adams_. I deeply regret a painful necessity which compels me to make a representation touching the conduct of Consul Bunch at Charleston. A private and opened letter, intercepted on the person of a naturalized American citizen and colonel in the confederate army,--Robert Mure, bearer of dispatches to Great Britain,--disclosed these words: 'Mr. Bunch, on oath of secrecy, communicated to me that the first step to recognition was taken. _So prepare for active business_ BY THE FIRST OF JANUARY.' _Lord Russell_. I will without hesitation state to you _that, in pursuance of an agreement between the British and French governments, Mr. Bunch was instructed to communicate to the persons exercising authority in the so-called confederate States, the desire of those governments that certain articles of the declaration of Paris should be observed by them in their hostilities(!)_ But regarding the other statement, I as frankly say, Her Majesty's government have not recognized, and are not prepared to recognize, the so-called confederate States as a separate and independent power. _Mr. Seward (aside to Mr. Adams)_. The President revokes the exequatur of Consul Bunch, who has not only been the bearer of communications between the insurgents and a foreign government in violation of our laws, but has abused equally the confidence of the two governments by reporting, without the authority of his government, and in violation of their own policy, as well as of our national rights, that the proceeding in which he was engaged was in the nature of a treaty with the insurgents, and the first step toward a recognition by Great Britain of their sovereignty. His whole conduct has been, not that of a friend to this government, nor of a neutral even, but of a partisan of faction and disunion. * * * * * _Lord Lyons_. My government are concerned to find that two British subjects, Mr. Patrick and Mr. Rahming, have been subjected to arbitrary arrest. _Mr. Seward_. At the time of arrest it was not known they were British subjects. They have been released. _Lord Lyons_. They applied for habeas corpus, and its exercise was refused. Congress has not suspended the writ. Our law officers say that the authority of Congress is
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