Office of the Historian
No. 8.

Mr. Hammond to Mr. Waddington.

Foreign Office, December 12, 1863.

Sir: I am directed by Earl Russell to transmit to you herewith, to be laid before Secretary Sir George Grey, copies of papers, as marked in the margin,* respecting the enlistment at Queenstown of various British subjects to serve on board the United States steam vessel-of-war the Kearsarge.

The law officers are of opinion that the men who so enlisted on board the Kearsarge should be prosecuted;under the foreign enlistment act; and Lord Russell directs me to say that he is of opinion that such prosecution should be instituted as soon as sufficient evidence is collected to sustain it.

I am, &c.,

E. HAMMOND.
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