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NORTH AMERICA. 
 
 Na, 17. (1864.) 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 RESPECTING THE 
 
 ENLISTMENT 
 
 or 
 
 BRITISH SUBJECTS 
 
 IN THB 
 
 UNITED STATES' ARMY. 
 
 Presented to the House of Commons by Command of Her Majesty. 
 
 1864. 
 
 LONDOjS': 
 FKINTED BY HARRISON ANI> »ONS. 
 
LIST OF 'PAPERS. 
 
 1. — Despatches from Lord Lyons relating to the Proceedings or Report of the Select 
 Committee of the United States' Congress on Immigration, &c. 
 
 [No Return.] 
 
 2. — Correspondence respecting the 
 
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 1 . Consul Lousada to Earl Russell 
 
 Two Inclosures. 
 
 2. Lord Lyons to Earl Russell 
 
 Two Inclosures. 
 
 3. Earl Russell to Lord Lyons 
 
 4. Lord Lyons to Earl Russell 
 
 Nine Inclosures. 
 
 5. Consul Murray to Earl Russell. . 
 
 Six Inclosures. 
 
 6. Consul Lousada to Earl Russell. . 
 
 One Inclosure. 
 
 7. Earl Russell to Lord Lyons 
 
 8. Lord Xy«fns to EcktI Russell 
 
 Thirteen Inclosures. 
 
 9. Lord Lyons to Earl Russell 
 
 Fourteen Inclosures. 
 
 10. Lord Lyons to Earl Russell 
 
 Eight Inclosures. 
 
 1 1 . Lord Lyons to Earl Russell 
 
 Two Inclosures. 
 
 12. Earl Russell to Lord Lyons 
 
 13. Lord Lyons to Earl Russell . , 
 
 Fifteen Inclosures. 
 
 14. Earl Russell to Lord Lyons 
 
 15. Lord Lyons to Earl Russell 
 
 Five Inclosures. 
 
 16. Lord Lyons to Earl Russell 
 
 Three Inclosures. 
 
 17. Lord Lyons to Earl Russell 
 
 One Inclosure. 
 
 18. Lord Lyons to Earl Russell 
 
 Seven Inclosures. 
 
 19. Lord Lyons to Earl Russell 
 
 20. Earl Russell to Lord Lyons 
 
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AETURN to an Address of the House of Lords, dated June 9, 1864 ; 
 
 for— 
 
 1. — "Copies of or Extracts from any Despatches from Her Majesty's Minister at 
 Washington, relating to the Proceedings or Report of the Select Committee 
 of the United States' Congress on Immigration, or to Bills upon that Subject 
 brought into Congress : And also, 
 
 2. — " Copies or Extracts from Despatches or Reports respecting the Enlistment of 
 Irish Immigrants at Boston and Portland in the Month of March last ; 
 
 3, — ^"Or to the Enlistment of any of Her Majesty's Canadian Subjects in the 
 United States Armv." 
 
 1.— -Despatches from Lord Lyons relating to the Proceedings or 
 
 Report of the Select Committee of the United States' 
 
 Con^*ess on Immigration. 
 
 [!!N"o despatches on this subject have been received from Her Majesty's Minister at 
 
 Washington.] 
 
 2. — Correspondence respecting the Enlistment of Irish Immi- 
 grants at Boston and Portland. 
 
 JS^o. 1. 
 Consul Lousada to Earl Russell. — (Received March 4.) 
 
 My Loi-d, Boston, March 15, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to inclose to your Lordship printed Report of the 
 proceedings held by an indignation meeting in reference to the alleged kidnapping of 
 a quantity of Irish labourers brought over to Portland in the steamer "li^^ova Scotian," 
 by one Finney, ostensibly under pretext of obtaining them work and larger wages at 
 the Oochetuate Waterworks, but in reality for the purpose of enlisting them, and 
 obtaining the high bounties now oflFered. I was applied to on their behalf, but have not 
 at present taken any action in the matter, as the meeting is a kind of yigilance Committee, 
 and will sift the affair thoroughly, but I reported details to Her Majesty's Minister at 
 Washington, in case his Lordabip wished to send me any instructions. 
 
 Mr. Kidder, the merchant who is implicated in this transaction, also called on me 
 yesterday, and stated that he meant to have employed them as labourers only. With the 
 information I had in my possession as to the real nature of the scheme, I confined 
 myself to simply hearing what he chose to teU. me. I am informed that Finney is a 
 person of bad reputation, and that the documents he produced in Ireland in defence of 
 his course were not genuine. This, however, will be elicited, and I shall send the Report 
 of the adjourned meeting as soon as it takes place. 
 
 I understand from some of the men, who also have been to my office, that many 
 more deluded Irish are on their road, similarly entrapped, although Mr. Kidder positively 
 denied being cognizant of the fact ; and I hope that I am misinformed thereon. 
 
 The bounties both of the United States and of the several States, added to local 
 premiums, amount to 700 dollars, and even 820 dollars, besides 15 to 26 to the bringer 
 in of a recruit, and as the poor Irish are generally made drunk, and given at the outside 
 25 dollars, the sharks who prey on them collect the balance, and thus a cargo of 120, as 
 in this instance, would net a very large profit to the speculators. 
 
 There are some features in these transactions which involuntarily recall to my mind 
 my experiences in Cuba ; I trust, however, that the publication of what those who hire 
 themselves as labourers may expect on this side will check the traffic. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) F. LOUSADA. 
 
 p.S. — Subsequently to writing this, the "Courier" publishes ''a card" from 
 Mr. Kidder, copies of which I also inclose. 
 
 F. L. 
 
 [222] B 2 
 
2 
 
 Inclosure 1 in No. 1. 
 Newspaper Extract. 
 
 Outrageous Imposition. One Hundred Dublin Young Men Enticed to this 
 Country on false Pretences. — The Irish citizens of Oharlestown and Boston have been 
 greatly excited this week, in consequence of the arrival in Oharlestown of eighty-six 
 young Irishmen from the city of Dublin, under extraordinary circumstances. These 
 young men, 102 in all, left Liverpool on February 27th, in a steamer for Portland, which 
 reached- that city on Wednesday morning, March 9th. The men took an early breakfast 
 and then landed. A few of them strayed away from their companions, but the remainder 
 came on to Boston in the afternoon train, in charge of the Emigrant agent, a Mr. Piiiiiey, 
 under whose inducements and promises they left their home. Upon their arrival in this 
 city, the men were conducted to an old building on Bunker Hill-street, Oharlestown, 
 belonging to Mr. Jerome G. Kidder, of this city, formerly used for his business purposes, 
 but now improved as a " Mission House." At this building nothing was provided for the 
 reception of the men ; no food, although they had eaten nothing since early morning and 
 it was now half-past 9 o'clock ; no bedding, no comforts of any kind, not even straw to 
 sleep upon. After a little while, some crackers and cheese were procured, and a tub of 
 ale was brought in with which the wearied men sought to refresh themselves. In the 
 morning they had whisky for breakfast, and a number of those who partook of it were 
 made senseless. 
 
 Mr. Kidder, the owner of the building, presented himself on the night of their 
 arrival, and told the men, so it is reported by several of them, that the )v'ork they 
 were brought over to do was not ready; but that need not make no difference, they 
 need not be idle a single day ; they could enlist at once, and recommended the 28th, 
 an Irish regiment, to the'm. Upon this, the suspicions were confirmed which had 
 been growing upon the men, that they had been deceived and enticed from their homes 
 upon false pretences. 
 
 The men are fine, stalwart fellows, young mechanics, all from the city of Dublin. 
 One of them, a young man by the name of Ward, is a comedian, who has acted upon the 
 Dublin boards and in the Irish Provinces, in parts like those assumed by Barney Williams 
 and Florence. Their story is, that they were induced to come to this country through 
 the representation of this Mr. Finney, who was announced in the papers as an " emigration 
 agent for the principal railroads in ISTew England, who was commissioned to procure 1,000 
 labourers." The terms he offered them were a free passage, work immediately upon 
 arrival, a new suit of clothes, and 21. a month and found, for wages. Mr. Finney 
 now declares himself to be agent for Mr. Kidder, and Mr, Kidder protests that he caused 
 the men to be brought over here in good faith, actually and bond fide to work upon the 
 Oharlestown waterworks, and that he was ready on Friday to take as many of the men 
 to West Medford as would consent to go, and put them at once to work. He says, more- 
 over, that he has no knowledge of who ordered the liquor to the men on the night of 
 their arrival. It was certainly done without his privity. 
 
 The condition of the men the morning after their arrival in Oharlestown was anything 
 but gratifying. Their number had already been diminished by those left behind at 
 Portland, and of these, the recruiting agents had snapped up eight. Without money, 
 without friends, with scanty clothing, with no means to procure sustenance, they would 
 have suffered greatly, had not kind-hearted countrywomen supplied their wants. 
 Eecruiting agents hovered round them, and in the course of the day gobbled up several. 
 On the evening of Thursday they had another interview with Mr. Kidder, when they 
 were told the hall must be cleared, and they would not have had a place to lay their 
 heads had not Captain John Vf arren, who keeps an establishment on that street, near 
 by, bestirred himself and procured billets for them upon the neighbours round. Yesterday 
 morning they were still in Bunker Hill-street, subsisting upon charity, and still pestered 
 with recruiting agents. In the course of the forenoon Mr. Kidder again appeared among 
 them, offering to take as many as would go to the waterworks at West Medford. But 
 the men had lost confidence in him. They cost Mr. Kidder 70 dollars a head to land 
 them in Boston. It will prove a poor speculation as it has turned out. But if they had 
 taken his recommendation on the night of their arrival, to enlist, he might have made 
 himself whole and something more. 
 
 The Irish citizens of Boston and vicinity, feeling indignant at the imposition 
 practised upon their countrymen, called a meeting at the Stackpole House to investigate 
 the facts in the Ciase, which was very largely attended. Charles F. Donnelly, Esq., was 
 called to the chair, and Edward Kyan was appointed Secretary, The Chairman, in 
 stating the objects of the meeting, recited the circumstances under which the men came 
 
here, as stated in the first part of this article. From the facts as they had been presented 
 to him, he believed that the original intent of parties who brought the men over was to 
 make them part of the quota of Massachusetts. The men themselves think they have 
 been duped, and that it was the intention to sell them to the military service. 
 
 Martin Mc Manus, an employe on the Midland and Great "Western Eailway, one of 
 the emigrants, said to the meeting:— He had full employment at 2s. lOd. a-day, and 
 that he was induced .by the representations of Mr. Finney — free passage, steady work, 
 21. British a-month and board, and two suits of clothes a-year — to come over. He had 
 found no worlc. He was not told by Finney where the work would be, but that he should be 
 treated of the best. Was told on board the ship a party would meet them on the wharf 
 in Portland — a real gentleman and a good friend, who would talie care of them, and they 
 must take off their hats and give him three cheers. Their supper, when they arrived in 
 Bunker Hill Street, after fasting all day, consisted of a barrel of crackers and a cheese, 
 with a knife on it, and the question was, ''Who shall?" and there was a scramble, some 
 getting enough for five, others getting nothing. For breakfast they had buckets of 
 whiskey. That night, without beds, or even straw, enlisting agents were among them all 
 the time. Finney also staid with them. They said the waterworks were done up, and 
 the only thing for them to do was to enlist. Mr. Kidder, himself, told them he could 
 find different men to take them ■ but if they were inclined to enlist, they had better do it, 
 for he had no work for them to do. 
 
 John Glannan, labourer of Dublin, who earned 3s. a-day four or five days in the 
 week, was induced to come on similar representations as Mc Manus had spoken of. Finney 
 would give them nothing at Portland, and at the hall in Charlestown a policeman was 
 stationed on the fii*st night to prevent their going out. Mr. Kidder told them he had 
 work for thirty or forty, but no more, on the waterworks at 1 dollar 25 cents a-day. 
 
 Others made statements of a like character. 
 
 P. R. Sullivan, a friend to Mr. Kidder, expressed his belief that Mr. K. had acted 
 from good motives. Mr. Kidder had written to Finney not to ship any men of the 22nd 
 of February, but they were shipped on the 25th of February, and came unexpectedly. 
 Under the circumstances he had done the best he could. He was not prepared with work 
 for the men, but told them if they thought fit to enlist he should claim 70 dollars from 
 each to reimburse expenses. 
 
 E, Smythe, Representative from Ward 1, Boston, asked if the men were intended 
 for waterworks why their shipment was suspended just at the seasoji was approaching 
 when such work could be prosecuted ? What could mefi do in digging and tearing up 
 the earth in February ? If Mr. Kidder had told his agent not to send more n^en till later 
 in the season there would have been sense in it. He believed that it was intended to have 
 the men here just prior to a certain epoch which all were looking for — the draft, and they 
 would come very handy then. 
 
 Mr. Martin Lynch said he had heard at Concord, 'S. H., long before these men 
 arrived, that this same emigration agent, Mr. Finney, had been engaged last summer in 
 bringing substitutes to 'New Hampshire and selling them. He became notorious as a 
 substitute broker, and made money by it. After he was arrested in Dublin on suspicion 
 of employing men to make soldiers of them, he wrote that he would make 30,000 dollars 
 out of the operation he was then engaged in — engaging men to work on railroads, but 
 really to make substitutes of them. Now, asked Mr. Ryan, if Mr. Kidder was honest 
 in getting these men here, would he select such a person as Finney for his agent ? 
 
 A Voice. — The man who sent Finney was worse than Finney himself. 
 
 Mr. Lynch. — What we want, gentlemen, is to sift this matter to the bottom, find 
 who the guilty persons are and punish them. He concluded by moving that a committee 
 be appointed by the chair to investigate all the facts in the case to report at a future 
 meeting. Adopted, 
 
 Mr. Edward Ryan offered some remarks to the effect that Mr, Kidder ought not to 
 be judged and condemned without a hearing. The meeting had heard one side ; let the 
 other side have a hearing. It might be that after all Mr. Kidder had done nothing worthy 
 of censure. 
 
 The Chairman named as the Committee, Eneas Smythe, Dr. Bath Morris, James 
 Do wling, Edward Ryan, Martin Lynch, Charles F. Donnelly, John Horan, and Michael 
 
 McCaffrey. 
 
 The same gentlemen, with the addition of P. R. Sullivan, were appointed a committee 
 to collect subscriptions for the relief of the immigrants. A subscription list was opened 
 and upwards of 50 dollars was subscribed on the spot. 
 
 A Mr, Shea, one of the emigrants who had just entered the meeting, said he went 
 to the waterworks at West Medford that afternoon, and was introduced to the contractor, 
 Mr. McDonald, That gentleman said that he had never had anything to do with getting 
 
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 men from Ireland to work. Knew nothing about these emigrants until yesterday, when 
 Mr. Kidder came to him and said he had the men here, but seeing how matters had 
 turned he could make no good of them. Mr. McDonald employed twenty-three of the 
 emigi;ants. He expressed the belief that Mr. Kidder had got the men over here for the 
 purpose of enlisting them. 
 
 The Investigation Committee will meet this forenoon at 1 1 o'clock, at the Stackpole 
 House, when Mr. Kidder and Mr. Finney and their friends are invited to be present. 
 
 The meeting stands adjourned to a week from Monday next, at the Hall of tke 
 Constitutional Democratic Club, to hear the report of investigation. 
 
 Messrs. Lynch, Donnelly and Ryan are a Committee to disburse the funds for relief 
 to the destitute emigrants. 
 
 Inclosure 2 in ISo. 1. 
 
 Newspaper Extract. 
 
 WE print, on the outside of to-day's " Courier," a card of Mr. J. Gr. Kidder, 
 according to his request. We prefer to make no remarks upon the subject until the 
 investigation which is in progress is concluded. In connection with this subject, however, 
 we quote the following from the Dublin " Freeman's Journal :" — ■ 
 
 " Suspicious. — On Tuesday evening, 23rd of February, fifty-six young men left the 
 North Wall by the steamer ' St. Columba ' for Liverpool, en route for Boston, United 
 States. The emigrants were engaged by an agent here from America as workmen on a 
 line of railway now said to be in course of construction. By the conditions of the 
 agreement the emigrants cannot work save at the railway ; but it is stated that they will 
 be granted permission to join the Federal army. They will be inspected at Liverpool 
 prior to embarking in a ship chartered to take 700 Irishmen to America." 
 
 ''A Card. 
 
 " The morning, papers of Saturday contain an account of a meeting of Irish citizens, 
 in which I am charged with inhumanity in the treatment of some emigrants from Ireland, 
 whose passage I had become responsible for. 
 
 " This was an experiment to see if by possibility a plan of importing labourers could 
 be made self-sustaining. 
 
 " The depths of poverty from which this 100 men have been taken may be inferred 
 from the fact that before they were shipped they all signed an agreement to work for one 
 year for 10 dollars per month and their board and lodging, the cost of their passage to 
 be deducted from their first earnings. Owing to the want of notice of the arrival of the 
 men at Portland (they arriving here at 9 o'clock p.m.) it was impossible to find beds for 
 them, and they were placed in a new commodious building in Charlestown, furnished with 
 settees and warmed and lighted. An ample supply of such refreshments as could be 
 got at that late hour was furnished, there being no time to have meat cooked. On the 
 following morning a breakfast of eggs, bread, tea, and what cooked provisions (hams, 
 roast and boiled beef) the Parker House could supply, which was ample in quantity and 
 the quality which had been provided for the guests of the Parker House. 
 
 " By very great exertions I was able, through the kindness of Messrs. Stephenson, 
 engineer, and McDonald, contractor, aided by the directors of the Charlestown Water 
 Works, to make arrangements that the men should be taken on to work at once at the 
 going rate of wages. 
 
 "My object being philanthropic to aid these poor men, as well as to supply the great 
 need we have of labour here, I told the men that by their agreement they were bound. to 
 work for 10 dollars per month for a year, but that I had determined that I vvould give in 
 to them all of the difference between that pi ice and the rate which the water contractors 
 would give, which was 1 dollar 50 cents per day. 
 
 " That they should have all of their first earnings to furnish themselves with 
 clothing, and that after this their earnings must be applied to reimburse me for what I 
 paid for each of their passages, according to their agreement ; and that so soon as that 
 was made good, all that they earned would belong to themselves, thus really giving to 
 them what might be equal to 120 or 150 dollars in the year more than they expected. 
 
 " I proposed that 30 of them should go by the 2-30 train that day, but when the 
 time arrived what remained of them refused to go. In the evening, ample provision 
 
having been made of food and beds, they again promised to go out on the 7" 10 train. I 
 sent a man to take them to the depot, but they again refused. 
 
 " On the 2-30 train I finally succeeded in getting off 15, and Mr. McDonald writes 
 to me that he has 26, and can take up to 100. 
 
 "The only hardship, if it is a hardship, that these men have undergone is that of 
 having to sleep for one night in a comfortable room on settees or on the floor, and which, 
 from the circumstances of the case, was unavoidable. 
 
 " I understand that at the meeting of Irish citizens, some 60 dollars were subscribed 
 to aid the men. It was, I think, quite unnecessary to do this. If, instead of it, they 
 had insisted with the men that they should go to work, it would have been much better 
 for them. I do not hear that anything was said or done at the meeting relative to the 
 forfeiture of their agreement by those men who have run away, or that any steps were 
 taken to make up the loss to me of the cost of their passages, of which I am to be 
 defrauded. 
 
 " The conduct of the men on this occasion will no doubt preclude the probability of 
 any further attempts of the kind being made, although I am informed from the best 
 authority that 10,000 men could be engaged on the same terms as these. 
 
 " I would give notice that any of the men who are willing to go to work have only 
 to proceed to West Medford, from the Lowell Eailroad dcpdt, and inquire of the 
 conductors, who wiU direct them to the waterworks. 
 
 " The papers who have given circulation to the account of the meeting mentioned 
 above will confer a favour by publishing this statement. 
 
 (Signed) "J.-G-. Kiddee." 
 
 lio. 2. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — {Received March 29.) 
 
 My Lord, Washington, March 14, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to inclose a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Consul .at 
 Boston, informing me of practices whiph have been resorted to in order to entrap into 
 enlisting into the United States' army a large number of Irishmen brought to this 
 country by a man named Finney, who is stated to have been not long ago arrested in 
 Ireland on the charge of being engaged in recruiting there for the Federal service. 
 I inclose also a copy of the answer which I have made to the Consul's despatch. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYO.IfS. 
 
 Inclosure 1 in ISo. 2. 
 
 Consul Lousada to Lord Lyons. 
 My Lord, Boston, March 1 1^ 1 864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to lay before your Lordship the outline of a deposition, just 
 made before me by a respectable householder, Martyn Lynch, proprietor of the " Stackpole 
 Hotel," Boston, It is to the effect that one Finney, a man lately arrested in Ireland for 
 recruiting, but who got off under the plea that he was obtaining labourers for the public 
 works at Charleston, Massachusetts, brought over 120 Irishmen to Portland by last 
 steamer, and had conveyed them thence to Charlestown, .adjoining and part of; and 
 having located them in some hall, afterwards took in four gallons of whiskey, got several 
 of them to enlist, and secured the money. The haU in question is owned by one Kidder, 
 of State-street, who is either partner with Finney, or, probably, his employer. A 
 Mr. Warren, a grocer residing in Charleston, interfered and spoilt the plot a little by 
 telling these men how shamefully they had been imposed upon ; but subsequently more 
 whiskey was introduced, and Martyn Lynch supposes that by this time they are all 
 secured. 
 
 The boimties now approaching 700 dollars, the speculators must clear about 600 
 dollars a-man. An indignation meeting of Irish is to be held this evening at the 
 " Stackpole House," as many more victims are on the road, and some prompt action ia 
 desirable. This isihe substance of the testimony of Mr. Ljnch, and he has promised me 
 further details to-inorrow. 
 
 I report this Jbriefly to save to-day's post, in case your Lordship should desire "to 
 S^nd me any instructioiiat hareon. 
 
 I have, &c 
 (Signed) F. LOUSADA. 
 
Inclosure 2 in 'So. 2. 
 Lord Lyons to Consul Lousada. 
 
 Sir, • Washington, March 13, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE received this morning your despatch of the day before yesterday, giving 
 the outline of a deposition made before you respecting improper means which appear to 
 have been employed to induce a large number of Irishmen, who have recently landed in 
 this country, to enlist in the United States' army.- 
 
 In the absence of more detailed information, I can do little more than instruct you 
 to use every means to obtain such evidence of the practices of which these British subjects 
 appear to have been the victims as shall enable me to bring their cases before the United 
 States' Grovernment, with some hope of obtaining their discharge. 
 
 It would also be desirable that you should lose no time in obtaining a list of the 
 names of the individuals enlisted, and such information concerning each of them as may 
 be useful in tracing him. 
 
 If you have any hope of being able, by application to the local authorities, military 
 or civil, to obtain the release of these British subjects at once, or the punishment of the 
 men by whom they have been deceived, you -will of course take immediate steps for the 
 purpose. 
 
 You will in any case send me speedy and full information on the whole matter, with 
 a view to such representations as it may be proper for me to make to the Central 
 Oovernment here. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 2*ro. 3. 
 
 Ea7-l Russell to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Foreign Office, March 31, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE received your despatch of the 14th instant and its in closures, respecting the 
 proceedings of the man Pheeny or Finney to induce the Irishmen who accompanied him 
 to America to enlist in the United States' Army ; and I have to instruct you to bring 
 these proceedings to the notice of Mr. Seward, and to request that he will cause an 
 inquiry to be made respecting them. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) EUSSELL. 
 
 No. 4. 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — (Received April 3.) 
 
 JMy Lord, Washington, March 22, 1864. 
 
 WITH reference to my despatch of the 14th instant, 1 have the honour to 
 transmit to your Lordship copies of two further despatches from Mr. Consul Lousada 
 respecting the means employed at a place near Boston for the purpose of enlisting in the 
 United States' army a large number of immigrants, who appear to have been brought to 
 this country by a man named Finney on board the steamer "Nova Scotian." 
 
 Her Majesty's Consul at Portland informs me that he had sent to your Lordship a 
 copy of a despatch which he wrote to me on the 1 7th instant, and from which I learned 
 that still more unjustifiable practices had been used to induce seven Irishmen belonging 
 to the same party to enlist at Portland, I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship 
 herewith further papers relative to this affair. 
 
