Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1882

No. 42.
Earl Granville to Mr. Lowell.

Foreign Office, April 5, 1882.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3d instant, requesting that Mr. Patrick Slattery, a naturalized citizen of the United States, who is detained in Limerick County jail, under the; protection of person and property (Ireland) act, 1881, may be brought to trial at an early date.

In reply, I have the honor to state to you that I have referred this matter to the proper department of Her Majesty’s Government.

I have, &c.,

GRANVILLE