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with the United States, in consequence of the commission of some act — underhand or event — of active sympathy with the Southern rebels, and that the English ministers had determined to wheedle, to prevaricate, and even endeavor to intimidate, Mr. Lincoln from time to time, hoping that eventually the "fortune of arms" would be with the rebels, and then the Queen could and would recognize them. Indeed, Earl Russell used the above very remarkable words in a conversation which he had with Messrs. Yancey, Mann and Rost on the subject. Lord Lyons was instructed to inform Mr. Lincoln that, in case of war with the United States, England would consent to abolish privateering, as between the two countries during the war, if the President would do the same — a modest proposition, truly, coming from a Power boasting even then of having twenty thousand guns on her war ships, to a Power engaged in quelling the most formidable rebellion ever before known. The observations of Messrs. Greg<