 Among the papers your Lordship will find a copy of note, in which I have stated to 
 Mr. Seward that if it be not thought proper to discharge these seven men at once, I 
 trust that a serious inquiry into the circumstances under which their enlistment took 
 place will be made, and that measures will be immediately taken to jjrevent their being 
 .forwarded to the army, or placed in actual service, pending the investigation. 
 
 I have in the same note directed to Mr. Seward's attention to the case of the Irish- 
 men enlisted at Boston, and have addressed to him an earnest request, not only that 
 prompt redress may be given for the wrongs suffered by the individuals whose cases I 
 have brought before him, but that measures may be taken effectually to protect in 
 future British subjects arriving in the United States from the practices of unscrupulous 
 reicruiting agehts. ' 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
Inclosure 1 in No. 4. 
 
 Consul Lousada to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Boston, March 12, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to inclose an extract frdm the Boston " Courier " of to-day, 
 containing an account of the meeting held yesterday evening in reference to those Irishmen 
 brought over by Finney (or Phinney), and subject of my despatch of the 11th instant. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) F. LOUSADA. 
 
 Inclosure 2 in ISo. 4. 
 
 Newspaper Extract. 
 
 [See Inclosure 1 in I^o. 1 ,] 
 
 Tnclosure 3 in No. 4, 
 
 Consul Lousada to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Boston, March 17, 1864. 
 
 IN reference to my despatch of the 12th instant, I inclose a copy of a " card " 
 published by Mr. Kidder, which, as the " Courier " justly observes, can be taken 
 quantum valeat. I am in train to get an authentic list of the men brought over, 
 and hope to forward it to-morrow. Meanwhile the "Indignation Committee" are hiardat 
 work, and some curious developments are promised for the next meeting, a report of 
 which is to be published and will be duly forwarded. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) F. LOUSADA. 
 
 Inclosure 4 in No. 4. 
 
 Newspaper Extract. 
 
 [See Inclosure 2 in No. 1.] 
 
 Inclosure 5 in No. 4. 
 
 Thomas Tulley and six others to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, _ ^ Philadelphia, March ' , 1864. 
 
 SINCE writing the inclosed, we have been sent to the seat of war, and we will be in 
 Washington to-morrow. Will your Lordship have us justified and released ? I believe 
 we are going to Alexandria. . Don't forget your Lordship's obedient servants. 
 
 (Signed) T. TULLEY. 
 
 Inclosure 6 in No. 4. 
 Thomas Tulley and six others to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Camp Berry, Portland, America, March 13, 1864. 
 
 I BEGr leave most respectfully to intimate to you that I sailed from Liverpool on 
 the 25th February, 1864, for the purpose of making good my position in life. I and my 
 companions, whose names are attached hereto, arrived in Portland on the 9th of March 
 instant. We landed with tickets in our possession to bring us to Boston, but scarcely 
 were we in America six hours, when we were arrested, put into prison, where we remained 
 until the morning following, when we made application to have ourselves released ; this 
 was denied us, unless we became American soldiers. This we individually declined, and 
 after being imprisoned for upwards of thirty hours, without a drink or a mouthful of 
 food, we were obliged to go the recruiting depot in Portland, and become soldiers, solely 
 on account of thirst and hunger, together with the hopes that were held out to us by the 
 Deputy-Governor of the prison and his recruiting myrmidons. We had not even an 
 opportunity of making our case known to the Englif^h Consul, but when the opportunity 
 offered Mr. Murray called on us, and signified his disapprobation. Notwithstanding,' 
 r fear we will be compelled to proceed into the American army towards the Potomac. 
 Now, my Lord, I most respectfully submit that it is contrary to the rules of civilization to 
 have subjects of Her Britannic Majesty sold as a lot of slaves, and therefore we appeal 
 to your Lordship for justice. We are enrolled in the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment, 
 
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 and tbe British Consul was here last evening, and told us he would do his utmost for us, 
 and that if he did not succeed he would Write to your Lordship. We are about repre- 
 senting the matter to the Secretary of State in England, but previous to our doing so, we 
 submit our case to your Lordship, fully hoping that you will not tolerate Britisti 
 subjects being kidnapped after six hours' residence in America. 
 
 Tour Lordship no doubt will know the proper source to apply to for our liberation. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS TULLEY. 
 
 EDWD. CASSIDY. 
 
 JAMES HIGGmS. 
 
 M. F. BYEI^E. 
 
 MAETm HOGAJSf. 
 
 THOMAS BURKE. 
 
 MICHAEL MORAjST. 
 
 Inclosure 7 in ISo. 4. 
 Lord Lyons to Consul Murray. 
 
 Sir, Washington, March 18, 1864. 
 
 I TRANSMIT to you copies of two letters which I have received this morning, 
 and from which it would appear that seven British subjects, Thomas TuUey, Edward 
 Cassidy, James Higgins, Michael F. Byrne, Martin Hogan, Thomas Burke, Michael 
 Moran, were arrested on landing at Portland, and have been forced into the United 
 States' military service. 
 
 It seems that these men were in communication with you when they were at 
 Portland, and I have to request you to make to me a full report on the case, in order 
 that I may be able to determine whether it will be proper for me to take measures to 
 obtain their discharge. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 8 in No. 4. 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 
 Sir, Washington, March 19, 1864. 
 
 I BEG you to take into immediate consideration the despatch from Her Majesty's 
 Consul at Portland,* and its inclosures, copies of which I do myself the honour to submit to 
 you herewith. 
 
 They recount the circumstances under which, according to the statements made to 
 the Consul, seven Irishmen, British subjects, who landed at Portland on the 9th of this 
 month, have been enlisted in the United States' army. At the request of the Consul, 
 Acting Assistant Provost -Marshal General for the State of Maine, Major Gardiner, 
 sent an order to detain these men at' Portland, until an investigation could be made ; 
 but before the arrival of the order the men had been sent off to join the 20th regiment 
 of Maine Yolunteers, now stationed with the army of the Potomac. I myself received 
 yesterday a letter from them written at Philadelphia on their way to Washington ; and I 
 conclude that they must now have reached this place. 
 
 If it be not thought proper to order the men to be discharged at once, I trust that a 
 serious inquiry into the circumstances under which their enlistment took place will be 
 made, and that measures will be immediately taken to prevent their being forwarded to 
 the army or placed in actual service pending the investigation, .^ 
 
 The names of the men are, — 1. Thomas TuUey ; 2. Michael Byrne; 3. James 
 Higgins; 4. Edward Cassidy; 5. Thomas Burke; 6~. Michael Moran; 7. Martin 
 Hogan. 
 
 I beg you to be so good as to let me know where these men now are. 
 
 It seems proper that I should also mention to you that it is reported to me by Her 
 Majesty's! Consul at Boston that a large number of Irishmen brought over by the same 
 packet and in charge of the same person, a man named Finney, have been practised on 
 in a not un^milar manner in the neighbourhood of that city, and enlisted in the United 
 States' army. It will probably be my duty to address you again on this subject, when I 
 receive imore complete information from the Consul. 
 
 * Inclosure I in No. 6. 
 
I cannot conclude without an earnest request that, not only prompt redress may be 
 given for such wrongs as may have been endured by the individuals whose cases I have 
 now brought to your notice, but that measures may he taken effectually to protect in 
 future British subjects arriving in the United States from the practices of unscrupulous 
 recruiting agents. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 9 in No. 4. 
 Lord Lyons to Consul Murray. 
 
 Sir, Washington, March 19, 1864. 
 
 WITH reference to my despatch of yesterday I have to inform you that I have 
 received this morning your despatch of the day before yesterday's date, relative to the 
 enlistment into the United States' army of Thomas TuUey and six other Irish 
 emigrants. 
 
 I have transmitted copies of your despatch and of its inclosures to the Secretary of 
 State of the United States, with a note requesting that if it be not thought proper to 
 discharge these men at once, a serious inquiry into the circumstances under which they 
 were enlisted may be made, and measures be taken immediately to prevent their being 
 forwarded to the army or placed in actual service pending the investigation. 
 
 I have also spoken to the Secretary of State about the case, and pressed him to take 
 steps concerning it without delay. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 No. 5. 
 Consul Murray to Earl Russell. — {Received April 4.) 
 
 My Lord, Portland, March 19, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith a copy of a despatch, together with its 
 inclosures, that I addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Washington on the 17th 
 instant on the subject of the complaint of seven Irishmen who arrived at Portland on the 
 9th instani on board the steam-ship "Nova Scotian," and who state that they were 
 entrapped into the military service of the United States. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) HENEY JOHN MUEEAY. 
 
 Inclosure 1 in No. 5. 
 
 Consul Murray to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Portland, March 17, 1864. 
 
 I HAYE the honour to transmit herewith copies of a correspondence I have had 
 with the Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General for this State, Major Gardiner, and 
 with the Mayor of Portland, upon the subject of the improper enlistment of seven 
 Irishmen, British subjects, who arrived at Portland on the 9th instant on board .of the 
 steam-ship "Nova Scotian," under a contract, entered into in Ireland, to proceed to 
 Boston to be employed there, but who were enticed into a liquor-store on their immediate 
 arrival, made drunk, and were put into confinement in consequence of a breach of the 
 peace, and while there, they state, they were forced and intimidated to enter the military 
 service of the United States. 
 
 In repl}- to my request. Major Gardiner gave orders for the men to be detained 
 until an investigation was made, but it appears that they were sent away from Camp 
 Berry, previous to the arrival of the order, to join the 20th Eegiment of Maine Volunteers, 
 now stationed with the Army of the Potomac. 
 
 From the Mayor I have as yet received no reply. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) HENRY JOHN MURRAY. 
 
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 Inclosure 2 in !No. 5. 
 
 Thomas Tulley and six others to Consul Murray. 
 
 Sir, Camp Berry, Portland, March 11, 1864. 
 
 WE, the Undersigned, beg leave most respectfully to bring to your notice the fact 
 that we were brought out from Ireland by a person of the name of Finney, for the 
 purpose of working in Boston. "We arrived in Portland on the 9th instant, but having 
 lost the train which was to convey us with the remainder of. the party we came with, we 
 were put into prison and could not gain our liberation or food unless we submitted to 
 enrol ourselves in the American service, which we ultimately did through mere compulsion 
 and privation. We are now in the camp, and about being forwarded to the interior, and 
 therefore as British subjects we claim that protection which is granted to the people of 
 that country throughout the globe. Will you therefore, Sir, as Consul of our country, 
 inquire into the matter at once, and gain for us our liberty, as it is a most crying shame 
 to see British subjects treated in the manner we have been. Should you not interfere in 
 the matter will you kindly say so, that we may represent the matter to the Secretary of 
 State in London, as most decidedly no country can stand by such conduct. The police 
 first confines us ; keeps us in prison and refuses to give us our liberty or food until we 
 enlist. Although we had our passage certificates to Boston in our possession we were 
 not even six hours in America before we were entrapped. 
 Hoping for you kind consideration, we are, &c. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS TULLEY. 
 
 MICHL. BYENE. 
 
 JAMES HIGGINS. 
 
 EDWD. CASSIDY. 
 
 THOS. BUEKE. 
 
 MICHAEL MOEAN. 
 
 MAETm HOGAE^. 
 
 Inclosure 3 in No. 5. 
 Consul Murray to Major Gardner. 
 
 Sir, Portland, March 14, 1864. 
 
 I BEG to forward you herewith a copy of a letter I have received, signed by seven 
 Irishraen, British subjects, who arrived in this city on Wednesday last by the steam-ship 
 " Nova Scotian," and who complained that they have been entrapped and intimidated 
 into the service of the United States. At a personal interview I had with these men 
 yesterday at Camp Berry (through the kindness of Lieutenant-Colonel Merrill) they 
 assured me in the most positive manner that their statements were perfectly true, and 
 declared many things to me that tend to prove a systematic attempt was successfully 
 made by the brokers, and connived at by the police, to get them into such a position that 
 would force them to enlist. 
 
 The wise provisions of the paragraph No. 926 regarding the duties of recruiting 
 officers appear to have been wantonly disregarded, and men who came out to this country 
 under a contract that was binding upon their parts, to serve in industrial operations at 
 Boston and elsewhere, have been forced to enter the military service of the United 
 States. 
 
 May I request, on the part of these men, that an official examination may be made 
 into their respective cases, and that they be detained at Camp Berry until the validity of 
 their enlistment be proved ? 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) HENEY JOHN MUEEAT 
 
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 Indosure 4 in No. 5. 
 Revised Regulations for the Army. 
 
 Duties of Recruiting Officers. 
 
 THEY will not allow any man to be deceived or inveigled into the service by false 
 representations, but will in person explain the nature of the service, the length of the 
 term, the pay, clothing, rations, and other allowances to which a soldier is entitled by law. 
 to every man before he signs the enlistment. 
 
 Inclosure 5 in No. 5. 
 Consul Murray to the Mayor of Portland. 
 
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 Sir, Portland, Murch 14, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE received a representation from seven Irishmen, British subjects, to the 
 effect that they arrived at Portland on Wednesday last on board of the steam-ship " Nova 
 Scotian." That they had signed a contract in Ireland with a person named Finney, 
 binding themselves to work at Boston for a certain monthly stipend and their board ; and 
 they arrived here with the intention of proceeding to Boston in the railway with their 
 companions, but that on their landing early in the morning, without having breakfasted, 
 they were immediately conducted to a neighbouring liquor store, and there treated to 
 liquor so that the greater part of them got drunk and knew not what they did, and shortly 
 afterwards found themselves locked up at the police office, in the new City Government 
 House. That they were kept without food or drink, although they repeatedly asked for 
 both. That while there enlisting brokers were admitted to them, and who told them that 
 they would be subjected to sixty days' imprisonment which they would avoid by enlisting. 
 They refused to enlist, and were then told that they would have no food until they did 
 enlist. Upon this they signed the enlistment papers, and were taken before the Provost- 
 Marshal, but on their then refusing to enter the service they were returned to confine- 
 ment. This happened two or three times, and fearing that they would be starved, they 
 at last agreed to enlist. The town bounty of 200 dollars was then placed in their hands, 
 and they were provided with a good dinner, but still kept locked up. They state that 
 shortly after the receipt of the bounty money, soldiers, or persons in the uniform of the 
 United States, were admitted to them, who palmed off upon them silver watches and 
 jewellery, almost forcing them to buy them. I went to the camp yesterday, and had a long 
 interview with these men, who declared most solemnly to the truth of their foregoing 
 statement. 
 
 I therefore deem it my duty to lay these circumstances before you, feeling assured 
 that it can never be the intention of the United States' Government that persons coming 
 over to this country, under a special contract, should be inveigled and intimidated into 
 their military service. 
 
 There can be but little doubt that these men were systematically treated to liquor 
 on their immediate arrival at Portland by the agents of the Recruiting Brokers, who well 
 knew that the results of their intemperance would lead the men to the police office, where 
 they could be acted upon with, the connivance of the police. 
 
 I see by the public papers that a "Foreign Immigration Society " has been formed 
 for this State of Maine. I need hardly remark that when the treatment of this batch of 
 contract emigrants, both at Portland and at Boston, becomes publicly known in Europe, 
 it must seriously affect the success of the association, for few respectable hardworking 
 people would like to come out to a country where within a few hours after their arrival 
 they find themselves forced to enter the military service of that country, instead of 
 following the peaceful avocations they had contracted for. 
 
 May I request, therefore, that you will be pleased to inquire into the truth of these 
 statements, and 1 would express a hope that care may be taken on the arrival of vessels 
 copveying British emigrants, to put a stop to designing and cruel proceedings which the 
 GoYernment of the United States would be the first to repudiate. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) HENRY JOHN MURRAY. 
 
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 Inclosure 6 in No. 5. 
 
 Major Gardiner to Consul Murray. 
 
 Office of Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General, 
 Sir, Augusta, Maine, March 15, 1864. 
 
 YOUE letter of the 14tli in relation to cettain men claiming to have heen improperly 
 enlisted is just arrived. 
 
 I write by mSail to-day to the officer commanding the Camp at Portland, requesting 
 him to detain these men until an investigation can be made. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 (Signed) J. W. T. GARDINER. 
 
 No. 6. 
 
 Consul Lousada to Earl Russell. — {Received April 4.) 
 
 My Lord, Boston, March 21, 1864. 
 
 IN continuation of the case of the Irishmen brought over to this country by Finney 
 (subject of my despatch of the 15th instant), I now have the honour to inclose a 
 leading article of to-day's " Courier," which logically confutes the sophistry of Mr. Kidder's 
 " Card," and will repay perusal, as really setting forth the true nature of the transaction. 
 The final action of the Committee is postponed until Friday, and I shall be able by the 
 subsequent mail to report the result. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) F. LOUSADA. 
 
 Inclosure in No. 6. 
 Extract from the " Courier." 
 
 The Irish Emigration Enlistment Scheme. A Substitute Broker's Specula- 
 tion Frustrated. — The Committee appointed, at the Stackpole House meeting, to 
 investigate facts connected with the arrival of 102 young men from Dublin, in charge of 
 Mr. Finney, their contract with him before leaving their home, and the treatment they 
 received, upon their arrival in this country and immediately subsequent thereto, have 
 been diligently and conscientiously pursuing the duties assigned them, and will be ready 
 to report at the adjourned meeting to be held on Friday evening in the hall of the Consti- 
 tutional Democratic Club. The Committee have held meetings almost daily ; they have 
 examined quite a number of the emigrants : Mr. Jerome G. Ividder was before the 
 Committee three hours at one of the sessions, and Mr. Finney, the agent, has also been 
 present. The meetings have been conducted without bias, and all persons who had 
 anything pertinent to the investigation to offer have been invited to speak, and have been 
 listened to patiently and attentively. Without presuming to anticipate the report of the 
 Committee, we desire to call attention to one or two prominent features in the transac- 
 tions that have been disclosed during this inquiry. 
 
 It is made very evident by the testimony that has been taken, that the shipment of 
 the 1 02 men whose particular case is under consideration, was part of a widely-extended, 
 ramified scheme, in which more than Mr. Kidder and Mr. Finney are involved, and the 
 outlines of which, at least, were known and approved in high official quarters before it 
 had been tried, experimentally — before, in fact, Finney had sailed from this country. 
 The objections to this scheme do not arise because its prime object was to procure 
 recruits for the armies, but because it appears a scheme of fraud and false pretence upon 
 the emigrant, and of violation to the foreign enlistment laws of another country, calcu- 
 lated to bring discredit upon all who connive at it, and add to difficulties which are already 
 aggravated between the Governments of Great Britain and the United States. This 
 going to confiding emigrants with a lie in the mouth, deluding them from home on the 
 promise of steady work and good pay, when the real intent is to make merchandize of 
 thewij is what all feiir-minded men object to and repudiate. The pernicious maxim, "The 
 end justifies the means," has not yet been consecrated as a permanent rule of action, 
 and therefore they who seem to have adopted it must look to have their acts character- 
 ized by their appropriate -names. 
 
 It appears by the concurrent statements of the men imported by Mr. Finney for 
 
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 Mr. Kidder, at an expenditure of l,100i., that they were contracted to wort on railroads 
 and waterworks, at 21. British per month (some say 10 dollars pei* month), and found, 
 with free passage to the United States, one suit of clothes per year, and pay to commence 
 immediately on arrival. It appears, on the other hand, by statements of Mr. Kidder, 
 that he was unauthorized to contract with labourers for railroad work by any railroad 
 Company ; that he had no railroad work for the men ; no waterworks work for them j and 
 that his arrangement with Mr. McDonald, Contractor of the Charlestown "Waterworks, 
 was an afterthought, made after the men arrived, and made in consequence of the frustra- 
 tion of the great object for which the men were brought here. It is in evidence before 
 the Committee that, on the passage to this country, when some of the men were talking 
 with Mr. Finney about the contract they had entered into and the work they were to do, 
 Jie replied to them that they might find themselves shouldering a musket on their arrival. 
 One of the men is deficient of an eye. Finney did not know of the deficiency until the 
 vessel was on its passage. When he discovered the fact he denounced the man as having 
 cheated him in not making his deformity known — as though the loss of an eye would 
 incapacitate a man for railroad work. 
 
 The first experience of the men on their arrival in Portland is significant of the real 
 object for which they were imported. If Finney, as the agent of Kidder, really brought 
 them over under contract to Kidder to work on railroads at a stipulated rate, each, man 
 of them having cost Kidder 70 dollars (his own statement), it is only reasonable to 
 suppose that Finney would have used ordinary diligence, to say the least, to keep the 
 men together under his supervision until he could deliver them over to his principal, and 
 use more than ordinary diligence in preventing persons from enticing away the men upon 
 whom his employer had already expended so much money. Instead of that, however, we 
 find him inviting recruiting agents to circulate among his charge, to be free with their 
 liquor, to use their influence to divert them from the professed object he engaged them 
 for. We find him on terms of excellent understanding with the policemen of that city, 
 and that, after a number of his company had been taken to the station-house — after 
 enjoying whiskey hospitality which had been so freely tendered to all — he leaves word 
 that the men may be released at once if they will enlist ; if they will not, that they cannot 
 be released until he says so. Eight or ten did enlist under these circumstances, yet we 
 hear of no word of apology from Mr. Finney to Mr. Kidder for this carelessness of men 
 committed to his charge, who had already cost Kidder 70 dollars each, or of complaint 
 from Kidder to Finney for breach of contract and orders, and for general neglect, by 
 which Kidder not only ran the risk of losing his expenses, but — what must be of far 
 greater consequence, if his explanation that he wanted labourers is correct — the loss of 
 his men. J^e would like to see the settlement of the accounts concerning the men who 
 , enlisted at Portland, that we might know how much Mr. Kidder loses or gains by that 
 transaction. 
 
 But Mr. Kidder, in a card published in the "Daily Advertiser," copied into the 
 " Courier," affirms that he caused the men to be brought over here as an " an experiment 
 to see if by possibility a plan of importing labourers could be made self-sustaining." He 
 adds, " The depth of poverty from which this hundred men have been taken may be 
 inferred from the fact that before they were shipped they all signed an agreement to 
 work for one year for 10 dollars a-month and their board and lodging — the cost of their 
 passage to be deducted from their first earnings." There was a contract, then ? Yet 
 Mr. Kidder admitted to the Committee that even before the men had arrived he was in 
 consultation with the recruiting agent of the 28th Eegiment in reference to them. It is 
 also admitted, and not denied by any one, that, in his first interview with the men, on 
 the very night of their arrival in Charlestown, Mr. Kidder addressed them, said they had 
 come upon him unawares, work was not ready for all of them, but if any would like to 
 enlist they could do so at once, and suggested the 28th Eegiment as a desirable regiment 
 to enter. This does not look like an over anxiety to see if the "plan of importing 
 labourers could be made self-sustaining," but "wiceywarcey — quite the rewarse," as 
 Captain Cuttle would say. 
 
 The insinuation of Mr. Kidder about the depth of poverty from which the mem have 
 been rescued by his philanthropic labours is ungracious and unkind, and, what is more, it 
 is untrue. He may not be aware of the fact, but it is in evidence before the Committee 
 that the men, as a body, were industrious mechanics and labourers of the city of Dublin, 
 more than ordinarily intelligent, all of them able-bodied, with the exception of the one- 
 eyed jnan, whom Finney swore at for cheating him, and all of them were in employment 
 in their respective callings, earning from 15*. to 11. 10s. a-week wages. But ttie most 
 noticeable part of Mr. Kidder'a card is the complaint that " the conduct of the men on 
 tiiis occasion will no doubt preclude the probability of any further attMnpifes of time kind 
 
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 being made," and the admission that ''I am informed, on the best authority, that 
 10,000 men couUl be engaged on the same terms as these." The complaint and the 
 admission are both important as showing, on the one hand, what progress had been made 
 in this emigration scheme in Ireland ; and, on the other, how completely it has been 
 frustrated by " the conduct of the men," and the disclosures that have been made " on 
 this occasion." 
 
 "We wait the Report of the Committee, the substance of which, and the conclusions 
 which the meeting may arrive at, we shall publish. It was designed that the Report 
 should be made this evening, but an unavoidable postponement has been made to Friday 
 evening. 
 
