No. 10.
Earl Granville to Mr. Lowell.
Sir: I have lost no time in referring to the proper department of Her Majesty’s Government the desire expressed in your letter of the 1st instant to be furnished with a statement of the dates, places, and other details of the specific acts said to have been committed by Mr. Joseph B. Walsh, upon which the warrant was issued for his arrest on the 8th March last, at Castlebar, county Mayo, Ireland.
In reply, I beg leave to remind you that, in the letter which I had the honor to address to you on the 28th ultimo, it was pointed out that Her Majesty’s Government consider that no distinction can be made in these circumstances between foreigners and British subjects, and that, in the case of the latter, the only information given is that contained in the warrant.
I regret, therefore, that I am not in a position to be able to supply you with further details respecting the arrest of Mr. Walsh.
I have,&c.,