No. 26.
Mr. Lowell
to Earl Granville.
London, March 6, 1882. (Received March 6.)
My Lord: I have the honor to acquaint you that I received yesterday from Mr. Frelinghuysen a cable dispatch in cipher, of which the following is a translation:
“Referring to the cases of O’Connor, Hart, McSweeney, Walsh, McEnery, and Dal-tol, American citizens imprisoned in Ireland, say to Lord Granville that, without discussing whether the provisions of the force act can be applied to American citizens, the President hopes that the lord lieutenant of Ireland will be instructed to exercise the powers intrusted to him by the first section to order early trials in their (and all other) cases in which Americans may be arrested.”
In transmitting this dispatch to your lordship, I venture to hope that, considering the importance of the matters to which it refers, it may receive the early attention of Her Majesty’s Government.
I have, &c.,