 No. 7. 
 
 Earl Russell to Lord Lyons. 
 lly Lord, Foreign Office, April 5, 1864, 
 
 I Have received from Consul Murray a copy of his despatch to you of the 17th 
 ultimo, respecting seven Irishmen forming a portion of the emigrants taken to America 
 by Finney, who, on their arrival at Portland, were improperly induced to enter the United 
 States' military service ; and I have to instruct you to apply to Mr. Seward for the 
 .release of these men. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) RUSSELL. 
 
 K"o. 8. 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — (Received April 24.) 
 
 My Lord, Washington, April 8, 1864. 
 
 "WITH reference to my despatches to your Lordship of the 14th and 22nd ultimo, 
 I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship copies of further papers relative to the 
 ■enlistment at Portland and Boston of Irish immigrants who arrived at the former place on 
 'board the packet " IN'ova Scotian " on the 9th ultimo. 
 
 It appears that an investigation of the circumstances under which the enlistment took 
 place at Portland is going on that place, and that Her Majesty's Consul has been invited 
 to be present, and attends daily. I regret, however, to say that I find that my request 
 that these men might not be sent forward to the army pending the investigation has not 
 been attended to. One of them, Thomas TuUey, has called at this Legation, and has 
 written the statement which forms the 12th inclosure in this despatch. It seems that he 
 and his companions were forwarded to the army of the Potomac, that the others are now 
 serving in the 20th Maine Regiment in that army, and that he himself would also be in 
 actual service in that regiment had he not been sent back to the hospital here on account 
 of illness. 
 
 I observe in the report of a speech of a Mr. Edward Ryan, which appears in the 
 newspaper extract (Inclosure 7 in this despatch), a statement that Mr. Murray, Her 
 Majesty's Consul at Portland, had refused to interfere in the case of a man named Martin 
 Hogan. The name of Martin Hogan appears, however, among the names of the men in 
 whose behalf Mr. Murray appealed to the local authorities, and in whose behalf I, acting 
 on a report from Mr, Murray, appealed to the United States' Government. The insinua- 
 tion made by the same speaker that Mr. Murray " makes money himself in the recruiting 
 business " is of course simply absurd. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 1 in No, 8. 
 Consul Lousada to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Boston, March 2\ , ISQL 
 
 IN" continuation of the case of Irishmen brought over to this country by Finney 
 
 (subject of my despatch of the 18th instant) I now have the honour to inclose a leading 
 
 article of to-day's "Courier," which logically confutes the sophistry of Mr. Kidder's 
 
 "card," and will repay perusal, as really setting forth the true nature of the transaction. 
 
 The final action of the Committee is postponed until Friday, and I shall be able by the 
 
 subsequent malil to report the result. 
 
 I have not as yet succeeded in getting a list of the men, but expect to do so. Copies 
 
 of this article as well as of the previous ones were sent by me to the Foreign Office. 
 
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 After writing thus far, I received a letter of which I inclose a copy. This letter 
 contained an inclosure (original transmitted herewith, with request that it may be 
 returned at once after perusal in order that I may restore it to owner). 
 
 My reason for forwarding this document is, that it forcibly strikes me as being a 
 ramification of what I consider the same plot against our labouring men ; for to entice 
 them over under pretence of remunerative work, and then to put them in the position of 
 either being in want or of enlisting, is to all intents and purposes a nefarious conspiracy. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) F. LOUSADA. 
 
 Inclosure 2 in "No. 8. 
 
 Extract from the " Courier." 
 
 [See Inclosure in 'So. 6.] • 
 
 Inclosure 3 in ISo. 6, 
 Mr. Ainsworth to Consul Lousada. 
 
 1 4, Pinfice Block, City of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 
 Sir, March 19, 1864. 
 
 HAVING- come to this country on July 22, 1863, on the steamer " Georgia," I 
 beg to ask you for a passage back to my own country. My object in coming to this 
 country was to open a field of labour for my suff"ering countrymen in Blackburn. I am 
 sorry to give you to understand that T have not beeji able to carry my plan into efi"ect for 
 want of health. I inclose a letter in this that will show you my intended route to this 
 country and Canada, but I hope you will have the kindness to send the inclosed letter 
 back with a reply ; the gentlemen of this country having sent for my family, thinking I 
 would have better health, but I am sorry to inform you that the climate is against me, 
 and I beg of you to grant a passage for my family as well, as all my means and money is 
 done. 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 (Signed) H. W. AINSWORTH. 
 
 Inclosure 4 in No, 6. 
 
 Mr. Stuart to Mr. Buchanan. 
 
 Canadian Government Information Office, 19, Drury Buildings, 
 Water Street, Liverpool, July 7. 1863, at the 
 Dear Sir, landing-stage, Tuesday morning. 
 
 THIS will introduce to you Mr. H. W. Ainsworth from Blackburn. Mr. Ainsworth 
 proceeds to our country as a delegate from an important Emigration Committee, the only 
 one of the populous manufacturing town of Blackburn. Mr. Ainsworth will present you 
 with a letter from his Committee ; he has awoke my special interest as a man earnestly 
 interested in behalf of his suffering countrymen. I will leave him fully to open up to you 
 the special object of his visit to Canada, and as he proceeds or intend to proceed from 
 New York to Quebec, very much, if not for the express purpose of seeing Mr. Buchanan, 
 whose name is regarded in this country as that of one who must be a friend to the 
 people, I trust you will be able to put Mr. Ainsworth in the right road of introducing 
 the suiy'ect personally to the kind consideration of our Government and people. 
 
 jV/Jr. King, Editor of the " Blackburn Times,'' arranged with the Messrs. J. Bains 
 and Co., to have-this, the second party from Blackburn to Canada this season, to go by 
 the " Albion " screw-steamer to New York (passages il. 10s.) ; the first party left here 
 by same route last Tuesday (some thirty in number), and this parity of over thirty go 
 ot-day A good journey to them, and a welcome to Canada. 
 
 (Signed) W. F. STEWAET. 
 
 Inclosure 6 in No. 6. 
 Consul Lousada to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Boston, March 23, 1864. 
 
 IN continuation of my despatch of the 21st instant on the subject of those imported 
 Irishmen I have the honour to report that Finney came to my office to-day, and a more 
 villainous specimen of humanity, as far as outward signs go, I have rarely seen ; just the 
 
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 tool fitted for the work. He had the audacity to affect to consult me as to whether he 
 could not arrest these men for breach of their contract with him, and said he was going 
 on to Washington to see the Secretary of War, to claim from him the men already 
 enlisted to his (Finney's) detriment. 
 
 He professes ignorance as to the whereabouts of the bulk of the importation (the 
 list of which as procured from Portland herewith inclosed) ; but he admits that several 
 have enlisted, and that he got one off in the 4th Massachusetts Cavalry, which sailed to 
 day for Hilton Head. 
 
 After leaving, he came back again, and with a look of inexpressibly low cunning 
 asked me, in case he succeeded in reclaiming his men from the Secretary of War, what 
 action I propose to take in the -matter. I simply told him it would be time enough to 
 consider that when the case arose. 
 
 i have, &c. 
 (Signed) F. LOUSADA. 
 
 Inclosure 6 in jN'o. 8. 
 
 Consul Lousada to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Boston, March 26, 1864. 
 
 I HAYE the honour to inclose copies of the Eeport of the Committee of Investiga- 
 tion in the Irish emigration case. The meeting stands adjourned, but I doubt if any 
 further action will be taken. 
 
 (Signed) ' F." LOUSADA. 
 
 Inclosure 7 in ^o. 8. 
 
 Report of the Committee of Investigation in the Irish Emigration Case. 
 
 The Kidder Emigeants. Eeport of the Committee of Invesstigation. — 
 AN adjourned meeting of citizens, called to consider the treatment of certain Irish 
 emigrants ^vho lately arrived in Boston in the steamer "lifova Scotian," at Portland, was 
 held in the Hall of the Democratic Club last evening. The Committee appointed to 
 investigate the case came in with their Keport, in which they say that they have examined 
 publicly a great number of witnesses, and have also had communications with various 
 persons in relation to the matter. The Committee direct their attention in the first place 
 to the alleged iU-treatment and neglect suffered by the emigrants from those who had 
 them in charge, and they have gathered the following facts : — that the emigrants are aU 
 healthy, able-bodied young men, and nearly all able to read and write ; that during the 
 time they were in Portland, and up to 9 o'clock of the evening of the 9th, it does not 
 appear they received any attentions from the persons whose duty it was to provide for 
 them, neither shelter nor food having been given to them; that Mr. Kidder caused them 
 to be brought to a vacant store in Bunker Hill Street, Oharlestown, on the night of their 
 arrival from Portland^ and there, after having provided them with crackers,, cheese, tea, 
 ale, and whiskey, left them to pass a winter^s night on the bare floor, without even a 
 blanket to cover them, and at an hour when, for half a dollar a-piece at the utmost, 
 comfortable lodgingSi could bo provided for each of them ; that there were no proper 
 efforts made by persons claiming control of the men to provide for them decently, to give 
 them immediate employment^ to keep them from indulging in inCoxicating liquor, or to 
 prevent them from falling into the hands of the " substitute brokers " and "runners " for 
 recruiting offices, who gathered about the emigrants, and entrapped a number of them 
 into enlisting ; that had it not been for the kindness of the good people of Charlestown, 
 who provided them with every assistance that could be afforded, the emigrants would 
 have suffered still worse than tjkey did ; and finally, that both Finney and Kidder, together 
 with all concerned, must acknowledge that the emigranta were not treated by them as 
 even the common usages of civilization demand that human beings should be treated. 
 
 In reference to the allegations that the object in bringing the emigrants to this 
 country was to induce them to enter the military service of the United States as a part 
 of the quota of Massachusetts, the Committee say, "For the purpose of leaving the 
 public to judge of the truth of the matter alleged, we have embodied in our Report the 
 statemeUit of a number of witnesses, and thus leave every person to draw his own 
 inference. The Committee add for themselves that, if the em^ranta made, any arrange- 
 ment to enlist in the army when they arrived here, or had it been understood that they 
 
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 were to enlist^ tben those who induced them to come to this country cannot be charged 
 with having practised any trick or deception upon them. But the men deny that it was 
 intended they should enlist, and the principal parties engaged in bringing them to this 
 country deny it also, and furthermore say that the whole aim in inducing the men to 
 emigrate was a philanthropic prcgect, something intended to better the condition of the 
 men and to benefit the State. 
 
 Among the persons examined was one of the emigrants, Michael Kirby. He states 
 that, while on the passage Finney said to him, in conversation, " Tell them (the other 
 emigrants) that they had better be prepared to take the musket when they land." Before 
 this the men had begun to have suspicions that they were intended for the United States' 
 service, by what the firemen and stewards said. This witness testified at length respecting 
 their experience after the arrival in Portland and down to the time when the men were 
 lodged in Kidder's old building in Charlestown. It was then that Kidder himself came 
 among them and made a speech on the occasion, saying among other things, " If you have 
 a mind to enlist I would advise you to enlist in the 28th Kegiment," but saying nothing 
 about work he had for them to do. Simeon Gravin, another of the emigrants, testified 
 that Kidder's first conversation with them was to enlist with him (Kidder) as he was 
 entitled to enlist the men, having brought them out. Finney up to this time had never 
 cautioned any of the men against enlisting. Gavin came over to Boston the next day, 
 and he with companions, by some means found themselves in the Harbour Police Station, 
 and he gives a curious history of the various and persistent efibrts that were made to 
 induce t£em to enlist. 
 
 Mr. Finney, himself, was then examined by the Committee at great length. Hfi says, 
 he has lived ttiirteen years in this country, and has passed most of the time between 
 Haverhill, Manchester and l^orthfidd. He has never been engaged either directly or 
 indirectly in enlisting men for the army. He explains his introduction to Kidder in this 
 wise : He met an Irishman from Portland, whose name he has forgotten, who had just 
 come from Kidder's office, and was told by him that a number of Irishmen were to be 
 imported to this country. Finney thought he would try for a chance. He don't know 
 how he came to speak to the Portland man. He and another (both were Irishmen) were 
 talking, when Finney came up, about bringing over emigrants and paying their passage, 
 and about parties in town who were to do it. " I can't say whether the stranger men- 
 tioned Kidder's name first, or myself." In relation to his interview with Kidder, Finney 
 distinctly states that his object in calling upon that gentleman was to get him to contribute 
 something to bring emigrants over. He proposed to get them from Galway. He told 
 Kidder he was about to start a project himself to get men over. Referred Mr. K. to John 
 B. Chase, and Dr. Tibbetts, Manchester, N. H., and "William Jeffers, Haverhill. "Was 
 simply asking for the means to get the men out, and considered the project his own 
 individual undertaking. On the next day, Mr. Kidder said he knew a firm who would 
 take hold and help in the undertaking, and then gave him a copy of an agreement for 
 each man to sign to work for me (Finney) for one year, at 10 dollars a month and board 
 adid lodging: — the work to be done on the Charlestown Water Works, Pennsylvania Coal 
 Mine, Hartford and Erie EaUroad, &c. Mr. Kidder's name was not mentioned in the 
 agreement. My compensation was to be 50 dollars a month. In a conversation Finney 
 had with Governor Andrew, he told the Governor what Kidder and the others were 
 doing. The Governor replied, he would have nothing to do with it. He had no money 
 to invest. 
 
 In reference to his arrest in Ireland, Finney said his papers were all right, and the 
 authorities could make nothing of them. The papers were .simply four or five letters from 
 contractors who said they wanted them. One of tie men, Pat McDermott, him with a 
 lame eye, stated to the Committee, in the presence of Finney, that Finney one day accosted 
 him on ship-board, in the roughest manner, swearing, — " I have been rightly sucked in 
 by you." The way that he had been sucked in was, that McDermott kept the peak of his 
 cap over his blind eye so that Finmey should not see it. Finney denied to the Committee 
 that such a scene took place, or such language was used. 
 
 The statement of Kidder was given by the Committee above almost verbatim. He 
 was examined nearly three hours. He stated that Finney had been recommended to him 
 as a respectable Irishmaai. His sole object in engaging in the undertaking was to do a 
 good deal of good at a small outlay. His instructions to Finney were to hire men for 
 labour and nothing else, and say nothing about war, else he might get into difficulty with 
 the Government. Finney was to be paid according to the success of the scheme — liberally 
 if it was very successfttl. It bad proved a total ifeakire, a»d be would be paid nothing. 
 He had asked some gentlemen who participated in the Board of Trade Emigration 
 meeting a few months ago to associate with him, but they had refused. Finney had 
 
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 orders only for 100 men. Another gentleman, Mr. Ames, was concerned with him in the 
 enterprise, and he has to bear half the loss. Grovernor Andrew knew of the matter, but 
 could not act officially in regard to it. Orders were sent not to ship any of the men 
 after the 23rd of February. When the men arrived, he told them if they wanted to enlist 
 they could do so, but he wanted the 70 dollars each man had cost out of their bounty. 
 In anticipation of their arrival had tried to get work for them, but arranged nothing 
 definite. 
 
 The Report concludes by calling public attention to the part the Portland and Boston 
 police had acted in endeavouring to get these men to enlist. 
 
 Martin Lynch called attention to some points that had been omitted by the 
 Committee. Kidder acknowledged he had applied to a recruiting office in regard to these 
 men before they arrived. Another point : The treatment some of the men have received 
 from the Boston police. He charged it distinctly that a member of the harbour police 
 arrested two men for drunkenness ; that he, with others, tried every art and inducement 
 to have them enlist ; that on their release the next morning this same policeman said, 
 " You look cold, my boys," and took them to a bar room, treated them three or four 
 times, and paid for the drinks. The policeman denied the fact, denied that he had left the 
 Station-house when the men left ; but Mr. Lynch traced him with the men to. a bar-room, 
 where the men drank. And he wanted the meeting to understand and know that there 
 is svich a thing in Boston as a policeman taking a man up for drunkenness at night, and 
 taking him out the next morning and giving him drink three or four times. 
 
 Mr. Lynch had not the slightest doubt that Mr. Kidder brought the men over for 
 the purpose of enlisting them. Why, else, did he make no arrangements to receive 
 them ? Why, else, did he apply to a recruiting officer concerning them before they 
 arrived ? Mr. Lynch- also said that he had been informed by a lawyer of Boston that 
 Kidder had stated before the men arrived that he was engaged in a recruiting scheme 
 which, if successful, would soon fill up the quota of Boston. Mr. Lynch did not hesitate 
 to say that the whole thing was a rascally operation, turn it which way you will. 
 
 Eneas Smyth, Esq., noticed the contradictions between the statements of Mr. Kidder 
 and Mr. Finney, and examined the statements of both at some length. He made no 
 question that, instead of this being a philanthropic scheme, as claimed Mr. Kidder, it 
 was a scheme to make money, either in the difference of wages between 10 dollars a month 
 and board, the sum they were to receive from Kiddei', and the wages their labour would 
 actually bring, or by enlisting them. 
 
 ^'r. Edward Ryan would have the Report amended by censuring severely those men 
 in Boston and Portland who were so actively officious in urging the emigrants to enlist. 
 As to Messrs. Kidder and Ij'inney, whatever their intentions were, they had worked their 
 cards too shrewdly to authorize us to say, definitely, they had been engaged in a scheme 
 of enlistment. At any rate it was perfectly plain that Irishmen here had been foremost in 
 endeavouring to get recruiting bounties for them. He stated that he had just returned 
 from Portland and was convinced from what he had heard, that the men who were 
 enlisted in Portland were drugged and forced into the army by the authorities of that 
 city. The case of Martin Hogan, one of these emigrants, was one of peculiar outrage 
 and hardship. He was a stucco-worker by trade and had engaged to work for a plasterer 
 at 3 dollars a day. One day, while at his employment, a man came and told him some 
 of his chums were on the Railroad Wharf and wanted to see him. He went, saw none of 
 his chums, but found a man who claimed to know him, who invited him into a bar-room, 
 where he drank one glass, and the next thing he knew was he found himself, next morning, 
 in Camp Berry. He has refused to receive the bounty, refused to put on the military 
 clothing, and even refused to eat the camp rations, having pledged his watch to supply 
 himself with food, yet that man cannot be released from the camp. • The British Consul 
 at Portland has refused to interfere, for the reason, Mr. Ryan thought, that he makes 
 money himself in the substitute business. Hogan has a wife in Dublin. He fears that 
 he will be sent away in a day or two in a transport. The attention of Lord Lyons has 
 been called to this case. Mr. Ryan concluded by hoping there would be embodied in the 
 Report of the Committee a severe censure upon the authorities of Portland for their 
 connivance in kidnapping these men. 
 
 Other remarks were made, when the suggestion of Mr. Ryan was adopted, and the 
 meeting adjourned. 
 
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 Inclosure 8 in Ko. 8. 
 
 Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Department of State, Washington, March 28, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 19th 
 instant, respecting the cases of Thomas TuUey, Michael Byrne, James Higgins, Edward 
 Cassidy, Thomas Burke, Michael Moran, and Martin Hogan, alleged to be British subjects, 
 and to have been improperly enlisted into the United States' army. 
 
 I have the honour to inform your Lordship that I have invited the early attention of 
 the Secretary of War to these cases, and have requested him to cause an investigation 
 thereof, and the adoption of such proceeding as the result may seem to require. 
 
 If the report of a similar transaction at Philadephia,* mentioned by your Lordship, 
 should prove to be well-founded, I shall cheerfully adopt the same course in regard to it, 
 when I shall have received the names of the men and such details as you may be able to 
 communicate to me. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWAED. 
 
 Inclosure 9 in ITo. 8. 
 Consul Murray to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Portland, March 28, 1864. 
 
 K^ acknowledging the receipt of your Lordship's despatch dated respectively the 
 18th and 19th instant, I have the honour to report that the Provost-Marshal at Portland, 
 Captain Doughty, received on the 17th instant an order from the Acting Assistant 
 ProYOst^Marshal-General, Major Gardiner, to make an investigation of the circumstances 
 under which the seven Irishmen who were landed from the steam-ship " ISoya, Scotian " 
 on the 9th instant were enlisted into the United States' military service. 
 
 The examination ofi»the witnesses, under this order, commenced on the 25th instant, 
 and is continued daily at the office of the Provost-Marshal. 
 
 Having received an invitation from Captain Doughty to be present at these examina- 
 tions, I have availed myself of the permission, and have been in daily attendance. I will 
 report again to your Lordsoip on their conclusion. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) HEl^RY JOHl^ MURRAY. 
 
 Inclosure 10 in 'No. 8. 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 
 Sir, Washington, April 7, 1864. 
 
 IN a note which I had the honour to address to you on the 19th of last month, I 
 called your attention to the circumstances under which seven British subjects had (as I 
 was informed) been entrapped into the United States' army immediately after they 
 landed at Portland, and at the same time I expressed my hope that if the men were not 
 discharged at once measures would be immediately taken to prevent their being 
 forwarded to the army or placed in actual service pending an investigation of the matter. 
 Tou were so good as to inform me in reply, in a note dated the 28th of last month, that 
 you had invited the early attention of the Secretary of War to the case of these men. 
 I am very anxious to learn as soon as possible what has been done with the men, and I 
 am also desirous of being made acquainted with ' a,ny proceedings which may have been 
 adopted with a view to investigate the circumstances connected with their enlistment. 
 
 In the note to which I have referred I also informed you that it had been reported 
 to me that a large number of Irishmen, brought over by the same packet, and in charge 
 of the same person, a man named Finney,- had been practised on in a not unsimilar 
 manner in the neighbourhood of Boston. j 
 
 I have herewith the honour to inclose a list of the names of the passengers by the 
 packet in question, the "iPSTova Scotian." I have not yet received special information 
 
 * Qy. Boston. 
 
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 respecting any of these men individTJEally excepting ttie seven enlisted at Portland. But 
 it is reported to me by Her Majesty's Consul at Boston that several of them have been 
 enlisted. The treatment to which a great number of them were subjected in the neigh- 
 bourhood of Boston has become matter of public notoriety ; and I cannot doubt that the 
 proper authorities will consider that there is, to .say the least, sufficient primd facie 
 evidence that these men have been unfairly dealt with, to render it proper that steps 
 should be taken to trace those of them who have enlisted, and at the same time to inves- 
 tigate thoroughly the circumstances under which their enlistment took place. 
 
 I must, moreover, express my hope that the United States' Government will take 
 into consideration the suggestion which I ventured to make in my note, that measures 
 should be^dopted to protect foreigners arriving in the United States from the practice 
 of unscrupulous recruiting agents. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYOIfS. 
 
 Inclosure 11 in No. 8. 
 Lord Lyons to Consul Lousada. 
 
 Sir, Washington, April 7, 1864. 
 
 WITH reference to your despatches of the 11th, I2th, 17th, 21st, 23rd, and 26th 
 ultimo, and to my despatch of the 13th ultimo, I have to state to you that I have repre- 
 sented to the Secretary of State of the ' United States that there is sufficient primd facie 
 evidence that a considerable number of the Irish passengers by the " iSTova Scotia " were 
 unfairly dealt with, to render it proper that measures should be taken by the proper 
 autharities to trace those who have enlisted in the United States' army, and to investigate 
 thoroughly the circumstances under which their enlistm.ent took place. 
 
 Tou wlQ bear in mind my instruction of the 13th ultimo^ and not relax your own 
 endeavours to trace these men, and to obtain in the several cases such evidence of tbe 
 practices by which they were made to enlist as may serve to support applications from 
 me to the United States' Government for their discharge. *» 
 
 I have suggested to the Secretary of State of the United States that eflFeetual 
 measures should be taken to protect British subjects arriving in the United States from 
 the practices of unscrupulous recruiting agents. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) LTOI^S. 
 
 Inclosure 12 in No. 8. 
 Petition of Thomas Tulley. 
 
 No. 5 Ward, Mnley Hospital, Washington, Delaware County, 
 May it please your Lordship, April 4, 1864. 
 
