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nstrances, forced off the steamers as prisoners of war, or apprehended rebels. Upon this state of facts, with a logic worthy of the intellectual Times, and of the leading exponent of British opinion, that journal charges this affair, not to Commander Wilkes, nor to the Yankee Government, but to the innocent, passive, and helpless victims of the outrage. The great complaint of the British Cabinet was that the British flag had been insulted, and British honor outraged, by the proceedings of WilkWilkes; and with a good deal more reason and logic could the London Times call upon the British public at home to fender no ovation to the flag which had been the cause of the trouble, and to regard the British honor that had been outraged as of no more worth than "two negroes." "This flag and this honor has cost us," it might say, "three millions of pounds sterling; and we owe it to the Exchequer to taboo and pay no mark of consideration to the two baubles that have put us to so much cost. Let the