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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], The late debate in the British Parliament. (search)
ough in the Government to leave the matter in their hands. With regard to the conveyance of the mails the question had not been fairly represented to the merchants, who had requested that a mail agent should be placed on board vessels carrying mails to Mexico, or that they should be relieved of the obligation of carrying them lest they should be likely to be seized from having hostile correspondence in the mails, and in compliance the Government had relieved them of the obligation. Sir H. Cairns asked if it was to be understood that vessels carrying mails to a neutral port were regarded as liable to seizure on account of the correspondence in the mails? If that principle was to be laid down the mail packet between Dever and Calais was liable to be seized by an American cruiser. Mr. Malins, in common with all English men, was humiliated at the unaccountable timidity of Government in not making the rights of English merchants respecting, and in protecting English vessels in