 THE humble petition of Thomas Tulley, one of Her Britannic Majesty's subjects, but 
 now enrolled in D Company 20th Maine Eegiment, United States' army, humbly solicits 
 your Lordship's kind consideration and perusal of the following petition. Your 
 Lordship's Petitioner came from Liverpool in the steam-ship "Nova Scotian," and 
 landed in Portland on the 9th of last month, for the purpose of fulfilling a lucrative 
 employment in the establishment of Messrs. Page, Richardson and Co., of Boston, but 
 the day he landed he missed the cars, and, after being about six hours in America 
 Petitioner was confined in the city prison. 
 
 That Petitioner was visited in his cell the next morning by a recruiting Agent and 
 asked to enlist, and thereby gain his liberty ; this Petitioner refused, and remonstrated 
 with the Agent as to such conduct in a civilized country. 
 
 That Petitioner was suffering with thirst and -hunger, and he applied to the prison 
 oflBcials for sustenance, which was refused. Petitioner then demanded to be brought 
 before a Magistrate, but he was informed that he would be brought before no such 
 person. Petitioner tben asked when he would get his liberty, but his question was met 
 with a dubious answer, but that if Petitioner enlisted he would be released and get nlentv 
 of food and drink. & r j 
 
 That Petitioner, under the circumstances, asked for his liberty in order that he might 
 consider the matter fully, hoping to get to tte British Consul. The Deputy Governor 
 
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 unlocked the cell-door, but Petitioner was met at the main entrance to the prison and 
 presented with enlisting papers, which he refused to sign, when your Petitioner was a^ain 
 locked up. Subsequently Petitioner was again assailed by Army Agents, and one of 
 them took your Petitioner to a recruiting office, watched by the police, who had orders to 
 bring your Petitioner back to prison unless he signed the enlisting papers, which 
 Petitioner, under such circumstances, was compelled to sign, after which Petitioner 
 received food and drink, but not his liberty. Petitioner was then locked in a room, 
 where he received clothing, and was brought by an escort to the Treasury Office, where 
 they gave Petitioner 200 dollars State bounty, the principal portion of whicb sum was 
 extorted from Petitioner for paltry articles of clothing, &c. 
 
 That Petitioner on the evening of his enlistment and the day after his arrival in 
 America was sent to Camp Berry, outside Portland, where he was again almost a prisoner, 
 and Petitioner seeing his position managed through a friend to send a letter to Mr. Murray 
 the British Consul, who came and investigated the matter before the Colonel in command 
 at that place, and he signified his strong disapprobation of the manner I and five more 
 of nay countrymen were treated, as Petitioner begs to remind your Lordship that there 
 are five more men who were treated in the same manner as Petitioner, and are now 
 serving in the same company and regiment as your Petitioner, Mr. Murray informed 
 Petitioner that he would apply to the Provost-G-eneral for Petitioner's and his companions' 
 release, and that if he did not succeed he would lay the case before your Lordship ; but 
 whether he has done so or not, your Petitioner is ignorant of. Mr. Murray also advised 
 your Petitioner to take no more money, and when the Government bounty 173 dollars was 
 offered, your Petitioner refused taking it, although the other five men took it, so that 
 your Lordship's Petitioner has taken no money except the State bounty as aforesaid, which 
 he was almost forced to take. 
 
 That on Petitioner's march through the country he posted a letter for your Lordship 
 in Philadelphia, but Petitioner fears it did not reach your Lordship. 
 
 That on Petitioner's arrival at his regiment which forms part of the army of the 
 Potomac, he was sent back to this hospital on account of some slight sickness, and under 
 such a fortunate event Petitioner is able to lay his case before your Lordship before he 
 is again sent back, andriPetitioner fully hopes that your Lordship will get your Petitioner 
 his liberty, on account of the unlawful manner he has been treated in America. 
 
 That your Petitioner was about representing the matter to the Secretary of State in 
 London, and also to the two members who represent his native city in Parliament, but 
 having thought of your Lordship as Eepresentative of England in America, Petitioner 
 once more craves your Lordship's interference with the War Department, and thereby 
 obtain your Petitioner's release. 
 
 That your Petitioner has served his own country for many years during the Indian 
 mutiny, and is at present receiving sevenpence per day pension, having been discharged 
 on account of bad sight, but a good chance having offered I came to America to better 
 my position, and scarcely was Petitioner landed in free America than he was treated as 
 aforesaid, but which I am certain your Lordship will not tolerate. 
 
 That your Petitioner is prepared to make an affidavit before any person as to the 
 foregoing statement. 
 
 Tour Petitioner therefore humbly prays that your Lordship will do whatever is 
 necessary for your Petitioner. 
 
 And in duty bound your Lordship's Petitioner will ever pray. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS TULLBT, 
 
 D Company 20th Maine Regiment. 
 
 P.S.— Your Lordship's Petitioner is likely to be shortly sent back to his regiment. 
 Will your Lordship, therefore, attend to your Petitioner's case shortly, and for which may 
 you have every blessing. 
 
 Inclosure 13 in 'So. 8. 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 
 gjy " Washington, April 8, 1864. 
 
 ' WITH reference to the note which I had the honour to address to you yesterday, 
 I regret to say that I have learned that Thomas TuUey and five of the men enlisted 
 
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 at Portland, whose cases I represented to you on the 19th of last month,- were sent 
 to the army of the Potomac, and enrolled in Company D, of the 20th Maine Eegiment. 
 Five of them are, as I understand, actually serving in that regiment in the field or 
 in camp. TuUey has, I am informed, been transferred temporarily to the Finley 
 Hospital in this city. I deem it right, therefore, again to call your attention to the 
 request I made on the 19th ultimo, that these men might not be forwarded to the army, 
 nor placed in actual service, pending an investigation of the circumstances of their enlist- 
 ment. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 
 (Signed) LY01*I"S. 
 
 No. 9. 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — {Received May 1.) 
 
 My Lord, Washington, April 19, 1864. 
 
 WITH reference to my despatch of the 8th instant, and to the previous cor- 
 respondence relative to the enlistment at Portland and Boston of the Irish passengers 
 by the steamer "iffova Scotian," I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship here- 
 with a copy of a note from Mr. Seward, acknowledging the receipt of my communications 
 of the 7th and 8th instant on the subject. 
 
 I have also the honour to transmit to your Lordship copies of a despatch from 
 Mr. Consul Murray, and of its inclosures. The inclosures consist of a Report of the 
 Provost Marshal and Board of Enrolment at Portland, and of depositions on which it is in 
 part founded. 
 
 I shall endeavour to obtain further information from the enlisted men themselves, 
 as the Report of the Board does not appear to me to be conclusive as to their having been 
 fairly dealt with. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Si'gned) LYONS: 
 
 Inclosure 1 in No. 9. 
 Mr, F, Seward to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Department of State, Washington, April 12, 1864. 
 
 I HAYE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 
 7th and 8th instant, referring to that of the 19th of last month, relative to the case of 
 Thomas Tulley, Michael Byrne, and five other Irishmen, British subjects, said to have 
 improperly enlisted into the United States' military service, and the former relating also 
 to the alleged treatment of the passengers of the "Nova Scotian," and to the subject of 
 the practices of recruiting agents in regard to foreigners arriving in this country, I have 
 the honour to inform your Lordship, in reply, that I have inclosed a copy of those commu- 
 nications to the Secretary of War, whose particular attention has been drawn to the 
 request contained therein. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) F. W. ^WNAM), Acting Secretary. 
 
 Inclosure 2 in No. 9. 
 
 Consul Murray to Lord Lyons. 
 My Lord, Portland, April 1, 1864. 
 
 I HAYE the honour to transmit herewith a duplicate Report, together with a set of 
 duplicate sworn evidence, made by the Provost Marshal and Board of Enrolment at 
 Portland, to Major Gardiner, the Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General at Augusta, 
 in pursuance of instructions under date of the 1 7th ultimo, to investigate into the circum- 
 stances under which seven Irishmen had been enlisted into the military service of the 
 United States ; . the official attention of Major Gardiner having been requested by a 
 communication ffom myself dated the 14th ultimo, inclosing a copy of a petition addressed 
 to me from these men, who alleged that they had been improperly and against their will 
 enlisted into the service. 
 
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 I was present during the whole investigation, which lasted for several days, and I 
 have much pleasure in testifying to the good faith and earnest endeavours of the 
 Provost Marshal and his coadjutors in obtaining the most searching evidence. 
 
 The conclusion that the Board have come to is, that they " cannot learn that any 
 one connected with recruiting furnished any liquor to these men. That food and drink 
 were furnished to them while in confinement, such as is furnished to other prisoners in 
 like circumstances. That they were enlisted of their own free will while perfectly sober. 
 That after their enlistment they never refused to enter the service when brought before 
 the Provost Marshal, and therefore were never returned to confinement for refusing. 
 That two watches were sold to them by men in United States' uniforms, as will appear by 
 the statements of Lieutenant Strout and Sergeant Atkinson, and nothing else.'' 
 
 As this conclusion is based upon the personal knowledge of the Board, and upon 
 sworn testimony, while the written allegations of the absent Irishmen are somewhat 
 confused, and do not contain the whole truth, it will be difficult to rebut it. Yet a 
 perusal of the evidence will prove that some portion of their complaint was not without 
 reason. 
 
 The Board state no one connected with recruiting furnished any liquor to the men. 
 This may be true, or at least there may be no evidence to prove the fact as regards those 
 identical men, but there can be no doubt that there was a systematic attempt made to 
 get these emigrants drunk for the purpose of enlistment. Policeman Berrick's evidence 
 on this subject is most important. He states, " While in Mr. Bradley's (liquor store) 
 there were two or three well-dressed men, I do not know their names, but have seen them 
 in this city, who appeared to be liberal with their money. These men were not drinking 
 themselves, but the emigrants were. I saw a man who said he was from Augusta, who 
 appeared to be talking with the men out on the railroad track. This man said to me he 
 was a recruiting officer, and wanted some of my help to get some of the men. I told 
 him the police had nothing to do with business of that kind. He insinuated to me that 
 if the men wanted liquor to aid them in getting it. I told him no, that I did not drink 
 myself and would not assist in procuring any for the men." 
 
 Mr. Bradley, the keeper of the public-house testifies, that " a man came into my 
 shop and bought a defnijohn of whiskey; he carried it towards the wharf where the steam- 
 ship lay. This man was a Canadian. He told me so. I have seen him before, don't 
 know his name." 
 
 The evidence of these two persons is conclusive that the emigrants were treated to 
 liquor ; that the expected result took place — they got drunk, and some of them were 
 conveyed to the Station-house ; and that had they not been made drunk, they would 
 have gone oflf to Boston with their companions. 
 
 . The charge of intimidation is founded, I presume, upon the evidence of police officer 
 Cole, who states that when they asked him what would be their punishment for getting 
 drunk and for riotous behaviour, replied that they would be fined thirty ihillings sterling, 
 or be liable to imprisonment for thirty days. This may be the law, but I much doubt 
 whether it is carried out in practice. 
 
 The evidence given by the police officers and the recruiting officers proves that 
 there was a very good understanding between these functionaries, and that the latter were 
 even called and admitted to the cells with the object of inducing the men to enlist. 
 
 The charge of having watches and jewellery palmed off upon them by persons in the 
 uniform of the United States is met by the statement of Lieutenant Strout and Serjeant 
 Atkinson, who, while they admit having sold them two watches at their earnest request, 
 declare that also, at their desire, they accompanied the men to the watchmakers and 
 other shops to make purchases, as it is not permitted to new recruits to go about by 
 
 themselves. 
 
 With regard to Thomas TuUey, if due credit be given to the evidence of policeman 
 Berrick, it would appear that he came over with the object of enlisting, not caring on which 
 side he fought, but only for the party who gave him most money. I must however 
 remark, on his behalf, that I understand on his leaving Camp Berry, he and one other of 
 his companions refused to accept a portion of the bounty money due to them. 
 
 Major Mc Clellan has not thought proper to acknowledge the receipt of my communi- 
 eation of the 14th ultimo, and I have been given to understand that he does not intend 
 to do so, as he objects to the tone of it. 
 
 (Signed) / HENRY JOHlir MURRAY. 
 
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 Incksure 3 in No. 9. 
 
 Report. 
 
 Provost Marshal's djfiog^ Portland, April 2, 1864. 
 
 WE have the hoisour to make the following report, as to the 'circumstances laider 
 which Thomas Tulley, Miehael Byrne, James Higgi»s, Michael Moran, Edward Cassidy, 
 Thomas Burke, and Martin Hogan, were enlisted at this 'Office. This vm^vt was caled 
 for by your commuuication of March 1 7, 1864. A •copy of a communication to Honour- 
 able Jacob Mc Cella«n, Mayor of this city, was furnisited us, wihich we forwai'd with this 
 Report. This communication was written by Her Majesty's Consul sd this port, Henry 
 John Murray, ^q. We assumed that this communicatian was in the nature of a 
 complaint, and our object has been to arrive at the truth or felaity of -^ese charges, by 
 the last testimony that oouM. be procured. Her Maj-esty's 'CobsuI was invited to be 
 present and take a part in the investigation, and we are pleased to saf he has been 
 present during the entire investigation and taken a part in the same, and while he has 
 been faithful to the interests of the Government that be j^raresents, the entii'e intercourse 
 between him and this Board has been of the most pleasant character. While we had no 
 express order to take the testimony of any individual in the case, we supposed that a 
 ^rave question of international policy was at stake, and that our own report would be of 
 more vgdae, if we shoiuld forward the sworn testimony that we have taken in the case upon 
 which our Report is partially based. Of course a certain portion of our Report is made up 
 from our own knowledge, and no testimony ofcher than that of this Board could rbe 
 procured. We commenced the investigation oa the morning of the 25th day of Ma>rch, 
 and continued from #ay to day, as the other business of the office would permit, imtil Mie 
 final campletioai. 
 
 The steani-Aip " ]N"ova Scoitaam " larrived at this port on the morning of the 9th of 
 March, bringing a large number of* Irish steerage passengers. As to the contract that 
 they had signed to go to Boston we have no authentic proof, but suppose timt to be ,the 
 case. The first knowledge that we had of these men is tha^ they landed, and about 
 half-past 10 o'clock went to the house of James Bradly, jun., aaid called for food ; some 
 of the men were intoxicated when they arrived there ; those who had food had rxmsneynith. 
 which to pay their bills, and did pay in English coin. Prior to this, as appears from the 
 statement of James BradJy, jun., a man, who said he was from Caaada, bfiwght a demijohn 
 of whiskey, a.nd cariaed it down towards the wharf where these 'emigrantB landed. We 
 do not know whethei- any of this liquoit was served out to the men or not. Thiais far we 
 have not been able to learn who furnished or paid for the liquor that they drank ; quite a 
 number of these passengers became drunk, noisy, and troublesome. The police tried 
 to keep :Aem quiet uatil they could be forwarded to Boston, but they did not succeed, 
 and several were carried to the watch-bonse. The evidence of the several rpoHeeatoen is 
 referred to show these facts. Thomas Tulley, Michael Byrne, James Hig'.gpbi, and 
 Michael Moran, and other men who were not mustered into the United States' service, 
 w-ere among -the men arrested by the police. As to their treatment while in the watch- 
 house s®e the testimony of the police. We refer' to the testimony of John OelKias, 
 recruiting officer, as to the condition of the three first named at tiie time of enlist- 
 ment. 
 
 We believe that these men were , perfectly sober when enlisted by Mr, OoUiiks, and 
 that they enlisted into the contract to serve in the military service of the country voian- 
 tarily. Mr. Collins enlisted Tulley, Higgins, and Byrne, and one other who was a^ejiecited 
 by thie Board. At first Byrne was examined and rejected for some (Mfficulty with his 
 foot. He was very anxious to be accepted ; stated that he had been in the British Bast 
 India Service, and had marched and could march with perfect ease ; and isn proof of his 
 having been a soldier took a musket aad wient through with the manual of arras with 
 ^,ceat precision. After mature deliberation and examination of the 34tk section -of 
 circular, No. 1 series of 1864, the Board decided to acoepifc him. Patrick Brophe, the 
 other one who was enlisted by Mr. OoUiiis, was rejected for varicose veins. He was very 
 anxious to be accepted, and was very much (disappointed when the Board decided to reject 
 him. We do know that Thomas Tulley, James HiggisiS, and Michael Byrne were mustered 
 into the service when perfectly sober and according to their own express desire. We 
 know Tiothing about the enUstmeo^ of Burke, Cassidy, Moran, and Hogan ; only from 
 teirtiinoiio^ 'of , John M. Todd, a recruifriiig ^officer, whose statement accompanies this 
 report, and of police officer Cole, whose statement corroborates Mr. Todd's in some 
 particulars. We refer to the statement xtf Mr, Todd, and believe in its correctness. 
 Burke and Cassidy were presented for examination the afternoon of the 9th, but the 
 
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 surgeon i»luii@d to examine them because fe^ were mtosimted, and they were taken 
 away ; brought m the ntest day with Moran, and the three were escamitted and' mustered. 
 Hogaas was examined and nkusteredi the 11th day. At no time have any of these seven 
 men ever refused or expressed the slightest objections to be examined or musrtered, but, 
 on the contrary, earnestly desired it. Hogan never was in confinement at all ; therefore 
 the. whole complaint as to H(^a,n falls to the geound. Therefore, in conclusion, we say 
 that we cannot learn that any one connected with recruiting furnished any liquor to those 
 men ; that food and drink was furnished to them while in confinement such as is fornished 
 to other prisoners in like circumstances ; that they were enlisted of their own free will 
 while perfectly sober ; that after their enlistment they never refused to enter the service 
 when brought before the Provost-Marshal, and therefore were never returned to confine-, 
 ment for refusing ; that two watches were sold to them by men in United States' uniform, 
 as will appear by the statements of Lieutenant Stroiit and Sergeant Atkinson, and nothing 
 else. 
 
 Hoping that this Eeport is satisfactory we subscribe ourselves, &c, 
 
 (^Bedf) CHARGES H. DOUaHTT. Ccuptain and Pwvost MasshoAi. 
 
 EDWAfiD S. MORRIS, Commissioner. 
 
 GHAS. W. THOMAS, M,©., Burgeon. 
 
 Inclosure 4 in No. 9. 
 Statement afJ. W. Callins. 
 
 MY vaxae is John W.. Collins. I am a recruiting officer for the city of PoriJand. 
 On the morning of the 10th day of March I received information front Police Officer 
 Wiiliam Foster that if I would go up to the watch-house it was his impression that there 
 was a man there in cell liI"o. 5 who was desirous to enlist,* I went to the cell Mo. 5 about 
 9 A.M., and asked the man if he wished to enlist. He told me he did, but would not 
 in jffison. This was Thomas TuUey. He represented himself from the county of Gal way, 
 Irelafjd, I said to him he would not be asked to enlist in prison : you are strangem and 
 Irishmen, and far be it from me to take any advantage of you. TuUey then said he would 
 confte out, and did come out of his cell, walked about to the other cells for about half an 
 houir, talking with his companions. He went back into the cell and said he woiild not 
 enlist. He asked me what would be done with him. I told him I could not tell him, 
 I then went to the Mayor's ofiice, found there the City Marshal, J, S. Healdj and the 
 Mayor ef Portland. I said to Mr. Heald the men imprisoned were .under the impression 
 th^ were prisoners, and would not enlist. I thought if they were set a liberty I could 
 enlist some of them. Mr. Heald said, I have no. objection for you to take the men and 
 do the best you can with them. The Mayor said he would not have the impression go 
 abs0a4 that we coerced men to enlist in the city of Portland under any consideration. 
 The'Mayor aad Mr. Hieald (the Marshal) told Police-officer Giale to go down and liberate, 
 the^ men. He did so. The men were going out the back door. I told them no, that 
 was the wat^-hoase door; come upstairs, out through the' City Building, at the front 
 door. They did so. The men were perfectly sober. They told, me they were dry and 
 hungFjf. When they came out of the ^jront door I said to them, There, men, you are at 
 liberty to go where you please, but if you are desirous ef enlisting give me thepreference ; 
 I will do as well by you as any other recruiting agent will ; I will guarantee that you 
 have every cent that belongs to you. ^ I showed them wherfe the recruiting-office was 
 that I kept. Thomas Tulley, James Higgins, and Michael Byrne followed me dowii aaid 
 went in. They wanted some liquor. I said to them that I had takeui solema oath that 
 I would not give any man as much liquor as would write his name to any man tqi induce 
 him to enlist. I repeated this to them several times. After they found that I would 
 not furnish them with liquor'thSy" consulted among themselves for about half an hour, and 
 asked me to fill their papers. TuUeyfpign«d them first, then Byrne, then Higgins, They 
 enlisted about half-past 11 o'clock in the forenoon. From the time they were 
 discharged tiU the time they were enlisted they wer,e perfectly free to come or go 
 where they chose. If they had wished to see the British Consul they had perfect freedom 
 to 4o so. M they had asked me to accompany them to the British Consul' I should/have 
 done so. I. took the three men up to the Pro^o&t) Mai^hal-'s office. Tulley and Higgins 
 were accepted. Byrne was at first rejected foar a bunch on hisl foot, but he was very 
 ansieus to. go ; said he had beea in the Bisitiahi service, ajjid his foot did not trouble him. 
 
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 The Board of Enrolment consulted together, and with Captain Lane of the 20th Regiment, 
 and finally accepted him, and he was mustered in with Tulley and Higgins. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN W. COLLINS. 
 
 State of Maine, Cumberland, ss., April 1, 1864. 
 
 I', 
 Personally appeared John W. Collins, above-named, and made oath to the truth of 
 'the statement by him signed before me. 
 Signed before me, 
 (Signed) Edwb. S. Morris, Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Inclosure 6 in No. 9, 
 Statement of John M. Todd. 
 
 MY name is John M. Todd; I reside in the city of Portland; am a recruiting officer. 
 On the 9th day of March, while I was at dinner, about 12 o'clock, a serjeant and one 
 other man came to mj house and informed me they could bring me some men. When I 
 went to my hair-dressing rooms, on Middle-street, I found them with Edward Cassidy, 
 Thomas Burke, and Michael Moran. I enlisted, about 10 o'clock p.m., Burke and 
 Cassidy. They were not intoxicated at the time. Moran refused to enlist at that time. 
 I gave him my business-card that he mighi know where to go if he wanted to enlist after- 
 wards. After Burke and Cassidy enlisted they went out with Sergeant Stewart and 
 Robert Curran, and I did not see them again till half-past 3 o'clock, when Cassidy 
 and Burke came back and wanted to go up to the Provost Marshal's Office and be 
 examined. Cassidy was quite drunk. Burke was somewhat intoxicated when they came 
 back. I went there with them. 
 
 The surgeon made a partial ^examination of Burke; Cassidy was so drunk that he 
 would not examine him. Cassidy was so noisy that one of the police said he should arrest 
 them if they went out into the street. They went below in the same building to the Police 
 Office, and were locked up in the cells. Burke was not so drunk as Cassidy, but said he 
 would not be separated from him ; but if he was put in the lock-up he would go too. 
 The next morning Robert Curran came to my shop and said the police wanted to see me 
 at the office to take those men out. I went up to the cells ; a man spoke to me and said, 
 there is the man I agreed to go with, I have got his card. And he took the card I gave 
 him out of his pocket. This was Moran, who was in my shop thfe day before. I took 
 out the three men. I took Cassidy and Burke to the Provost Marshal's Office ; they were 
 examined and mustered. Moran went down to the shop ; he enlisted there, came back to 
 the Provost Marshal's Office, was examined and mustered. Moran was enlisted as soon 
 as he got down to my office from the cell. 
 
 The afternoon of the 10th Martin Hoga,n was brought to me by Sergeant Stewart 
 for enlistment. He was perfectly sober when he enlisted. I took him to the Provost 
 Marshal's Office; but the Pi'ovost Marshal would not muster that afternoon, as he 
 mustered men in the forenoon. Sergeant Stewart took him to the camp and kept him 
 over night. Brought him to the Marshal's Office in the morning of the 11th, when he 
 was mustered into service. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN M. TODD. 
 
 State of Maine, Cumberland, ss., April 1, 1864. 
 
 Personally appeared John M. Todd and made oath to the truth of the above 
 statement. 
 
