Office of the Historian

No. 23.
Mr. Lowell to Earl Granville.

Legation of the United States,
London, February 24, 1882. (Received March 1.)

My Lord: I have the honor to acquaint you that the Acting Secretary of State has transmitted to me a resolution of the House of Representatives, a copy of which I inclose herewith, by which the President is requested to furnish the information therein specified concerning the arrest and imprisonment of American citizens by the British Government.

The Acting Secretary desires me to submit to him a full and accurate report on the subject with as little delay as practicable. As there are many such cases of arrest and imprisonment, of which I cannot conveniently obtain the particulars excepting through the kind offices of your lordship, I respectfully ask that you will cause me to be furnished with the information requested by the resolution, so far as the same may be properly afforded by Her Majesty’s Government.

[Inclosure in No. 23.]

resolution.

January 31, 1882.

Forty-seventh Congress, First Session.

Congress of the United States. In the House of Representatives,

Resolved, That the President be requested to obtain a list of all American citizens, naturalized or native-born, under arrest or imprisonment by authority of the British [Page 251] Government, with a statement of the cause or causes of such arrest and imprisonment, and especially such of said citizens as may have been thus arrested and imprisoned under the suspension of the habeas corpus in Ireland; and, if not incompatible with the public interest, that he communicate such information, when received, to this House, together with all correspondence now on file in the Department of State relating to any existing arrest and imprisonment of citizens as aforesaid.

Attest:

EDW. McPHERSON, clerk.