ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE: The British Government and the Affair of the Trent; England Sends an Ultimatum to the United States (12/16/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 12/16/1861

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The London Observer, a Ministerial organ, says in its issue of Saturday Evening, Nov. 30: A special Messenger of the Foreign Office has been ordered to carry our demands to Lord LYONS, and will proceed by the packet from Queenstown to-day. The public will be satisfied to know that these demands are for an apology, and to insist on the restitution to the protection of the British flag of those who were violently and illegally torn from that sacred asylum.

The Observer adds: "There is no reason why they should not be restored to the quarterdeck of the British Admiral at New-York, or Washington itself, in the face of some ten or twelve men of war, whose presence in the Potomac would render the blustering Cabinet at Washington as helpless as the Trent was before the guns and cutlasses of the San Jacinto. It is no fault of ours, if it should come even to this."

The Morning Star declares the statement of instruction having been sent to Lord LYONS to obtain the restitution of the Confederate Commissioners or to take his leave of Washington was premature, and so exaggerated as to be virtually untrue.

The Times, of the 30th ult., makes the important announcement that the Cabinet has come to the conclusion that the act of the Captain of the San Jacinto in seizing passengers on a British vessel, and carrying them forcibly away, is a clear violation of the law of nations, and one for which reparation must be at once demanded. In all probability the first steamer will carry out instructions to Lord LYONS to demand reparation for the ill-advised act of seizing MASON and SLIDELL while under the protection of the British flag.

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One Week Later from Europe: The British Government and the Affair of the Trent – 2-4
The Charleston Conflagration: The Destruction of the City Probably Complete – 4-5
Important from Kentucky: Concentration of Gen. Buell’s Army on Green River – 5
Important from Missouri: The Arrangements of Gen. Pope for Suppressing the Rebellion – 5-6
Lexington Again in Possession of the Rebels – 6
The Case of Gen. Sherman – 6
Editorial: Startling News from England-Imminent Prospect of War – 6-7
Editorial: Secretary Seward’s Dispatches – 7-8
Editorial: Charleston in Ashes – 8

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