[1167] For facts and much correspondence on the Phinney case see Parliamentary Papers, 1864, Commons, LXII. "Correspondence respecting the Enlistment of British subjects in the United States Army." Also "Further Correspondence," etc.
[1168] Hansard, 3rd Ser., CLXXIV, p. 628, and CLXXV, p. 353, and CLXXVI, p. 2161. In the last of these debates, July 28, 1864, papers were asked for on "Emigration to America," and readily granted by the Government.
[1169] Walpole, History of Twenty-five Years, Vol. I, Ch. VI.
[1170] In the Cabinet, Palmerston (and to some extent Russell) was opposed by Granville and Clarendon (the latter of whom just at this time entered the Cabinet) and by the strong pro-German influence of the Queen. (Fitzmaurice, Granville, I, Ch. XVI.)
[1171] Mason Papers. Slidell to Mason, March 13, 1864.
[1172] This came through a letter from Donoughmore to Mason, April 4, 1864, stating that it was private information received by Delane from Mackay, the Times New York correspondent. The expected Southern victory was to come "in about fourteen days." (Mason Papers.)
[1173] Ibid.
[1174] Mason Papers. Lindsay to Beresford Hope, April 8, 1864.
[1175] Ibid., Lindsay to Mason, May 10, 1864.
[1176] July 18, 1864.