 Before me, 
 (Signed) Edward S. Morris, Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Inclosure 6 in No. 9. 
 Statement of H. G. Cole, 
 
 MY name is Harrison G, Cole. I am one of the police officers of the city of 
 Portland ; I have charge of the Station-house. 1 had charge of the station house on the 
 9th and 10th days of March, 1864, during the day. Deputy Marshal Wentworth had 
 charge of the Station-house during the night of the days above-mentioned. My duties 
 
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 -cease at 6 o'clock p.m., and commenced in the morning at half past 7 or 8 o'clock. On 
 the afternoon of the 9th of March about half past 5 o'clock Edward Oassidy and 
 Thomas Burke were brought to the Police Office by John M. Todd, a recruiting officer. 
 One of them, I think Burke, was very drunk, the other was somewhat intoxicated — 
 considerably so. Mr. Todd came to me before he brought the men, and said they were 
 so drunk they would not examine them that afternoon, and asked me if I would lock them 
 -up and keep them till they were sober till the next morning. I understood him to mean 
 that they would not be examined in the Provost Marshal's Office while they were drunk. 
 I hesitated. I asked him where the men were. I told him if he would bring the men to 
 me I would see whether I would lock them up or not. If they were drunk I would lock 
 them up. He brought in Cassidy and Burke. I saw that they were both too drunk to 
 be in the street. I told him I would lock them up and did. t saw no more of these men 
 that night. Todd had no access to them that night, and no one else outside of the Police 
 Office. Between half-past 8 and 9 the next morning Todd called for these men. He 
 said he had enlisted these men on the day before and wanted them. He said they got 
 drunk after he enlisted them. He claimed that he had enlisted them. He claimed that 
 ie had enlisted Mr. Moran, who was in the lock-up arrested by the police, and insisted 
 upon taking him out. He produced before me a sergeant who he said brought the men 
 to him to enlist. I discharged Moran and Cassidy and Burke, and he took them away. 
 I think he shewed me enlisting papers, am not sure. They did not ask for food or water 
 to my knowledge the evening they were locked up. The next morning . between 
 8 and 9 o'clock 1 gave all the prisoners in the lock-up water myself several times, and 
 crackers to all who wished. I do not recollect particularly about Moran, Cassidy, and 
 Burke, whether they had food or not. They were discharged earlier than the other 
 - prisoners. These men would have been discharged by me by 10 o'clock in the morning 
 if Todd had not called for them in company with the sergeant. They were taken charge 
 of by me simply for the peace and order of the city, and for the safety of the men 
 themselves. Thomas TuUey, Michael Byrne, and James Higgins, were brought to the 
 office by the police on the afternoon of the 9th of March, between the hours of 1 2 and 
 3 o'clock. 1 was not in the office when they were brought in, but I saw them after they 
 were locked up. They were very drunk and noisy. One of them was almost a maniac; 
 he broke up the bucket in his cell and was very noisy. All of them were crazy drunk. 
 ISo one outside of the office had access to them that afternoon, to my knowledge. I do 
 not now remember that I gave them any food that afternoon. I gave them water several 
 times. They did not ask for food. I think they asked for water. The next morning I 
 went around, and gave them water and gave them crackers. Some ot them refused to 
 take the food offered — said they wanted breakfast. I replied to them that was the fare that 
 the prisoners had. Before their discharge some of them expressed a wish to go on to Boston j 
 some of them asked me what would be done with them as a punishment. I told them if 
 they were brought before the Court they would be fined in sterling money about II. lOs. 
 They replied to me they had no money. I told them if their agent would not pay their 
 fine, they would be liable to imprisonment for thirty days ; such is the law in such cases. 
 A little after 9 o'clock, in conversation with Deputy Marshal "Wentworth, I learned those 
 men were not to be put before the Court. Something was said in the office, not in 
 presence of the men, that some of them wished to enlist. Mr. Collins, a recruiting officer, 
 came in, and asked me if there was not some men there who wanted to enlist. I replied 
 I did not know whether there was or not. He asked me if he should go in to speak with 
 the men. I told him I had no objection. He went in and talked with the men. I 
 asked him what success he had. He said one wanted to enlist. I asked which one it 
 was; he pointed out the man ; I do not know which one it, was; 1 am not positive, but 
 think it was Higgins. I went to the man, and asked him if he wanted to enlist. He 
 said he might as well enlist hereas go to Boston and enlist. I gave him all the facts in 
 relation to the bounty he would get. He said he, wanted to get out of the place he was 
 in ; did not want to enlist there at any rate. I told him he could not enlist there at any 
 rate. Then there was something said about what would be done with them if they did 
 not enlist. I told them they probably would be holden there till their agent came for 
 them at half-past 12 train. I had some conversation with the Deputy Marshal about 
 turning them out. This man seemed to be anxious to enlist, and I discharged him after 
 conversation with Deputy Wentworth. He went to the other men, and tried to persuade 
 them to enlist. Finally some of them concluded to enlist. I told them. they would not 
 be forced to enlist if they were discharged. The men were all uneasy aijid wanted to get 
 out. , After further conversation with the Deputy, I discharged these men out of the cells, 
 every one of them. I unlocked the cells of the whole of them.; told each one of them 
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 back to &e office, Theal sftoivie.dft]aiMii IJhe wa,y ©.mt ; this between 10 and II e'clocfe a.m. 
 ISTot one of tJiese men hare since beeii' broia^ht feaek to liVie poKce office except Michad 
 MoraB, who was arrested on suspicion a!5 a deserter on Marofe 11, at a Ywm& oiP HI feme 
 in this'citj. Mr. Huse, a special agent from thie I*roT08fc-Marsb»rs office, took him oB* 
 
 of the loek-np March 12. 
 
 ^ (Signed) HAERISON G. COLE. 
 
 State of Maine, Gumbeiland, ss., April 1, 1864. 
 
 PersoBially appeared Harrison G. Cole above-named, and made oath to the trwth of 
 the s-tatement by 'Mm signed. 
 Before me, 
 (Srigned) Edward S. Mobbis, Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Inclosure 7 in ^o. 9. 
 Statement of J. H. Bewick. 
 
 MY name is James H. Bewick. I am one of the police officers of Portland. I was 
 the first officer present at the Grand Trunk depot on the 9th of March, at the time of the 
 rioifc: of the steerage passengers of the "Nova Scotian." I was sent for by the agent who 
 brought over the men : was on the ground as early as 11 o'clock a.m. Mr. Floyd, who 
 came after me, said that the agent wanted to keep the men from getting liquor. The 
 most of the men were in Peter Bradley's liquor-shop. I went in Bradley's shop to look 
 after the agent, I should think there were from twenty-five to forty in the shop ; s-ome 
 were drinking — some were eating crackers and cheese. I did not find the agent. I 
 stopped a few minutes — came out of the shop. The crowd appeared to gather around 
 the shop of Bradley. I went from thence to the passenger depot of the Grrand TruTrk 
 Kailway. I found the men there talking ; one of them asked me if something could not 
 be done to shut up the rum-shops (meaning P. H. Bradley's and others) ; that they were 
 raising hell with the men. This man appeared to be an Englishman ; from his conversa- 
 tion 1 supposed him to be one of the passengers who came in the same vessel. 
 
 Mr. Floyd pointed out the agent to me, who wanted me to assist him in keeping his 
 men together till the train was ready for Boston. While we were talking, two or three 
 men came up to him and wanted him to give them some liqu'or ; he said, " 'Eo, not now ; 
 but after we get things righted we will see about it." "While talking with him, some one 
 called out for a fight. I made my way into the crowd and separated those men who were 
 figh<feing. I went home to dinner for a few minutes ; got back about half-past 12, and 
 found a large number collected ; then several other policemen were present. There was 
 a gneat uproar. We tried to restrain them — put some of them into the fireight depot to 
 keep them. 
 
 The great object of Deputy Marshal Wentworth and the police force was to keq^ 
 them quiet, and get them off to Boston as quietly as possible. While in Mr. Bradley^S 
 there were two or three well-dressed men, I do not know their names but have seen theBS 
 in this city, who appeared to be liberal with their money. These men were not drinking 
 themselves, but the emigrants were. I saw a man, who said he was from Augusta, wKb' 
 appeared to be talking with the men out on the raikoad track, This man said to me he 
 was a recruiting officer, and wanted some of my help to get some of the men. I told 
 him the' poli«e had nothing to do with business of that kind. He insinuated to me that 
 if the men wanted liquor to aid them in getting it. I told him, no; that I did not 
 drin'k myself and would not assist in procuring any for the men. 
 
 I saw no one that I knew to be connected with recruitfing fdr tMs c^ or vicinity 
 present during the riot, except Mr. Floyd. I do not know thait Mr; Flbyd'iis a recruiting 
 officer. The nest day I saw John W. Collins enli'St Thomas TuUey, Midba/el Byrne, and 
 :^ James Higgins. They were down at Mr. Collins' reeruitiiig offiee. ColHtt* asked them 
 ^ if #hey were ready to enlist ; they said they were : they were perfectly sobtgr, and sig»ed 
 the papers voluntarily. During the night before they enlisted the next day^ I ftirnished 
 the prisoners with water and food, and had conversation with TuUey. He asked rB!e if 
 many of his countrymen were in the army, I told him there were. He said he cam/e 
 over here to fight. I asked him for what. He said it did not make a damn's difference 
 to him whether for the I^orth or the South ; he would go where he got the most money. 
 At 12 o'clock that night I gave Thomas Tulley five crackei-S' aa&d water. I gave the othei* 
 priBoners water and crackers at the same time. 
 
 It is con*rs(iry t© the rules of the office to refuse water <«■ food to any^ pristeme!*' 
 
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 whenever they call for it. We ean hear the priB<Mers talk or shout from the cells into 
 the police rooms, so that if any one should call they can he easily heard by the police. 
 
 After these three men signed the eniistm-ent papers they came up to the new city 
 building, and before they went into the Provost-Marshal's room to be mustered, they 
 waited to go to the police-office in the same building, and see if any others would enlist. 
 ^I^y w«nt down and went in mtti ihem, and Tuiley tried to persuade others to enlist, hut 
 ■none of them did enlist. 
 
 {Signed) JAMES H. BEWICK. 
 
 State of Maine, Cumberland, w., April 4, 1864. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to. 
 Before me, 
 {Signed) Edward S. MoTiRfS, Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Inclosure 8 in No. 9. 
 Siat^emeni of A. Wentw&rth. 
 
 MY name is Alonzo Wentworth. I am one of the Deputy Marshals of the city of 
 Parttand, About 1 o'clock p.m. the 9th of March, my attention was ■called down to ^he 
 foot of India 'Street, near tJie Grrand Trunk Depdt. I found when I arrived there, ih&VQ 
 was a large crowd. I found several men intoxicarted. The police force arrested seven 
 or eight men. They were fighting with each other, and with aiiy one that came alokg. 
 They were brought to the watch-house. Pour of them were brought upon a team; two of 
 the four were dead drunk and two were fighting each other. They were "put into the 
 lock-up in separate cells. I had charge of the "station-house" that night. IsTo one had 
 access to any of the prisoners during the trigW, to my knowledge, eaaeept the p^ice. I 
 made the records in the office. Thomas Tulley, James Higgins, Michael Moranft> Tand 
 Michael Byrne were brought up in the cart. One of them resisted Ifee officers iff their 
 attempts to arrest the men. He had been drinking, but wa,s not so drunk as the rest. I 
 think this was Moran. About 8 o'clock the next morning Mr. Todd, the recruiting • 
 officer, came up to the office. He wanted to go in and talk with the men. I told him 
 he could not till I made my morning return. I ^went into the cells and saw the pri»i|iNfs. 
 Some of them asked me what was going to be done with them. I tojd them they would 
 remain there till their ag^nt came back from Boston in the noon train. After that 
 Mr. Collins came up and wanted to go out. He went out, came back, and said there was 
 one thatt want-ed to enlist. He said "he would like to take him down to his " recruiting 
 ^office." I toM Mr. Cole to ^ and let him out. I think this was about half -paSt 9. He 
 toofk Iffln 'Oal; ; vras goae one half or three-quarters of an hour, "when Mr. Coffins -and the 
 •man that 1 had disdbarged 'Wanted to go in and see' the others who were in the 'ceEs. 
 ^^ley both went ia^o fihe ^flace where the men were, stopped pei^haps. fifteen minutes, 
 fthcR came into toy office. Mr. Cole soon came in ; said tJie men were very uneasy and 
 ^Wftttted to get oat. I toUd him to go and let them all out. I think they were \&t out 
 a%otit haif-paist 10 o'doct. When they came into the office I told them thiesy wa-e free 
 to ^o where they i^hose. Kot one of them was Unlisted -while in or aTjout the office. 
 They had crackers awd water, the same as olJher prisoners get. They asked for water 
 frequently, and received it. Mr. Coffins spoke to me, and wished to go in and see them 
 in the ev^ing. I tvouM not permit him to, as they were too drunk. After they were 
 once taken ftH)m-&e eells they were not taken back again. 
 
 (Signed) ALONZO WENTWORTH. 
 
 State of Matne,'Cumib€rian'd,'fts., March 31, 1864. 
 
 Personally appeared AJonzo Wentworth, and made oath to the truth of the above 
 Bt«te«iefi*, 'bysiim ■signed 
 ©eforewie, 
 (Signed) Edward S. Morris, Justice of the Peace. 
 
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 Inclosure 9 in No. 9. 
 
 Statement of W. Foster. 
 
 MY name is William Foster ; am one of the police of the city of Portland. I arrested 
 the man who was put into the cell I^To. 5 of the watch-house. While we were coming from the 
 place of arrest near the depot of the Grand Trunk Eailway to the watch-house, he said 
 he wanted to enlist. I told him he was too drunk to enlist. This was on the afternoon 
 of the 9th of March, and this man was one of the passengers of the steamer " l!fova 
 Scotian." I saw nothing of this man after he was put into the cell till 7 o'clock the next 
 morning. He then asked me for water. I gave him some, and all other prisoners that 
 were in the lock-up. After he got through drinking the water, he asked me how long 
 they would have to stay in there. I told him they would most likely get out by 
 10 o'clock. I asked him if he was going to Boston to work on the railroad. He told 
 me he should not go with that agent any further. I asked him what he thought of doing. 
 He said he should go into the army if. he got a chance, I told him that he could get as 
 good a chance here in the army as anywhere. He asked me what the bounty was. I 
 told him if he should enlist here, pass the surgeon, he would get 200 dollars down. I 
 told him he would get 100 dollars or more before he left the State. He wanted to know 
 where he could go to enlist. I told him there were plenty of recruiting officers where he 
 could enlist. I told him as soon as he was discharged he could go down by the post- 
 office, and there were several recruiting offices there ; or if he wished me I could send 
 to him one of his brother countrymen. He wanted me to send him, and I sent him to 
 John W. Collins. I have not seen the man since. 
 
 (Signed) W. FOSTEK. 
 
 State of Maine, Cumberland, ss., March 31, 1864. 
 
 Personally appeared W. Foster, and made oath to the truth of the above statement, 
 by him signed 
 
 Before me, 
 (Signed") Edward S. Morris, Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Inclosure 10 in No. 9. 
 
 Statement of W. Irish, T. Beals, C. Williams, and M. Akers. 
 
 THE undersigned members of the police of the city of Portland testify, depose, and 
 say, that we were present on the 9th day of March, 1864;, as the police force under 
 Deputy Marshal Alonzo Wentworth at the riot of the steerage passengers from the 
 steam-ship "Nova Scotian," near the Grand Trunk Dep6t, and we made the arrest of 
 Thomas TuUey, Michael Bryne, James Higgins, Michael Moran, and other passengers. 
 We further state that we carried the persons arrested into the depot of the Grand 
 Trunk Railway, and tried to keep them quiet there, until the train should come along to 
 go up to the Boston dep6t, that they might proceed to Boston in the train which leaves 
 about half'past 2 o'clock p.m. We kept them there about an hour, but they were so 
 boisterously drunk that we were obliged to carry them to the station-house for safe keep- 
 ing. Four of the number were taken there on a cart. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM B. IRISH. 
 
 THOMAS P. BEALS. 
 
 CHARLES H. WILLIAMS. 
 
 MUHLON AKERS. 
 State of Maine, Cumberland, ss., April 2, 1864, 
 
 Personally appeared the above-named William B. Irish, Thomas B. Beals> Charles 
 H. Wilhams, and Muhlon Akers, and severally made oath that the above statement by 
 them signed is true. 
 
 Before me, 
 (Signed) Edward S. Morris, Justice of the Peace. 
 
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 Inclosure 11 in No. 9. 
 
 Statement of J. Bradley, Jun. 
 
 I, JAMBS BRADLEY, Junior, testify and saj that I keep a public-house or hotel 
 on the corner of India and Commercial-street, near the depdt of the GTrand Trunk Eail- 
 way. I was present the 9th day of March at the time of the riot of the steerage- 
 passengers of the steam-ship "Nova Scotian." Several of the passengers came into my 
 place at about half-past 10 o'clock in the morning, and vranted something to eat. I went 
 up into the dining-hall. They ordered whatever they wanted. I stayed there five or 
 ten minutes, and then went down to the first-floor again, and stayed a few minutes. The 
 man who had the charge of the dining-hall called to me to come up and bring some 
 silver change. I then went up to the dining-hall. They paid their bills in silver and 
 ^old, most of it English silver and gold coin. They did not call for any liquor. I have 
 not charge of the bar. They drank with their food tea and coflFee. Before the 
 passengers came around my place between 8 and 9 o'clock a.m. a man came into my 
 shop, and bought a demijohn of whiskey. He carried it towards the wharf where the 
 steam-ship lay. This man was a Canadian. He told me so. I have seen him before. 
 Don't know his name. I saw no recruiting officers or any one else pay for or order any 
 liquor for the Irish passengers. I know all the recruiting officers. After I came down 
 stairs the second time I saw quite a crowd in and about the" bar-room, I ordered them 
 ■out, and closed the doors. I asked the police officers and others to clear the side 
 walks. I should think some of these passengers had been drinking considerably when they 
 first came. 
 
 (Signed) JAMES BRADLEY, Jun. 
 
 State of Maine, Cumberland,, ss., April 1, 1864. 
 
 Personally appeared James Bradley, Junior, and made oath to the truth of the above 
 statement, by him signed 
 Before me, 
 (Signed) Edward S. Morris, Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Inclosure 12 in No. 9. 
 Statement of Lieutenant F. H. Strout. 
 
 I, LIEUTENANT F. H. STROUT, testify and say that I am on duty at the 
 Provost-Marshal's Office in Portland.' A part of my duty is to take charge of recruits 
 after they are mustered, and see that they are properly clothed with United States' 
 uniforms. I clothed Thomas TuUey, Michael Byrne, James Higgins, Edward Cassidy, 
 Thomas Burke, and Michael Moran, on the lOlh day of March, and Martin Hogan on the 
 11th. "While in the clothing-room Michael Moran remarked to me that he was going 
 out about town after he was uniformed. I told him he could not go unless a guard went 
 with him — this is the common custom with all recruits. He asked me if I would go with 
 him. I told him I would after I had got through with my work and had time. I went 
 down town with him ; went to W. J. Gillmau's, jeweller's store. He then bought a watCh 
 and chain of Mr. Grillman. He paid 23 dollars for the watch and chain ; it was a patent- 
 lever silver-cased watch, full jewelled, and plated chain. Then I went with him to a 
 merchant-tailor's shop. He then bought some collars, a pair of suspenders, and, I think, 
 some other things. Then I returned with him, put him into the guard-room that adjoins 
 the Provost-Marshal's Office, and delivered him into the charge of Serjeants Atkinson 
 and Record, who take charge of the recruits until they are sent to the camp at 4 p.m. 
 When I came back with him one of the other men looked at his watch, and made a 
 remark that he would like a watch. I told him I had a watch similar to that, if not 
 better ; I would sell it to him if he wished to buy. I showed it to him ; he asked me the 
 price. I offered it for 26 doUars, watch and chain. He bought it of me, and I delivered 
 the watch to him. I don't know his name. 
 
 (Signed) FREDERICK H. STROUT. 
 
 State of Maine, Cumberland, ss., March 31, 1864. 
 
 Personally appeared Lieutenant F. H. Strout, and made oath that the above 
 statement, by him signed, is true. 
 Before me, 
 (Signed). Edward S. Morris, Justice of the Peace. 
 
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3!2 
 
 Statemm of ^rffeUM :^. ©. 'JfMnson. 
 
 1, SAMfEh ^. ATSIFSOK, aisergeant of the 12111 Slairie volunteers, testig-, dr^pse 
 and say 'tliat I am on ^ii^y at the !Provost Marshal's Office at Portland wi^h oefparffc 
 Ee'cord. I was on Suty the 10th day of March when Tulley, iByrne, ECi^gms, 'Md:^, 
 Cassi^, and ^fiurk'e were mustered in. That day there were twelve men mustered into 
 service ; seven of them were Irishmen, 'the others were Yankees. One o'f them asked me 
 wliat 1 would take for my watch. He commenced the conversation ahout 'the trade. 1 
 told him I would take 24 dollars for watch and chain. He paid me that sum. 1 do hot 
 know whether it was a Yankee or an Irishman. 1 went down town with one of the 
 Irislimen who wanted to buy a watch; he bought one at Merrill'Sjjeweller's shop, and paid 
 24 dollars for watch and chain : this Was just such a watch as I sold the first man. One ctf 
 the other men came to me, and wanted me to go out and buy him one. I went to 
 ]!fe[errilt's and l)ought him a watch just like the owier two, and ;paid. the same price. 1 
 could not identify either of those men if I should see them. 
 
 (Signed) SAMtffiL B. ATKINSON'. 
 
 State of Maine, Cumberland, ss., March 31, 1S64. 
 
 Personally a<ppeared Samuel D. Atkinson above named, and made oath to the truth 
 dt'the statement, l)y him signed 
 'feefore me, 
 (Si@n«d) Edward S^ Morris> Justice of the Peace, 
 
 IffcloiSure 14 in No. 9. 
 Statement of Sergeant A. C. Record. 
 
 I, ALEXANDER C. RECORD, a Sergeant of the 12th Maine Regiment, testify 
 and depose and say that I am on duty at the 'Provost TMarshal's office at Portland. My 
 duty is to take charge of recruits who -afl-e mustered at the Provost Marshal's office. 
 Serjeant Samuel D. Atkinson is on similar duty at the same place. I was on duty the 
 day that Tulley, Byrne, Higgins, Morah, Cassidy and Burkfe Were clustered the lOth day 
 of March^and Hogan on the 11 th. I sold no man any watches or, jewellery, or any other 
 tilings. 1 saw no watches or je'wellery sold by any person to any of these recruits. No 
 person to my knowledge was admitted to the room with anything to sell. 
 
 (Signed) A. C. ftECOHI). 
 
 Stiite of Maine, Cumberland, ss.j 'March 31, 1864. 
 
 ^■ersonally appeared Alexander t!. Record, and made oath to the truth of the aibove 
 statement, by him signed 
 Before me, 
 (Signed) Edward S. liULo^lns, Justice of the Peace. 
 
 fVlf ■ fW-" -• ..y'"-' TT',. -■-■-.p..., ...-. ... - .■.^., ., -- - ,., .,,. ... .. 
 
 !Ro. 10. 
 'Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — {Received M(^ Q.) 
 %'Lbrd^ ... Wai%ingtoh,,^rir^% 'i&64. 
 
 your "Lordship's despatches of the Slst of March ancl of the it'h oi April, t 
 have also the honour to inclose a copy of a communication 'from Mr. Seward Ibeanng tee 
 same date as my second note, and sent off before Mr. Seward received that -note. It 
 incloses a copy of a letter from the War Department stating tliat 'there stee'ms to 'be ti6 
 dCTibt that Thema^ Tulte^and the silcettofer teen enlistedfat Portland were l^tty '^listed 
 and held to service, and that therefore their discharge is not ^eeommMdedi 
 
 This statement is founded on the Report of the Board of EnToiMent at Portland, a 
 copy of which \«as sent to me by Ml?. iM«to*^'JHer Maj^%% Consul at ^oi*fend, and 
 transmitted by me to yrmr ■ Lordaliip "with my dcopntol i -«f the 19th instant. As I 
 
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 had the honour to state to your LotrdsiWp in tha,t tegs^^jh, the Report does not appear to 
 me to be conclusive as to the men's having been fairly dealt with ; nor, indeed, do I think 
 that, on the face of it, it quite we^saRts tfeyi. Q«niieil#®i©»s (|»awn from it by the War Depart- 
 ment. It is, moreover, founded in a great measure on the depositions of the policemen 
 and ueeruii^ng ageafes^ wh©; ai-e thitmselves, the persons accusec^ of having be§®'. <fcl&i*i(y 
 ^lyjejme^ in. T^vo^mm^ ^m^mpe^ iW, enlistment of the men. ^. MurrftJ? fee*?*.t^mony 
 tQ the pad feith oi%lm mem%m^.Qf the Board of Ejirolmeot in eonductiftg ikstiiaqm^ixW^ 
 te ihskt ea^ne^t endeavours to oht^afuH and trustworthy evidence.. Qtb#rwise: m'^fii %^iiP^- 
 tion might be taken to the selection of them to investigate the matter, foirthey-appi§a8-<lP fe^ye 
 been. <teia98el<rea so/Bcwfih eesicerned yiiijfeh%% final enlistment of the men that they could 
 hardly be acquitted of all blame if the enlistment was improper. 
 
