Her Majesty’s Treasury to Laird Brothers.
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Gentlemen: I am commanded by the lords commissioners of her Majesty’s treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 29th ultimo, in which you protest against the measures which her Majesty’s government have felt it their duty to adopt for effecting and maintaining the seizure of the two iron-clad vessels at Birkenhead.
I am desired to state, in reply thereto, that their lordships can only refer you to the notice of the cause of seizure conveyed in the letter addressed to your firm by the collector of customs on the 27th ultimo, and that their lordships must decline to enter into any discussion of the subject with you before the investigation which the case will necessarily receive in a court of law.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead.