No. 40.
Mr. Lowell
to Earl Granville.
London, April 3, 1881. (Received April 4.)
My Lord: I have the honor to acquaint, you that I have received an application to intercede on behalf of Mr. Patrick Slattery, who is confined in Limerick County jail, under the protection of person and property act (Ireland), and who incloses a certificate of his naturalization as a citizen of the United States on the 17th December, 1872, which seems to be in proper form.
I have already communicated to your lordship a telegram which I received on the 4th March last, in which I was directed to say that the President hoped the lord-lieutenant of Ireland would be instructed to exercise the powers intrusted to him by the first section of the act in question, to order early trials in the cases of the suspects mentioned in that telegram, and in all other cases in which Americans might be arrested. I beg, therefore, that the President’s request may be granted in the case of Mr. Slattery, who states that he has been imprisoned since the 25th July last.
I have, &c.,