 Taking all these circumstances into consideration, I have thought it right to address a 
 third note to Mr. Seward, in whi^h \ hg,Y^ ask;ed, iof a further investigation, and have 
 urged that the men ought to be heard themselves in answer to the evidence contradicting 
 their statement, and in which I hay^,, moreover, ^aJCB^stJtj|- requested that they may not be 
 exposed to meet the enemy in the field until the lawfulness of their enlistment is more 
 satiifecitoiEily proved. 
 
 I ijjclose a copy of this third, nqte, and also copi,€|s of a lette.r wlwk X h;ave ?€>ceived 
 ftquA ThoTOa?^ Tulley, *nd of a letter which I have written to himi He h now in hpgjfttgj 
 si. Wsshingtooi, and haa gjje^tk beeo, at Ijhe Legation., I haxe* seat for hm ^^^ \. fee. is 
 y^iiywt^Uisent^andwiU ]prQbahlyb.e able tot^ow some light o^t^hsQa^e^c^fecoi^ftpajBitti^ 
 a§ vseU 2^ Qft his owifc casfi. 
 
 (Signed) ' LTOlifS. 
 
 Inclosure 1 in No. iO; 
 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Reward. 
 
 Sir, Washington, April 22, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to inform you that I have received instructions from Her 
 MsyiB^^'s. QoK#J?iU»eBt to O&H your attention to the pjactices employed at Portland and 
 Bei^.W ta ^doeii; tbe> Xrisfe passengers by the ateam-yesser "■ Novai ScQtiatR " t© esnilist in 
 tbi- y«it?e(4 Slates' 3flfmf , and that I am particularly direeted to. request that you mU cause 
 a» ®%oi«y te be wade- res^pecting ^hj% proQeedings of the inan naro^ Fh^i^ ox Feeay. 
 
 Having already had the honour to address you on this matter in my notes of the 
 ig^tK \Mm& md !?th inM§yp*. in aRticipatioQ of the ia^tjtietjanjs of Hw Maggy's Giavern- 
 «l«©t,> I ^i^ili Qost««ib n^yseif o^ the present occasion, w-th simply recoBiTOWding it once 
 Mm^ t'O 1»te s#EiQ(BS! e^BsidtfatJQn of the Government q| the United States, 
 
 , I ha^fe, &&&>. 
 
 Inclosme 2 in ISo, 10. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 
 gir^ Washington, April 23, 1864. 
 
 WITH a note dated the 19tb ultkno I had the ho^nour to transmit to you a copy of a 
 despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Portland, recounting the circumstances under 
 which seven Irishmen, who wese b»0«ght to this eounwy by the man named Feeny or 
 PheejEiy on bpard the ste^nor.yessel " Nova Scotian" were induced to enter the milit^ 
 seryJce'of the United ^ateg. He.r M9,jesty's Govern ptient Qqncejve that, if -the i%f%rmatian 
 giyen to Her Ill^jesty'S Qonsul was correct, the enlistment of these Irishmen was manifestly 
 ifa,proper, and' Her Majesty's Government have accordingly directed ?ae to apply to the 
 Government of the United States fbr their release. 
 
 Having thu^ acquitted iTiyself of the duty prescribed by the instructions of Her 
 Majesty's GWerniqemi, I deejm il; right to revert, to the applications which I m^de tq yqu,, 
 in qnticiplation of those i'^structlons,, on the 19 th ultimo and on the 7th and 8th in^t^jftt,, 
 and to beg you to inform me, witfeput delay,, wher© the seven mpn now are, and wh^t. 
 naeasureg hay« be^n taken by the. United States' Ggvernnjent with regard to them. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (§ig?ied) LtOIi^S., 
 
 F 2 
 
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 Inclosure 3 in No. 10. 
 
 Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, • Department of State, Washington, April 23, 1864. 
 
 RECURRING to your communication of the 19th ultimo respecting the case of 
 Thomas Tulley and six others alleged to have been improperly enlisted in the army of the 
 United States, I have the honour to inclose, in reply, a copy of a communication from the 
 War Department of the 18th instant, and to be, &c. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWARD, 
 
 Inclosure 4 in No. 10. 
 
 Mr. Dana to Mr. Seward. 
 
 Sir, War Department, Wanhington, April \8, \864. 
 
 THE Secretary of War instructs me to transmit to you the inclosed copy of the 
 report of the Adjutant-General relative to the cases of Thomas Tulley, Michael Byrne, 
 James Higgins, Edward Cassidy, Thomas Burke, Michael Moran, and Martin Hogan, 
 alleged tobe British subjects, and to have been improperly enlisted in the United States' 
 artny, which cases were the subject of the communication of the 19th ultimo from Lord 
 Lyons, a copy of which accompanied your letter of the 27th of same month. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) C. A. DAI^A, Assistant Secretary of War. 
 
 Inclosure 5 in No. 10. 
 Report. 
 
 Adjutant' General's Office, Washington, April 14, 1864. 
 
 THE Secretary of War refers communications of Lord Lyons in relation to Thomas 
 Tulley, Michael Bjnrne, James Higgins, Edward Cassidy, Thomas 15urke, Michael Moran, 
 and Martin Hogan, alleged British subjects, improperly enlisted in the United States' 
 army. 
 
 From the Report of the Board of Enrolment, Portland, Maine, it appears that these 
 men had but just landed from an emigrant vessel, and expressed a desire to enlist, and 
 that when enlisted, examined, and mustered, they were all sober. That some were refused 
 examination while intoxicated, and were subsequently, when sober, presented and passed. 
 That they voluntarily enlisted, and never objected to the performance of any duty assigned 
 them. The examination appears to have been most impartial and thorough, and from 
 the facts adduced, there seems no doubt that they were legally enlisted and held to service, 
 and their discharge is therefore not recommended. 
 
 (Signed) SAMUEL BRECK, Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 Inclosure 6 in ^o. 10. 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward, 
 
 Sir, Washington, April 25, 1864. 
 
 A FEW hours after I addressed to you my note of the day before yesterday's date 
 respecting the enHstment of the seven Irish passengers who arrived at Portland in the 
 packet "Nova Scotian," I had the honour to receive your note of the same day on the 
 subject. 
 
 In the letter from the War Department, a copy of which is appended to your note, 
 it is stated that it appears from a Report of the Board of Enrolment at Portland, that these 
 men had but just landed from an emigrant vessel and expressed a desire to enUst ; that 
 when enUsted, examined, and mustered, they were all sober, and that they voluntarily 
 enUsted, and never objected to the performance of any duty assigned them. It is added 
 that, from the facts adduced, there seems no doubt that they were legally enlisted, and 
 held to service, and that, therefore, their discharge is not recommended. 
 
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 The Report itself does not accompany your note, but I have received a copy of If,, 
 and copies of the affidavits annexed to it, from Her Majestp's Consul at Portland, who* 
 was courteously invited to be present at the investigation, and who bears testimony to the 
 good faith of the members of the Board by whom it was conducted and to their earnest 
 endeavour to obtain full and trustworthy evidence. 
 
 I have read with great attention the report and the affidavits, but I confess that they 
 do not appear to me to show conclusively that the seven men were fairly dealt with on their 
 arrival at Portland, or that their enlistment was truly voluntarily. I desire, therefore, ta- 
 suggest that further inquiry should be made on these points. 
 
 I will, in the first place, ask you to give your attention to the observations contained^ 
 in the inclosed copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Portland, and in the- 
 second place beg you to consider that the investigation was conducted in the absence of the 
 men themselves, and without any communication with them. 1 would propose that they 
 should be themselves examined, and be affiarded an opportunity of refuting the evidence 
 given in contradiction to their original statement to Her Majesty's Consul. 
 
 You will reniember that these men landed at Portland on the 9th of last month, and 
 that two days afterwards they addressed a letter to Her Majesty's Consul at that place, 
 stating that they had been put into prison ; that they had been unable to gain their 
 liberation or food unless they enrolled themselves in the American service, and that they 
 had ultimately enrolled themselves through mere compulsion or privation. This statement 
 is no doubt contradicted in essential particulars by the evidence of the policeman and the 
 recruiting agents ; but even if this evidence be admitted to be perfectly impartial, it does 
 not, in my opinion, show conclusively that there was no foundation for the story told by 
 the men. On the contrary, in some points it confirms their story, and it ''-rtainly seems 
 to me to leave at least so much doubt whether the men were entirely free agents, and 
 knew that they were entirely free agents, as to render it proper that they should be 
 themselves heard on the subject. 
 
 I abstain from expressing here any positive opinion on the merits of the case ; but I 
 think that I have good grounds for asking for a further investigation, and for earnestly 
 requesting that the men may not be exposed to meet the enemy of the United States in 
 the field, until the lawfulness of their enlistment is more satisfactorily proved. 
 
 I am the more urgent in the- matter because (as I had the honour to inform you in my 
 note of the 8th instant) five of the men have already been sent to the army of the Potomac, 
 and one of them, Thomas TuUey, who is at present in the Finley Hospital in this city, is 
 liable to be sent at any nnoment to join that anny in the field. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 ' Inclosure 7 in No. 10. 
 Thomas Tulley to Lord Lyons. 
 
 United States' Sanitary Commission, 5th Ward, Finley Hospital, 
 My Lord, Washington, April 23, 1864. 
 
 WITH great submission and respect, I beg to bring myself again under your 
 Lordship's notice, fully aware of the interest you have taken in ray and companions' affair, 
 subsequent to my presenting my petition. I perceived, in the Boston " Pilot " of the 1 6th 
 instant, an article taken from the Portland " Argus," informing the public that the Board 
 of Enrolment came to the conclusion that we received food and drink in prison, and that 
 some of us enlisted of free will. Such assertions are, my Lord, untruthful, as my petition 
 contains the real facts, and which I can prove on oath, and compel the parties who inter- 
 fered with me to admit if legally investigated. To such article I sent a contradiction, but 
 my letter has not yet appeared. 
 
 In the " New York Herald" of the 2 1st instant, I have seen the interest Sir A. Agnew 
 (through your Lordship's kind interference) has taken in the matter ; and may I therefore 
 hope your Lordship will have the entrapped men of Portland, seven in number, and not 
 forty-seven as stated in the " Herald," as being the number stated by Sir A. in Parliament 
 to have been kidnapped in Portland. 
 
 My Lord, it is a sad thing to compel a man to soldier under such circumstances. The 
 State acted contrary to every law, as why not take us before a magistrate if we broke the 
 laws of America ; but evidently they imprisoned us for the purpose of compelling our 
 enlistment. 
 
Hoping your Lordship will excuse my pVesiamption, andi trusting my perseverance will 
 meet with success, I have, &g, 
 
 (Sdgned) THOMAS TXJLLEY. 
 
 P.S. — I expect every day to be sent to. the army unless something is done for my 
 liberation. 
 
 T. T. 
 
 Inelosure. 8 in JS?o,. 10. 
 liord iiyms to T^homcks Tf i 
 
 Sir, Ff^fi^iagfQK^ April 25, 1864, 
 
 I SHALL be glad if you will call at the Legeitieja. tq-^orrqw,, Tuesday. If you 
 'Cannojt, come to-morrow, I. beg you to oome the next day,; or t^. day aftey that,. About 
 It q'cIocIj in the forenoon is the tiinewhicji would suit we, besit, but you cau come earlier 
 or later in the day if the hospital rggulations interfere with your coming qrf; I L Pray le.t 
 me know that you have received this letter ; and, if there is any obataQle to your comij^ 
 
 here again^, inform me at once. 
 
 I aro,S?Cv 
 (Signed.) LJOm. 
 
 No> 11. 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — (Received. Mttjt Id.) 
 
 My Lfii^di, Wa^hmgton, May % 1864. 
 
 THE number of British subjects who are s«Ev4ng in the United States' airmy aiad 
 navy is very considerable ; and complaints are coastaittt]^ made, to me of tiMg.pBactiees by 
 which the enlistment of many of them, has been efotgd, I may say,, indeed,, that the 
 most laborious and most painful and unsatisfactory part of the duties which have devolved 
 upon this Jbegatianj. since the breaking out of the civil war, is c^nnectexi with these 
 complaints. No pains have been sipared by Hey Ma^©|ty^s Consuls and myself in invessMr 
 gating them, an.dj every effdrt has been made by us to obtain redress for those which have 
 appeareA to be well fpinded. In few cases, however, have our efforts produced any 
 -satisfactory results. 
 
 In point of form, inde^ there is. little tacamplain-oL The remonstrances addressed 
 by me to the Secretary of State are duly acknowledged and transmitted to the War or the 
 Navy Department. The Departm.ei^ orders an inves^ation. The recruiting agents or 
 other officers contradict the statements made by the complainants, and affirm that the 
 enlistments were voluntary, lawfol, and. correct in all, particulars. I do my best to elicit 
 the truth, and to obtain evidence. A controversial correspondence between the United 
 - States' CcQYeswanienfc and? me ensues. From the nature of the case there can seldom be 
 any evidence, except that of the recruiting officers, on one side, and the men enlisted, an 
 the other ;. and? ejpmmoaly the United gates' Government gives credence by pi-eference to 
 its own offioesre^ and; retains the recruits^ in its service. 
 
 Nor indeed is it by any means easy for me to., satisfy myself as to the justness of tth@ 
 individual complaints that come before me. There is no dftubt that some of the persoBa 
 who apply to m,e are not entitled, to British protection, that some, of them have enli^ed 
 voluntarily, thafe some have even been in collusion with recruiting agents, and have enlisted 
 Twith the intention of securing the bounties^, andttben obHaiaingtheir discharge by addressing 
 this Legation as British subjects. To distinguish between oases of this kind, and; those in 
 which the complaints are well-founded, is difficult in individual instanres ; and it is s^ill 
 more difficult to obtain evidence sufficiently conclusive to induce the United States' 
 authorities to release a recruit. But that fraud, violence, and, all kinds of villany have 
 been very generally resoj?ted to by brokers and recruiting agents, in order to posssfisa 
 themselves of the immense bounties given by the 5'ederal . and State Governments fon 
 recruits, is absolutely certain. 
 
 It is particularly in the city of New York that these iniquitous practices have been 
 prevalent. I have the honour to transmit herewith to your Lordship, a copy, taken from 
 a newspaper, of a report made by Major-Genefal Dix, the Military Commandant at Ness 
 York, to the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate of the State, to which- are 
 
a; 
 
 appended extracts from a report mMe by ithe 6i«iTe*al to the Secretary of War. I will 
 give some of the statements of the General in his own words : — 
 
 " Almost every 'ftfl^gi^feble form of otitrage atad*id^cBptJ6n baS been developed in the 
 cases in which Mr. Clapp was Agent for the payment of bounties. ... In some cases 
 boys have been seduced from their homes to secure "their enlistment. In others men have 
 been d^rugged, and enlisted while unconscious. . . •. In short there is no artifice or 
 fi?aud which has not been resorted to in carrying out this system of pillage. . . . Old 
 men and boys, and persons labouring under incurable disetees, were in numerous instances 
 thrust into the service under this system of public plunder, alike frauduletit to the 
 recruits and the Government. . . . The enormous sum of 400,000 dollars has been 
 plundered by the brokers. . . . The outrages practised on recruits are too unjust to 
 be borne, and in some cases too loathsome to be detailed. Boys have been seduced from 
 their families, drugged, and then enlisted. Two were so sadly drugged that they died— one 
 on his arrival at Rikers Island, and the other on the following day." 
 
 I have moreover the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy taken from a 
 newspaper,- of a lettei- addressed to General Dix by General Wistar. The following are 
 extracts from it : — 
 
 "There seems to be little doubt that many— in fact, I think I am justified in saying 
 the most-^of these unfortunate men were either deceived or kidnapped, or both, in the most 
 scandalous and inhuman manner in New York City, where they were drugged and carried 
 off to New Hampshire and 'Connecticut, mustered in, and uniformed before their 
 consciousness was fully restored. ..." Nearly all are fbreigaers, mostly sailors, both 
 ignorant of and indifferent to the objects of the war in which they thus suddenly find 
 ttiemselves involved. . . . Two men were shot here this morning for desertion, and 
 over thirty more are "now awaiting trial or execution." 
 
 General Dix eoneludes his report by saying that stringent measures have been adopted, 
 and that this whole system of fraudulent recruiting is nearly broken up, bflrt that a great 
 wrong has been done to individuals in the service, and that it is impossible wholly to 
 repair it. 
 
 Sufficient time has not elapsed to show whether the fraudulent system of recruiting 
 has, in fact, been broken up at New York, so far as the army is concerned, by the measures 
 taken by General Dix. I do not learn that any effectual steps have been taken to put a 
 stop to the practices, similar in their nature and equal in their iniquity, which have been 
 resorted to by brokers and crimps at New York to obtain sailors for the United States' 
 nayy. 
 
 I ought, perhaps, to say that in the only two in&tances in which it has come to my 
 knowledge that a British subject has been condemned to death for desertion from the 
 Uaited States' army, I have succeeded in preventihg the execution of the rgentenee. In 
 one case the man was Tiltimately released from arrest, and discharged altogether from the 
 army. In the other, the evidence that the prisoner had been improperly enlisted did not 
 appear to be conclusive, and I was unable to obtain his discharge from the army, but the 
 sentence of death was, nevertheless, commuted to imprisonment. 
 
 I refi-ain, on the present occasion, from transmitting to -your Lor-diship any portion of 
 tke voluminous cOriespoaddnee which Ihave had %ith 'Her Majesty's Consuls and with 
 the United States' 'Government on the cases of individual :British subjects who harve 
 complained of bei^g i«ia[properly enlisted. In justice, however, to Mr. Archibald, Her 
 Majesty^s Consul at New York, in whose district by far the greater number of the eases 
 have oecurred, and on whom ? they have imposed no ordinary amount of labour and 
 aifx^ty> I feel bound to say sit once that the correspondence shows tfeathe has been 
 indefatigable in bis endeavours to rescue Her Majesty's subjects :from 'the villainous, 
 practices of the recruiting agents, 
 
 I have, &€. 
 (Signed) LYOIfS. 
 
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 Inclosure 1 in ISo. 11. 
 
 Extract from the "New Yftvk Times" of April 16, 1864. 
 
 Frauds on Recruits. — The Lafayette Hall Bounty Brokers. — Hawley 
 D. Clapp, recognized as the head and front here of bounty brokers, was arrested and sent 
 to Fort Lafayette, where he yet remains. He addressed some time since an appeal to the 
 Legislature for relief. The matter was referred to the Judiciary Committee, who applied 
 to General Dix, who caused the arrest, for information on the subject. The following is 
 the General's reply : — 
 
 " Jlon. Chas. J. Folder, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. 
 
 " Head-Quarters Department of the East, New York City, 
 "'Dear Sir, '' April U, 1864. 
 
 "Your note of the 9th instant was received to-day, and it affords me pleasure to 
 furnish you with the facts and circumstances attending the arrest and imprisonment of 
 - Hawley D. Clapp. 
 
 " When your note came to hand I was completing a report to the Secretary of War 
 -(a copy of which, with accompanying papers, I inclose), giving a detailed statement of the 
 -atrocious frauds committed upon recruits in this city, aind particularly at Lafayette Hall, 
 -where Mr. Clapp was the principal bounty broker-^one of a class of agents who were 
 brought into existence by the system adopted by the Committee of the Board of Super- 
 visors, for procuring substitutes, whose services were entirely unnecessary, and whose 
 principal vocation, either by their own direct action or through confederates, was to cheat 
 men entering the service out of their bounties. The Committee, when the frauds had 
 become too palpable and too extensive to be borne, obviated the evil, as far as they could, 
 by the adoption of proper precautions, but not until a military order had been issued 
 requiring the full amount of bounty to be paid to the recruit. 
 
 " My report to the Secretary of War enters into a full detail of those transactions, 
 alike disgraceful to those who were concerned in them and to the community in the bosom 
 of which they occurred. Mr. Clapp received from the Committee of the Supervisors the 
 bounties for a large number of recruits (300 dollars for each), who, as shown by testimony 
 satisfactory to me, were cheated out of the greater part of it, by him, or the parties confe- 
 derated with him in the business. As the money was paid into his hands, I consider him 
 responsible for it ; and I have deemed it my duty, whenever a clear case of fraud was made 
 out, to see the soldier redressed, if possible. 
 
 "It is only by the summary process of a military arrest that these fraudulent 
 transactions can be reached. If they are brought into the civil courts,, all remedy is hope- 
 less. The recruits are the only witnesses, and the exigencies of the country will not permit 
 them to be kept from the field. 
 
 "The only alternatives, therefore, were to allow these stupendous frauds to go unre- 
 dressed, to let patriotic men who are offering their lives on the altar of their country be 
 robbed of the provisions which their fellow-citizens have made for their families, and to 
 suffer the plunderers to escape with their ill-gotten gains, or to take, as I have done, 
 some of the principal agents in these frauds into custody, to be held till they make 
 restitution. 
 
 "The amounts of which recruits were defrauded at Lafayette Hall, where and while 
 Mr. Clapp was chief broker, cannot fall short of 400,000 dollars. I have succeeded in 
 recovering about 20,000 dollars, and am not without hopes of adding largely to this 
 amount. 
 
 " I am fully aware of the responsibility I have taken in these cases, and that the 
 exercise of the power of arrest is only warranted by the circumstances in which the 
 country is placed, and the special facts which my report to the Secretary of War 
 discloses. It has been exerted in a few cases only, and with the confident assurance 
 in each, that I should be sustained by the Government and by the public judgment. 
 
 '• Although it is technically true, as Mr. Clapp states in his petition to the Legis- 
 lature, that ' he has not held at any time office under the Government, or had any 
 contracts with the Government' itself, he stood in his capacity as bounty broker in a 
 relation to the military service of which he seems to appreciate neither the scope nor 
 the force. 
 
 "Lafayette Hall, in which his agency was transacted, was occupied for military 
 purposes. It was guarded by sentinels, and the acts for which he was arrested were 
 performed within the lines. It was for all essential purposes a camp, and he was within 
 
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 it, furnished vnth office room, and other conveniences for himself and clerks, and engaged 
 in paying recruits their hounties as chief broker, under an appointment, not directly from 
 the Government, but from General Spinola, the Commanding officer. He was personally 
 engaged in services of a strictly military character, and standing in a much nearer relation 
 to the Government than many classes of camp followers and retainers, who are by act of 
 Congress subject to martial law. My own judgment is strongly inclined to the conclusion 
 that he may be tried by court-martial, and if he has not been brought before one ere this, 
 one chief reason is, that I desired to satisfy myselif by consulting the course of proceedings 
 in analogous cases, that I should not err in holding him to account before such a tribunal 
 for the acts with which he is charged. 
 
 " Almost every imaginable form of outrage and deception has been developed in the 
 cases in which Mr. Clapp was agent for the payment of bounties. Men, both white and 
 coloured, were offered employment as teamsters, wagon-masters and officers' servants, 
 receiving from 20 to 50 dollars as ' pay in advance,' and finding themselves enlisted 
 as private soldiers, while Mr. Clapp received from 300 dollars to 315 dollars in each case. 
 With what confederates the money was divided, he and they only can tell. 
 
