No. 49

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt on the 1st instant of
Your Graces 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 of 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.