No. 9.
Mr. Lowell
to Earl Granville.
London, July 1, 1881. (Received July 2.)
My Lord: I have to thank your lordship for your letter of the 28th ultimo, inclosing a copy of the warrant under which Mr. Joseph B. Walsh was arrested at Castlebar, county Mayo, Ireland, in the month of March last. It appears by the copy of a certificate [Page 246] sent to me that Mr. Walsh was duly admitted by the superior court of the city o New York, on the 16th day of October, in the year 1875, to be a citizen of the United States of America.
I have been instructed by Mr. Blaine to make the necessary inquiries into the cause of Mr. Walsh’s arrest and detention, and I should feel much obliged to your lordship if you could furnish me with a statement of the dates, places, and other details of the specific acts said to have been committed by Mr. Walsh, upon which it was thought proper to issue the warrant in question.
I have, &c.,