 " I have considered it enough that it was received by him, and not paid to the recruits 
 who were entitled to it. In some cases boys have been seduced from their homes to 
 secure their enlistment. In others men have been drugged and enlisted while unconscious. 
 In others they have promised furloughs, and where the full bounty was not paid, they 
 have been told that they would receive the balance as soon as they should arrive at 
 Riker's Island. In short, there is no artifice or fraud which has not been resorted to in 
 carrying out this system of pillage. 
 
 "In one case reported to these head -quarters by Mr. Supervisor Blunt, Mr. Clapp was 
 compelled to make restitution, and his conduct was such that he was not allowed to 
 transact business with the Supervisors in his own name, but continued it in the name of 
 other parties. 
 
 " I feel convinced that no class of men would be likely to take part in these outrages 
 upon our gallant soldiers, or sympathize with the perpetrators, unless they cherished a 
 secret sympathy with those who are endeavouring by force of arms to overthrow and 
 destroy the government of their country. 
 
 " Mr. Clapp has been treated since his confinement with a leniency he does not 
 deserve. He has had the same food as the men whom he has defrauded, and is much 
 more comfortably lodged and sheltered. His Counsel has been permitted to hold two 
 private interviews with him, a privilege not usually granted to inmates of Fort Lafayette. 
 I have indulged the hope that he would consent to disclose the names of others more 
 prominent than himself, who are believed to have participated in his fraudulent gains. He 
 is not held for this purpose alone, but with the further view to compel complete restitution 
 to those he has wronged, when the extent of the frauds in which he is implicated shall be 
 ascertained, and also punished, and also for trial and punishment if it shall be decided that 
 he is amenable to a military court. It has afforded me pleasure to comply with the request 
 of your Committee, and I earnestly hope that the disclosures I have made may lead to 
 some legislative provisions to secure to recuits the bounties intended to be paid to them. 
 I take the liberty of stating that in some instances the authorities of towns have of the 
 300 dollars raised for bounties, voted 100 dollars to the recruit, and 200 dollars to the 
 broker or runner ; a temptation to cupidity which has led to every species of unfairness, 
 deception, and fraud. it^^^^ t^^^ 
 
 " I am satisfied that the Legislature could never have anticipated so gross a wrong to 
 recruits, to taxpayers, and the public service, and that suitable restraints will be imposed 
 upon local authorities, 'Z^Z^. 
 
 " I have the honour also to transmit herewith a certified copy of the order under 
 which Mr. Clapp was sent to Fort Lafayette by Brigadier-Generel Stannard, commanding 
 New York City and harbour. 
 
 " I am, &c. 
 (Signed) «JNO. A. DIX, Major-GeneraV 
 
 Report of General Dins to the Secretary of War. 
 (Extract.) 
 
 "When I was informed that recruits were defrauded of their bounties at Lafayette 
 Hall, I sent for General Spinola^ and communicated to him the information I had received. 
 He denied the ti-uth of the statements, and assured me that the recruiting regulations 
 were fully complied with ; that no man was enlisted without being fully apprised of the 
 nature of the service in which he was engaging ; that no recruit was defrauded of his 
 
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 bounty ; and that where a less sum than that allowed by the county was paid, it was always 
 
 by voluntary and amicable agreement. 
 
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 " Old men and boys, and persons labouring under incurable diseases, were in numerous 
 instances thrust into the service under this system of public plunder, alike fraudulent to 
 the recruits and the Government. 
 
 " I sent for General Spinola several times, and always received from him the assurance 
 that all was fairly conducted by the officers at Lafayette Hall. The evidence to the 
 contrary became so conclusive that I directed Lieutenant Cole and the contract surgeon, 
 Dr. Kerrigan, to be arrested. They have since been tried ; the former dismissed the service, 
 and the latter, who holds no mihtary commission, disqualified for future employment. 
 
 " In my interviews with General Spinola I objected to the whole system of brokerage, 
 as calculated rather to prevent rather than promote enlistments. 
 
 " General Spinola defended the system of brokerage, and said that without it ' the 
 Government could get no recruits.' The result has been precisely the reverse. The 
 bounty in the payment of which these frauds have been committed is that paid by the 
 city of New York, amounting to 300 dollars per man, with a fee of 15 dollars per man to 
 the person presenting the recruit. About 2,000 men were recruited by General Spinola. 
 The averjige amount of bounty paid to them, as he stated in an explanation volunteered to 
 Major Halpine, was about 100 dollars per man. The other 200 dollars per man has been 
 plundered by the brokers and their coadjutors. 'Thus 200,000 dollars have been paid to 
 the recruits, and the enormous sum of 400,000 dollars have been plundered by the brokers. 
 It is one of the most stupendous frauds ever committed in this country; it has gone for 
 the most part into the hands of pubUc plunderers, some of whom are of notoriously 
 infamous character, and one of whom is known to be a convict who has been an inmate 
 of the State prison. 
 
 "Among the men engaged in these frauds was Theodore Allen, of whom the Superin- 
 tendent of Police says that his reputation with the force is that of a thief. He swears that 
 he was well knows to Mr. Brennan, the Comptroller, and the Supervisors, and that, 
 through the friendship of the former, and the approval of the Supervisors, enlistment blanks, 
 countersigned by one of the Supervisors' Committee, were given by the Superintendent 
 in person to him. This man may be regarded in his leading characteristics, portrayed by 
 the Superintendent of Police, as a type of the group of the depredators engaged in plunder- 
 ing recruits. 
 
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 " I have recovered and paid over to parties. thus defrauded about 20,000 dollars, and 
 hope to secure a much larger amount. 
 
 " The outrages practised on recruits are too unjust to be borne, and in some cases 
 too loathsome to be detailed. Bojs have been seduced from their families, drugged, and 
 then enlisted. Two were so sadly drugged that they died ; one on his arrival at Hiker's 
 Island, and the other the following day. ■ 
 
 " Stringent measures have been adopted, and this whole system of fraudulent recruiting 
 is nearly broken up ; but a great wrong has been done to individuals in the service, and it 
 iS impossible wholly to repair it." 
 
 Inclosure 2 in No. 11. 
 
 Extract from the "New York Herald" of April 20, 1864. 
 
 Impoetant Letter from General Wistar. — Victims of the Bounty Swindlers 
 
 DESERTING IN LaRGE NuMBERS. — EviLS OF THE PLUNDERING SYSTEM ON OUR ArMIES 
 
 IN THE Field, &c. 
 
 Head-Quarters, United States' Forces, Yorktown, 
 General, Virginia, April 15, 1864. 
 
 AN extended spirit of desertion prevailing among the recruits recently received from 
 the North, in some of the regiments in my command, has led me to make some inquiries 
 resulting in apparently well-authenticated information, which I beg respectfully to 
 communicate to you .in this unofficial manner, deeming it required by humanity, no less 
 than by our common desire to benefit the service. 
 
 There seems to be Httle doubt that many, in fact 1 think I am justified in saying 
 the most, of these unfortunate men were either deceived or kidnapped, or both, in the 
 most scandalous and inhuman manner, in New York city, where they were drugged and 
 
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 carried off to New Hampshire and Connecticut, mustered in and uniformed before their 
 consciousness was fully restored. 
 
 Even their bounty was obtained by the parties who were instrumental in these 
 nefarious transactions, and the poor wretches find themselves, on returning to their senses, 
 mustered soldiers, without any pecuniary benefit. Nearly all are foreigners, mostly 
 sailors, both ignorant of and indifferent to the objects of the war in which they thus 
 suddenly find themselves involved. 
 
 _ Two men were shot here this morning for desertion, and over thirty more are now 
 awaiting trial or execution. 
 
 These examples are essential, as we all understand ; but it occurred to me, General, 
 that you would pardon me for thus calling your attention to the greater crime committed 
 in New York, of kidnapping these men into positions where, to their ignorance, desertion 
 must seem like a vindication of their own rights and liberty. 
 
 Believe me, &c. 
 
 To Major-General John A. Dix, New York City. 
 
 (Signed) J. J. WISTAR. 
 
 No. 12. 
 Earl Russell to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, _ Foreign Office, May 19, 1864. 
 
 YOU will endeavour to impress on Mr. Seward in friendly communication the duty of 
 putting an end to the imprisonment of British subjects, whose sole offence consists in then: 
 being on board vessels which have attempted to run the blockade. You will point out to 
 Mr. Seward that while the Government of Great Britain perform their obligations as a 
 neutral to a belligerent, the Government of the United States are bound to perform their 
 corresponding obligations as a belligerent towards a neutral. 
 
 The practice of drugging men in order to procure their services in the United States' 
 army and navy is an abuse of the most odious description, and in the case of the British 
 subjects in question justifies the strongest remonstrances. 
 
 But I trust that Mr. Seward, unwilUng to excite feelings of just indignation in this 
 country, will put an end to both the abuses to which I have instructed you thus to call 
 
 his attention. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) RUSSELL. 
 
 No. 13. 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — (Received May 24.) 
 
 My Lord, Washington, May 9, 1864. 
 
 WITH reference to my despatch of the 25th ultimo, and to the previous corre- 
 spondence on the subject of the Irish passengers by the packet " Nova Scotian " who 
 were enlisted in the United States' army, I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship 
 herewith copies of further papers relating to the same subject. 
 
 Your Lordship wiU perceive that Mr. Seward has communicated to me information 
 from the War Department, to the effect that the cases of Thomas TuUey and his five 
 companions are now in process of investigation, and that a prominent ofiicer implicated 
 in the alleged improper enlistments will be brought to trial. 
 
 I have written to Mr. Seward to repeat the expression of my hope that the men 
 themselves will be heard in their own cause, and that due weight will be given to 
 their testimony. I have also reiterated my urgent request that measures may be taken 
 to remove" those of the men who had been sent to the army of the Potomac from the scene 
 of hostilities. 
 
 TuUey has been twice at the Legation ; the second time he was sent by the United 
 States' authorities in consequence of an application from me. Among the inclosures in 
 this despatch is a statement made by him, which distinctly contradicts in many impor- 
 tant particulars the evidence of the policemen and recruiting agents at Portland. He 
 has now been removed to a hospital further north. I did not receive the letter in 
 which he informed me that he was about to be removed, in time to interpose with 
 the United States' authorities in order to keep him here. I should however have had 
 
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 no desire to do so. On the contrary, I am glad that he should be sent further from 
 the theatre of war, and thus be less likely to be suddenly placed in the ranks of the army 
 
 in the field. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 1 in No. 13. 
 
 Consul Lousada to Lord Lyons. 
 My Lord, Boston, April 18, 1864. 
 
 1 HAVE the honour to acknowledge your Lordship's despatch of the 7th instant, and 
 to report that James Traynor, one of the Irishmen brought over by Finney, presented 
 himself at the office to-day in military costume, and stated that he was drunk when he 
 enlisted, and wanted me to assist him in obtaining his release- He had received thirty 
 dollars, and believed he was to have more when the company left for active service. 
 
 His Company is Letter I, 59th Massachusetts, and I understand that the regiment goes 
 to Annapolis on Thursday. 
 
 In answer to my questions, he said that neither himself nor his comrades had any idea 
 of enlisting when they entrusted themselves to Finney, but really thought they were coming 
 
 to work here on high wages. 
 
 T ii fl vp t^o 
 
 (Signed) ' F.' LOUSADA. 
 
 Inclosure 2 in No. 13. 
 ■ Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 
 Sir, Washington, April 27, 1864. 
 
 WITH reference to my note of the 22nd instant, I have the honour to call your 
 attention to the inclosed copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Boston reporting 
 a statement made by James Traynor, one of the Irishmen brought over to this country in 
 the steamer " Nova Scotian," respecting the circumstances under which he enlisted in the 
 United States' military service. 
 
 I beg you to cause this case to be iiivestigated in order that the man may be discharged, 
 if it shall appear that he did not enlist of his own free will, and with a full knowledge of what 
 he was doing. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 3 in No. 13. 
 
 Mr. Seivard to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Department of State, Washington, April 30, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 27th instant, 
 relating to James Traynor, a passenger to this country by the " Nova Scotian," and who is 
 represented to have been improperly enlisted in the military service. In reply I have the 
 honour to inform your Lordship that I have referred the case to the War Department. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 
 
 Inclosure i in No. 13. 
 Thomas Tulley to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, 5th Ward, Finley Hospital. Washington, April 26, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication bearing the 
 date of the 24th instant, and I sincerely regret that it is not in my power to go to the 
 Embassy this day, but the doctor in charge of my ward has promised me a pass to-morrow • 
 but should anything prevent my going there, I will be with your Lordship the following 
 day, please God, and as soon as I can after 11 o'clock a.m. 
 
 Wishing your Lordship every happiness, I have, &c. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS TULLEY. 
 
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 Inclosure 5 in No. 13. 
 
 Thomas Tulley to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, 5th Ward, Finley Hospital, Washington, April 27, 1864. 
 
 I HAD the honour of informing j'ou yesterday, by letter, that I would be with you 
 this day or to-morrow, but my anticipations of such a liberty are destroyed, as the doctor 
 this morning refused me permission to visit your residence, and has even taken my clothes 
 away from me, as he alleges, for a breach of military regulations. Now, my Lord, this 
 again operates against my attempt at freedom from the institution I have been compelled 
 to become a member of. As my rejoicement was intense on receiving your letter, and 
 now, my Lord, I am prevented from availing myself of the honour of an interview with 
 your Lordship, my mind urges me to speak more vindictively, but refrain from doing so 
 through respect for your Lordship, as Kepresentative of the country where true and real 
 liberty is only to be found. 
 
 Under the circumstances, I hope my non-attendance will not operate against me, and 
 that, if necessary, you get an order from some Government official for my appearance 
 before you, and if you do not require me, I beseech your Lordship to intimate to me your 
 Lordship's opinion of the matter. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) THOMAS TULLEY. 
 
 P.S. — Pursuant to your Lordship's injunctions I would have written you thus on 
 receipt of your letter, were it not for the promise made by an American officer, which he 
 subsequently deviated from. 
 
 I fear they will send me from here immediately if they suspect my movements. 
 
 Inclosure 6 in Ko. 13. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 
 Sir, . Washington, April 27, 1864. 
 
 WITH reference to my note of the 25th instant, respecting Thomas Tulley, a British 
 subject, now an inmate of the Finley Hospital, Washington, I have the honour to state 
 that, as I wish to communicate with this person, I should be much obliged if directions 
 could be given either that he may be sent to this Legation from the hospital to speak to 
 me, or that a member of the Legation may be admitted to visit him, as may be deemed 
 most convenient. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYOKS. 
 
 Inclosure 7 in ^o. 13. 
 Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Department of State, Washington, April 27, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your notes of the respective 
 dates of the 22nd, 23rd, and 25th instant, relative to the cases of Thomas TuUey and 
 six other persons, alleged to be British subjects, and to have been improperly enlisted in 
 the army of the United States ; and, in reply, to inform your Lordship that the matter has 
 again been submitted to the Secretary of War with a view to a re-examination. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWAED. 
 
 Inclosure 8 in ISo. 13. 
 Statement of Thomas Tulley. 
 
 Collins' Evidence. — I told Collins I would enlist if let out of prison; but I said so 
 thinking I would get my liberty, although I had no intention of it. On such assertion I 
 was permitted to leave my cell, but on going out I was presented the enlistment papers 
 by the officers of the prison, but which I refused to sign, when 1 was again locked-up. 
 
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 When I was let out the second time Collins was ordered to bring me back unless, I 
 enlisted, and that, in fact, he was responsible for me. Collins brought me to his office, 
 and without any questions made out my papers, to which I partly again objected, but 
 fearing my cell I signed the papers. TuUey suggested that he would like to see the 
 British Consul ; to which Collins replied, There is no use in your doing so, he (meaning 
 Mr. Murray) is as much an American as any man in Portland. This occurred either in 
 my cell or on my way to the recruiting depot, and previous to my enlistment. 
 
 Respecting Byrne, his desire for joining the United States' army was principally to 
 share the same fate as TuUey and Higgins. 
 
 Had the police not been watching TuUey and his companions, he would have made 
 his escape to the British Consul. 
 
 Harrison Cole, Police Officer. — This man states falsely when he says that on the 
 morning of the 10th he gave Tulley, &c., crackers, as he did no such thing, although they 
 were frequently demanded, or something in the shape of food, which was denied. Probably 
 I am the person referred to as having been released, and doing my utmost to coerce the 
 others to enlist. If so, such is false, as I was released and locked up again, and instead 
 of coercing them I did my endeavours to prevent them. 
 
 No pohce officer told us going out of prison with Collins that we could do as we 
 choose ; but, on the contrary, one in authority told Collins to bring us back unless we 
 enlisted. 
 
 James Berriclc — This man swears he served us with food, which is false, as he did not 
 give Tulley or any of his companions five Cor any) crackers at any time, but he gave them 
 some water after their lungs had been strained shouting for it. 
 
 On the night of the 9th, Tulley might have expressed himself as stated, but he 
 positively denies having uttered such words, or expressed himself in the manner sworn to 
 on his becoming sober next morning, 1 0th instant, with regard to his fighting for North or 
 South, 
 
 Alonzo Wenhvorth. — It is not true as stated, in affidavit that we received crackers, nor 
 is it true what he told us that we could go where we choose ; on the contrary, this is, I think, 
 the person who told Collins unless we enlisted we were to be brought back to cells. 
 
 William Foster. — Everything stated in this affidavit respecting Tulley, who was in 
 cell No. 5, is false, as he never had such a discourse with any policeman, although some- 
 thing similar might have occurred in TuUey's insobriety. 
 
 Board of Enrolment. — Their belief in our sobriety when enlisting is correct. We 
 enlisted to escape starvation, not voluntarily. 
 
 As far as I have written about myself Byrne and Higgins I can support on oath ; 
 but as far as I am concerned respecting Moran, Cassidy, and Burke, I know no more than 
 that they were imprisoned with me, went out of prison before I did, and became soldiers 
 under the circumstances which compelled myself, as I believe^ 
 
 The man Hogan was at his liberty, but when I saw him brought in as a soldier he 
 was raging with drink, but whether he received the drink before or after his enlistment I 
 don't know. 
 
 Notwithstanding all the affidavits made affirming that food was supplied, and that no 
 compulsion was in question, Tulley, Higgins, and Byrne can make an affidavit denying 
 the entire. 
 
 April 29, 1864. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS TULLEY, 20th Maine Regiment, 
 
 At present at No. 5 Ward, Finley Hospital, Washington. 
 
 Inclosure 9 in No. 13. 
 
 Michael Byrne and four others to Lord Lyons, 
 
 My Lord, Rappahannock Station, April 26, 1864. 
 
 I WRITE to you in hopes of your seeking after me and my comrades who have been 
 villainously kidnapped into the United States' army. We landed on the 9th day of March 
 and we were all welcomed to this country, and told us all we were a fine lot of men, and 
 some of the agents represented tbamsfiives as Irishmen, and brought some of us to a 
 public-house, and said to drink plenty at their expense, as they knew that we had no 
 mpney, and that they expected us over a day or two sooner, but to never mind that — they 
 should be as friends to us all, so we did drink a little. But after the second drink of the 
 liquor, we all thought that the house was turning upside down ; so we knew no more until 
 we all were in the police-house in Portland, and in some part of the evening some of those 
 agents came to us, and asked if we would join the army, and we one and all told them that 
 
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 we would not do any such thing. So next morning they came to us again and wanted 
 
 us to enlist, and we told them we would not, and also the police said we would have to 
 
 stop for sixty dajis if we would not enlist, and we said to let us go before the magistrate 
 
 or any of the authorities in the town, and the police said we would not be brought before 
 
 no one, and we should have to stop where we were, if not to enlist. We asked for a drink 
 
 of water, and they told us likewise that neither a drink nor nothing to eat we would be 
 
 allowed to get for the sixty days. So it is for a drink of water and threatened to be 
 
 starved, that we had to sign our names, but then refused to go when we got a drink of 
 
 water, but they told us if we refused to do what they compelled us to do, that they wbuld 
 
 blow out our brains ; so we said if we were in a strange country that we would get a little 
 
 fair play, and they said a man's life would be taken, and for 23 dollars be let free, so that 
 
 frightened us all. The doctor would not pass any of us. So we were sent willing or not. 
 
 I refused to take 1 73 dollars, and I came away from Portland, and I got none of it as yet, 
 
 and as for that or any of the others I don't want it at all. I and my comrades wants is 
 
 our liberty. My Lord, that man Finney came to Berry camp, Portland, and maybe 
 
 stopped from us 100 dollars for kidnapping us to this country. And, my Lord, if that is 
 
 not plain to be seeing that this Government sent this Finney to Ireland to kidnap us to 
 
 America. For which I hope the English Government will take it up. We have served in 
 
 India and all Her Majesty's stations on foreign places, and I hope they may want us again 
 
 in a just cause, as this is. And, my Lord, I am going to write to the War Department of 
 
 England, and to state the whole case. And also Mr. Murray, the English Consul, got 
 
 100 dollars from Colonel Murrell of the 17th Maine Volunteer regiment, commanding 
 
 Camp at Berry, Portland. From Thomas Burk, 20th Western (?) Virginia regiment, and 
 
 when he wrote to Mr. Murray about it and about the bounty-money, he would not send a 
 
 word in answer. So our real opinion is that he is bribed by the people of Portland, and 
 
 the War Department and the English Crown shall know of all this. 
 
 The men that came with us from Dublin and went to Boston and snapped up by the 
 enlisting agents was discharged by thie people, and the British Consul of Boston by looking 
 after them. So my Lord, we do now appeal to you for to get us our liberty and to go home 
 again to our wives and family that is expecting us to do something for them. Bat when 
 we were robbed out of all we had, what could we do, my Lord ? We do humbly beg of 
 you to send a letter to us as soon as possible, and seek after our rights. 
 
 "We are &c. 
 (Signed) ' MICHAEL BYRNE, 
 
 THOMAS BURKE, 
 
 EDWARD CASSIDY, 
 
 JAMES HIGGINS, 
 
 MICHAEL HORAN, 
 D Company 20th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Rappahannock Station, 
 
 Inclosure 10 in No. 13, 
 Lord Lyons to Michael Byrne and four others. 
 
 Gentlemen, Washington, April 29, IS64. 
 
 IN reply to your- letter which I received this morning, I have to inform you that Her 
 Majesty's Consul at Portland, Maine, did all he could in your behalf, and duly reported 
 the case to me. I have since been in communication with the United States' Government, 
 and am now doing all in my power to have justice done to you. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 11 in No. 13. 
 Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Department of State, Washington, April 30, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 27th instant, 
 relating to Thomas TuUey, an inmate of Finley Hospital, and, in reply, to inform your 
 Lordship that Brigadier- General Martindale has been instructed to send TuUey to Her 
 Majesty's Legation at 12 o'clods meridian on Monday next. 
 
 (Signed) ' WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 
 
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 Inclosure 12 in No. 13. 
 
 Mr. Setvm'd to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lordj'^^.lT:: ^^^^ Department of State, Washington, May i, 1864, 
 
 RECURRING to your notes of the 22nd, 23rd/ and 25th ultimo, which relate to the 
 cases of Thomas Tulley and six other Irishmen, passengers on the steamer " Nova Scotian," 
 who were alleged to have been improperly enlisted into the United States' army, I have 
 the honour to inclose, in reply, a copy of a letter of the .3rd instant, from the War Depart- 
 ment, on the subject, and to be, &c. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 
 
 Inclosure 13 in IsTo. 13. 
 Brigadier-General Canby to Mr. Seward, 
 
 Sir, War Department, Washington, May 3, 1864. 
 
 THE Secretary of War instructs me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 
 12th ultimo, respecting the cases of .Thomas Tulley and six other British subjects, and 
 inviting attention to the copy of two notes of the respective dates of the 22nd and 25th 
 ultimo, from Lord Lyons, and suggesting re-examination of these cases. 
 
 In reply, the Secretary instructs me to advise you that they are now in process of 
 investigation, and that a prominent officer implicated in these alleged improper enlistments 
 will be brought to trial, the result of which will be communicated to you as soon as reported 
 to the Department. 
 
 I ll3iVC &C 
 
 (Signed) ' ED. R. S. CANBY. 
 
 Inclosure 14 in No. 13. 
 
