British flag, under which I was taken on the high seas.
I was brought here from a sick bad, at an hour's notice, and have been-afflicted in my confinement with partial paralysis; and I am sure that this much said of the extremity of my situation will be sufficient to acquit me of importunity in again seeking at the hands of your Lordship a termination of my sufferings. I have the honor, &c., your obedient servant, Edward A. Pollard,
X. British Legation, Washington, D. C., July 17, 1864. Sir:
Your letter of the 11th instant reached me yesterday.
In reply to the question which you ask, I have to inform you that I received yesterday afternoon the answer of Her Majesty's Government to the dispatches which I addressed to them on the subject of the capture of the Greyhound, and in which I enclosed copies of your letters to me.
The general instructions of Her Majesty's Government preclude my Interfering without special order from them, in behalf of American citize
