No. 42

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt on the 1st
Instant of Your Grace's Circular of the 1st of June last,
informing me with reference to former instructions, that in
order to give full effect to the principle of neutrality which
the Queen is desirous of observing in the contest between the
United States and the so styled Confederate States of North
America, that Her Majesty has been pleased to interdict the
Armed Ships and also the Privateers of both parties from
carrying Prizes made by them into the Ports, Harbours,
Roadsteads, or Waters of the United Kingdom, or any of Her Majesty's Colonies or Possessions abroad.

I have in reply to inform Your Grace, that in obedience
to Her Majesty's Commands, I will take measures to secure the
observance of this prohibition within the limits of this Government.