Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

No. 1.

[Extract.]

Mr. Waddington to Mr. Hammond.

Whitehall, January 18, 1864.

I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to transmit to you herewith, to be laid before Earl Russell, a copy of a letter which has been received from the Irish government relative to a man named P. H. Finney, who has recently arrived from America, whose object, there is reason to believe, is to enlist men for the American army.

[Enclosure in No. 1]

Sir J. Larcom to Mr Waddington.

[Extract.]

Dublin Castle, January 13, 1864.

As there appears reason to suppose that Finney’s object is really to enlist men for the American army, though no proof of it has as yet been received, a Strict watch will be kept on his movements.