No. 3.
Earl Granville to Lord Lyons.
My Lord: I have received your excellency’s dispatch of the 6th instant, inclosing a letter from Mr. Kirby, an English gentleman, established with his family at La Ferté Imbault, complaining of the conduct of the German troops in making requisitions on his property; and I have to instruct you to acquaint that gentleman that much as Her Majesty’s government regret the inconvenience and loss to which he and his family were exposed, it is out of their power to interfere to obtain any redress for him, inasmuch as foreigners residing in a country which is the seat of war are equally liable with the natives of this country to have requisitions levied on their property by the belligerents.
I am, &c.,