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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Pennsylvania campaign--second day at Gettysburg. (search)
on's Island, the failure of which is attributed to information furnished by the British authorities in Canada. Upon the appearance of this miserable forgery in the English journals, Commander M. F. Maury denounced it over his own signature in the London Times, but a United States journal, in commenting on his letter, reaffirms the authenticity of the report. Under these circumstances, Mr. Mallory addressed a note to the Secretary of State, in which he pronounced the report, from beginning to end, a forgery. The document, however, assumed additional importance in Europe, from the fact that the English Attorney General, in a speech in the House of Commons, in defence of the course of the Ministry on the subject of Laird's rams, quoted it as authentic. On Mr. Benjamin's attention being called to the subject by Mr. Mallory, he wrote a letter to Mr. Slidell, our Commissioner at Paris, directing him to make an official publication explaining that the report was a gross fabrication.