 Thomas Tulley to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, 5th Ward, Finley Hospital, Washington, May 5, 1864. 
 
 "^.^^ I BEG leave most respectfully to inform you that my name has' been sent in to the 
 Medical Department, United States' Army, for transfer to some hospital northwards, but to 
 what place I am not aware of; and we start on to-morrow (Friday). I have been warned 
 so suddenly I could not acquaint you sooner. Should anything interfere which will prevent 
 my going I will inform you ; but if I go, on my arrival at my destination I will again 
 write to your Lordship, unless you wish to detain me in Washington, and which, no doubt, 
 you can should you think it necessary. The other men are in D Company, 20th Maine 
 Regiment. It is a matter of great misfortune to me to be sent away so suddenly, and 
 probably the matter so near investigation ; still I am certain your Lordship will leave 
 nothing undone for my benefit and the other men, all of whom have families in 
 Ireland. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) THOMAS TULLEY. 
 
 Inclosure 15 in No. 13. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 
 Sir, Washington, May 8, 1 864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the note dated the 4th instant, 
 with which you have been so good as to transmit to me a copy of a letter from the War 
 Department, stating that the cases of Thomas Tulley and the six other British subjects 
 who are represented to have been improperly enlisted at Portland are now in process of 
 investigation, and that a prominent officer implicated in these alleged improper enlistments 
 will be brought to trial. 
 
 It would be satisfactory to me to know the name of the place at which the fresh 
 investigation is in progress, and to be informed that my request that the men themselves 
 may be heard in their own cause has been attended to. 
 
 Thomas Tulley has been questioned at this Legation, and he very positively contradicts 
 
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 much of the evidence of the policemen and recruiting agents, and makes statements which 
 confirm my opinion that no satisfactory conclusion respecting the cases can be arrived at, 
 unless his evidence and that of his companions be taken in full and allowed due weight 
 
 I trust also that the cass of Michael Traynor (another of the Irish passengers by the 
 " Nova Scotian "), whose enlistment formed the subject of my note to you of the 27th 
 ultimo, will not be omitted in the investigation. 
 
 I learn that Tulley himself has been transferred from the Finley Hospital to some 
 hospital farther north, and I am desirous of knowing where he now is. I am also 
 anxious to learn what has become of Martin Hogan, whom I have been unable to trace. 
 But most of all I desire to be assured that measures have been taken to give effect to the 
 earnest request which I made that none of these men might be exposed to meet the 
 enemy in the field until the lawfulness cf their enlisting was satisfactorily proved. 
 Five of them, Michael Byrne, James Higgins, Edward Cassidy, Thomas Burke, and 
 Michael Hoi an were so lately as on the 26th of last month serving with the army of the 
 Potomac in Company D of the 20th Regiment of Maine Volunteers. You will easily 
 understand the anxiety with which 1 wait to be informed that they have been removed from 
 the theatre of war, and exempted from actual service pending the investigation of the 
 lawfulness of their enlistment. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYON'S. 
 
 No. 14. 
 
 Earl Russell to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Foreign Office, May 27, 1864. 
 
 HER Majesty's Grovernment have considered, in communication with the Law 
 Advisers of the Crown, your Lordship's despatches of the 14th of March and 19th of April, 
 relative to the case of the Irishmen recently enlisted at Portland and Boston for service in 
 the United States' army; and I have to state to you that it appears to Her Majesty's Grovern- 
 ment to be clear from these papers, and from the reports on the same subject which have 
 been received from Her Majesty's Consuls at those ports, that no doubt can be entertained 
 that the enlistment of these Irishmen was the result of a fraudulent scheme, contrived 
 and executed in disregard of the laws and neutral rights of Great Britain. 
 
 Her Majjesty's Government consider that the men enlisted at Portland were induced, 
 in evident bad faith and under false pretences, to leave their own country for the purpose 
 of obtaining employment which was not really ready for them on their arrival in the 
 United States ; that on landing at Portland they were designedly plied with drink, and 
 that they were then dealt with in a manner which (although it might be the legal conse- 
 quence of their disordered condition) made it natural and almost inevitable that they 
 should easily yield to the persuasions of the recruiting officers, who were on the look-out 
 for them, and who obtained access to them while in confinement, by the aid of the police 
 authorities. 
 
 Her Majesty's Government are of opinion that, notwithstanding the report made by 
 the Provost-Marshal and the Board of Enrolment at Portland, the facts of the case are 
 sufficient to warrant your Lordship in pressing your application to the United States' 
 Government for the discharge of these men. 
 
 As between one Government and another the testimony of Berwick and Bradley, 
 annexed to the report, and very properly referred to by Mr. Consul Murray, ought to 
 suffice for this application. The latter proves that some one (name unknown) carried a 
 large quantity of whiskey to the wharf where the ship lay with the emigrants. It is clear 
 that this man must have been concerned for the recruiting officers, whether they directly 
 sanctioned the particular act or not. The former proves that at the liquor stores there 
 were " weU dressed men " who were " liberal with their money," not drinking themselves, 
 hut supplying drink to these unfortunate men, and who requested the police to aid them 
 in enlisting the men, and giving thein drink. Her Majesty's Government consider that 
 upon this evidence and upon the general circumstances of the case, your Lordship might 
 reasonably expect to obtain the release of these men. 
 
 The case of the men landed from the " Nova Scotian " at Portland, and afterwards 
 transferred to Boston, although not similar in its particular circumstances, should be dealt 
 
 with on the same principles. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) RUSSELL. 
 
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 Fo. 15. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — iRecdved Sune 7.) 
 
 My Lord, Washington, May.2Z, 1864. 
 
 SINCE 1 first became acquainted two months ago with the circumstances under which 
 some of the Irish passengers on board the "Nova Scotian " had been enhsted in the United 
 States' army at Portland, I have never ceased to urge the United States' Government to 
 take measures to prevent their being brought into collision with the enemy pending the 
 investigation of the lawfulness of their enlistment. The copies of notes to Mr. Seward 
 which have been inclosed in my despatches to your Lordship will have shown your 
 Lordship how often I have insisted upon this in writing. I have pressed it still 
 oftener and still more urgently in verbal communications. My endeavours have, 
 however, been of no avail. One of the men called at the Legation the day before 
 yesterday. He had been badly wounded in the head, and sent back from the army to 
 a hospital here. Another of the men had, he said, been wounded ; a third was reported 
 to be killed ; three others, when he last saw them, were advancing against the enemy under 
 a heavy musketry fire. 
 
 I went immediately to Mr. Seward, and after teUing him what had occurred, spoke to 
 him with some warmth of the neglect with which my representations had been treated, and 
 begged him to do something at once to remove any of the men who might still be alive 
 from the scene of hostilities. 
 
 Mr. Seward said it was certainly very -uttfertunate that the men should have been 
 wounded, but that he supposed that as they had been formally enhsted in the service 
 of the United States, the presumption was that their enhstment was valid and lawful, 
 and that there could be no complaint against their being made to serve until the contrary 
 was proved. 
 
 I said that considering all we knew of the pradtices which had been employed to 
 obtain recrui'ts for the army, I really thought that in cases which were on the face 
 of them doubtful, it would not be too much to say that the presump*tion was the 
 other way. But however this might be, I must, I said, urge once more my often repeated 
 request. I did not obtain anything more from Mr, Seward than the usual formal assurance 
 that he would communicate my wishes to the War Department. On my return home 1 
 wrote a note to him reiterating my request. 
 
 I have the honour to inclose a copy of a statement taken down in writing from the 
 month of Michael BjTne, the wounded man who came to the Legation, and copies of 
 correspondence with Mr. Seward and Thomas Tulley. 
 
 I hare, &c. 
 tSigied) LYOISfS. 
 
 Inclosure 1 in No. 15. 
 Statement of Michael Byrne. 
 
 British Legation, Wwshkigto'h, May 21, 1864. 
 MICHAEL BYRNE states that he, Thomas Burke, James Higgins, Michael Morafi, 
 Martin Hogan, and Edward Cassidy were sent from Portland to join the 20th Kesgiment of 
 Maine Volunteers at Rappahannock Station on Monday the 14th of March, and that they 
 joined that regiment on the following Frida,y. That on the 1st instant they marched with 
 the regiment to the Wilderness Tavern, and encamped there on the niglffe of the 4i3a. 
 Tha^t they knew they would meet the enemy, but were afraid to make aay objections as 
 tkey were told if they did do so they would have their brains felfefWtt Ottt, That he was 
 wounded On the 5th instant on the right temple by a minie ball, '^tt^ wetit on Sunday 
 the 8th to Fredericksburgh, whence oU Wednesday the llth iastant be was sewt to 
 Carver's Hospital, Washington, where he arrived on the same afternoon, and still is under 
 medical treatment. That he has heard that Michael Moran was killed os the 5th instant 
 at the Wilderness, but does not know it for certain. That Edward "Cas^fiy Was wounded 
 in the right thumb whilst carrying him (Michael Byrne) when wounded ^to tire rea* \ that 
 Cassidy was sent from Fred^ieksbtif gh to the Brick Ho&pital, Was^iittgtow, on Wednesday 
 the llth instant. That he last saw Thomas Burke, James Higgins, and Martin Hogan ofi 
 the 5th of May at tfie Wilderness advancing under a heavy musketry fire, but that since he 
 was -wounded lie has not seen or heard anything of them. 
 
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 laclosure 2 iii Bq. 15. 
 
 Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. 
 
 ^y Vu\,rT^ ., ^. , Department of State, Washington, Mau m, ISiSl. 
 
 1 WAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of youy note of the 8th instaat, in 
 regard to the cases of Thomas TuUey and six other men represented to havft been 
 imppoperly enhsted at Portland, Maine. In reply, I have the honour to inforai your 
 Lordship that I have called the immediate attention of the Secretary of War to the matter, 
 and have commended your wishes to his favourable consideration. 
 
 I have, Sue 
 (Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWAED. 
 
 Inclosure 3 in No. 15. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 
 Sir, Washington, May 21, 1864. 
 
 ALTHOUGH only a few hours have elapsed since I informed you in person at the 
 State Department of the grievous intelKgence wMch B had j^st received respecting some of 
 those Irish passengers by the " Nova Scotian " who were enlisted on their arrival at 
 Portland, I cannot refrain from urging in writing the request which I so earnestly made 
 that measures might be taken without a moment's delay to remove those of them who are 
 still with the army from the danger to which they are hourly exposed. 
 
 Since the 19th of March last 1 have urgently and repeated entreated, both verbally 
 and in writing, that these men might not be exposed to meet the enemy in the field, 
 pending the investigation of the lawfulness of their enUstment. No attention has been 
 paid to my request. One of the men, Michael Byrne, has been wounded in the head ; 
 another, Edward Cassidy, has also been wounded ; a third, Michael Mbran, is reported to 
 have been killed. Byrne and Cassidy have been sent to hospitals at Washington. 
 Thomas Burke, James Higgins, and Martin Hogan, if still alive, are no doubt serving 
 with the regiment in which they were enrolled (the 20th Maine Volunteers) in th© field. 
 
 In the note which I had the honour to receive from you on the 4th instant, I was 
 informed that the cases of these men were in process of investigation, and that a 
 prominent officer implicated in their alleged improper enlistment would be brought to 
 trial. In my answer I expressed my anxiety to be informed that my request that the 
 men had been r^aaoved from the theatre of war, and exempted from actual service pending 
 the investigation, had been complied with. I must again urge this often repi^ted request, 
 and entreat yo« to move the military authorities to give orders, without a moment's delay, 
 that those of the men who are in hospital may not be sent back to the army, and that 
 those who are in the field may be sent to Washington, or some other place of safety, until 
 the doubts respecting the validity of their enlistment are cleared up. 
 
 I have, &c, 
 (Signed) LYON'S. 
 
 Iiujlosure 4 in No. 16. 
 T%Qmas TuUe^ to Itord Lyons. 
 
 Turner's Lane United States' Hospital, PhiladehMa, 
 My Lord, ^3/ 19, 1864. 
 
 I TOOK the liberty of iftforming you on the 5th instant that I was about being sent 
 awav froja, Washington, and as I did not wish to be troubling you with letters, I refrained 
 sincie fro«^ writing ; but as I am growing very uneasy I take the hberty, as from the notice 
 I am taking of things I fear I never will be a participator of your goodness unless 
 something is immediately done for me, as they are sending all the men they can to the 
 armv. Will your Lordship therefore kindly let me know if there is any chance of my being 
 discharged through your kind influence ? As for the other men, I fear something fatal has 
 
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 happened them ere this, as the corps they belong to has been in the hottest of the late 
 battles. My people are in want at home, and the Portland authorities have i 73 dollars 
 of my bounty which I would like to get, but fearing it would interfere with your Lordship's 
 proceedings, I have not applied for it, although I fear I will not have an opportunity of 
 getting either it or my freedom if something is not shortly done. My people in a great 
 measure depend upon assistance from me, and if your Lordship fails in getting my discharge, 
 perhaps you would get me some Government employ by which I could assist them, and 
 arrange so that I would not be sent to the army. I am losing my health daily on account 
 of my uneasy mind at the position I have got into. 
 
 Sincerely praying for your Lordship's health and happiness, and hoping you will 
 condescend to notify to rae how matters stand, I have, &c. 
 
 (Signed) THOMAS TULLEY. 
 
 P.S, — The doctor here to whom I have related my unhappy circumstances has 
 condemned the Portland authorities for their conduct, and the doctor at Washington said 
 he would send me a good distance, so that I would not have an oportunity of seeing your 
 Lordship. 
 
 T. T. 
 
 Inclosure 5 in No. 15. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Thomas Tulley. 
 
 Sir, Washington, May 23, 1864, 
 
 I HAVE received your letter of the 1 9th instant. I have been informed by the 
 United States' Government that a further investigation respecting the enlistment of yourself 
 and your companions is in progress. I am very sorry to say that my endeavours to get 
 your companions removed frdm the field before the opening of the campaign were 
 unsuccessful. Michael Byrne was at this Legation the day before yesterday. He had 
 been sent to hospital here with a wound in his head. Edward Cassidy has also been sent 
 to a hospital here ; he is wounded, but I trust not seriously, 
 
 I cannot recommend you to apply for the remainder of the bounty which would 
 be due to you as a recruit, unless you are prepared to acquiesce in the validity of your 
 enlistment. 
 
 If you should at any time have reason to believe that you are about to be sent back to 
 the army, I beg you to let me know as soon as possible. 
 
 I will do all I can to obtain your discharge, and will write to you again as soon as I 
 am able to give you any information about it. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 No. 16. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — (Received June 12.) 
 
 My Lord, Washington, May 31, 1864. 
 
 WITH reference to my despatch of the 23rd instant, I have the honour to 
 transmit to your Lordship copies' of two notes which I have received from Mr. Seward, 
 respecting Thomas Tulley and the other Irish passengers by the steam-ship "Nova 
 Scotian," who were enlisted in the United States' army at Portland. 
 
 Your Lordship will see that orders have at last been given to remove these men to 
 Portland, at a distance from the theatre of war, and to cause the legality of their 
 enlistment to be again investigated there. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
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 Inclosure 1 in No. 16. 
 
 Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Department of State, Washington, May 26, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 2Jst instant^ 
 in relation to the cases of the Irish passengers by the " Nova Scotian," who were enlisted 
 on their arrival at Portland, and in reply to inform your Lordship that I have invited the 
 immediate attention of the Secretary of War to a copy of your Lordship's note, and have 
 recommended a compliance with the requests contained therein, 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWAED.. 
 
 Inclosure 2 in No. 16. 
 Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Washington, May 31, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to recur to your notes of the 7th, 8th, 22nd, 23rd, and 25th 
 ultimo, and 8th and 21st instant, relative to the cases of Thomas TuUey and six other 
 liish passengers by the "Nova Scotian," and to inclose, for your Lorudhip's information, 
 a copy of a letter of the 25th instant from the Secretary of ^Var, stating that the men 
 have been ordered to Portland, Maine, with a view to a reinvestigation as to the legality 
 of their enlistment in the army of the United States. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 
 
 Inclosure 3 in No. 16. 
 Mr. Stanton to Mr. Seward. 
 
 Sir, War Department, Washington, May 25, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to advise you that orders have been given that Thomas TuUey 
 and the six others, British subjects, alleged in the communications of Lord Lyons,- 
 submitted by you to this Department, to have been improperly enlisted into the military 
 service of the United States, be sent to Portland, Maine, with instructions that their 
 cases be reinvestigated there, it being the point at which the alleged measures for their 
 improper enlistment are stated to have been inaugurated, and where the proof, if any, to 
 that effect, must exist. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) E. STANTON. 
 
 No. 17. 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — {Received June 20.) 
 
 My Lord, Washington, June 6, 1864. 
 
 WITH reference to my despatch of the 31st ultimo, I have the honour to 
 inclose a copy of an order from the War Department, directing that Thomas Tulley, and 
 the other Irish emigrants who were enlisted at Portland shall be sent back to that place 
 in order that a thorough and final investigation of their complaint of having been improperly 
 enlisted may be made. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure in No. 17. 
 
 Special Orders No. 194. 
 
 War Department, Adjutant- General's Office, 
 (Extract.) Wcishington, June 2, 1 864. 
 
 THE following named enlisted men of Company "D," 20th Maine Volunteers, will 
 upon the receipt of this order at the place where they may be serving, be sent to Captain 
 
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 Charles H. Doughty, Provost-MajrshaAi Isir Digteiefc of Maine, at Portland, Maine, in order 
 that a thorough and final investigation of their complaint of having been improperly 
 enlisted may be made at that eity^ 
 
 Th© chief mustering offices of the State of Maine will make a full and tboa-ougfh 
 investigation of this case, and report the result withr fuU particulara to Hm office. 
 
 The depositions of the men themselves will be taken, during such investigation. 
 
 Privates Thomas TuUey, Michael Byrne, James. Higgins, Michael Mptan, Edward 
 Cassidy, Thomas Burke, Martin Hogan. 
 
 The Quartermaster's Departmeat will furnish the necessary transportation. 
 By order of the Secretary of War, 
 
 (Signed) B. D. TOW'i^SiE'SD, Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
 ¥0. 18. 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — (Received July 2.) 
 
 My Lord, WasMhg,t(mr, June 20; 1864. 
 
 WITH reference to my d'espatch of the 6th. instant, and' to my previous 
 despatches respecting the enlistment of Thomas TuUey and the other Irish emigrants who 
 arrived at Portland in the steam-ship " I^Tova Scotian," I have the honour to- trangnait to 
 your Lordship copies of further correspondejice relative to the fresh investiggiion of this 
 sad case, which has been ordered by the United States' Government. 
 
 Theie appeja-rs to be only too much reason to fear that Thomas Burke and Michael 
 Mbran, two of- tftie enlisted men, were kilted while serving in the ranks of the United 
 States' army. 
 
 I have also the honour to inclose a copy of a note which I have addressed to 
 Mr. Seward in pursuance of the- instruction contained in your Lordship's despatch 
 of the 27th ultimo. I have thought, it right in this note to act upon your Lordship's 
 instruction without refei*ence to the new investigation which has been ordered, and 
 to urge my reques.t for the dischar^ge of the men on the merits of the case, as it naw 
 .^stands. 
 
 Ihaye;s&c, 
 
 Inclosure 1 in No. 18. 
 Michael Byrne to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Eord^ General Hospital, Brttttteb&roufh, Vermont-, June- 7, 1864, 
 
 AS soon as the Doctor understood of me that I had any communication to your 
 Lordship's residence, and that I refused to go from Carver's Hospital, the first opportunity 
 was they sent me away, and did not let me know of it till half anho«r before going away, 
 my Lord, so as to prevent me of giving or sending you word of it, so as you might have 
 me retained, until the investigation should be decided upon in our cases at Washingtem, 
 I would not be let stop in PhUadelphia, or in any other placej until I was sent right on to 
 Brattleboro' General Hospital. I also thought I could get to Turner's-Ian© Hospital at 
 Philadelphia to my comrade, that is, Thomas TuUey, but I couM not get any such a chanee 
 as that from them. I hope, my Lord, you shall do all in your- power fOr us, and send us 
 word if our cases was investigated into as yet, for before I would go to my regiment again, 
 I would put an end to my life, because I did not 'list with my consent ; if I had done so, 
 why I should be as good as any other man, and as I did not, why I shall disobey all orders 
 they give me, for the time to comeyand-if thirn|iigk.niy. diiHobfldience that it shall be the 
 cause of me to be brought before a Court-martial, ^there and then I shall call them, nothing 
 but a set of murderers for to go send over taihy-eomitry agents to snap up a lot of men 
 from their wives and families by way of a good ejnployment in Boston, and then as soon 
 as we landed in Portland, to have another lot of agents there to bring us to beer-shops 
 and to drug us, and entrap us to enlist for their armies ; but, my Lord, if death is my 
 fate at their hands, my comrades shall let my country know, of it, and the whole of n^t 
 it was for, and alfeo the Government of England, the banners I have fought under in 
 India and other places, that they and riy countrymen shall seek for satisfaction few- my 
 
b^a,'^d ^ike the iron wMlst tt is iot/and also I do well ktiolv that France w6idd join 
 is it. I Aall net^gpenk no tnOfe aft f rgsewt. 
 
 (Sighed) MICHAEL BYEIfB, 
 
 D Company ) Wth Menimn'^t, Mime VUunteers. 
 
 P.S. — I shall expect a speedy answer at your leisure. Mease not to put my regiment 
 nor company in your letters to me. 
 
 Inclosure 2 in No. 18. 
 -Lord Lyons to Consul Murray. 
 
 Sir, Washington, June 10, 1864. 
 
 AVITH reference to your despatch of the 7th of April last, and to the previous 
 correspondence relative to the enlistment of Thomas TuUey and six other Irish 
 immigrants in the United States' army, I transmit to you a copy of an order from the 
 War Department, directing that these men be sent to Portland, and that a full and 
 thorough investigation of the case be made. This order has been communicated to me 
 by the Secretary of State of the United States. 
 
 You will endeavour to be informed as soon as possible after it takes place of the 
 arrival of any of these men at Portland, and you will put yourself into communication 
 with them, and give them all the advice and assistance you properly can. You will let 
 me know as soon as the men arrive, and you will'make reports to me of the nature and 
 jJtogreSs of the investigaticin of their case, and keep me informed generally of everything - 
 of interest and importance concerning them. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) LYOJ^S.. 
 
 Inclosure 3 in No. 18. 
 Lord Lyons to Michael Byrne, &;c. 
 
 GeHttemeii, Washington, June \0, \ 864. 
 
 T INCLOSE a copy of an order from the War Department, directing that you and' 
 the six men enlisted with you shall be sent to Portland in order that a full and thorough 
 investigation of your cases may be made there. The order has been communicated to 
 me by the Secretary of State of the United States. 
 
 I conclude that in conformity with the terms of it you will be sent to Portland 
 directly, and I beg you to let Her Majesty's Consul there know of your arrival there 
 as s^^n as possibk after it takes place. I have written to him to ask him to look out 
 fsl' you. 
 
 lam, &c. 
 (Signed) LYOifS.. 
 
 ... . — ■ .—...- .». ., 
 
 IneloSure 4 in -No. 18, 
 
 Consul Mufray to Lord Lyons. 
 My Lord, Portland, June 8, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith a copy of a pmited special order, dated' 
 the 2nd instant, isswed by OTder of the Secretary of War at Washington, directing that 
 a thbtdt^ illid final investigation be made by the Provost Marshal at Portland, of the 
 complaint of the seven Irishmen who were enlisted into the 20th Eegimenti'of the Maine 
 Volunteers in March last. A report upon the same formed the subject of my despatch of 
 the 7th of April last. 
 
 The chief mustering officer of the State of Maine, Major Gardiner, is to send a 
 Report to the War Department, and the men in question are to be sent to Portland to 
 have their depositions taken. 
 
 Of the seven men, Moran andTBurke, I understand, were kiUed at the commence- 
 ment of the '*6afflp^gft. Syrne and Cassidy were wounded and are in hospital at 
 WaSttiligtdH. I'uHgy, T hear, did not gO on with Mis regi^ft-eh-t, btit TH^etit to a h^i^tal at 
 Wa^hifiglfeill ; S,rfd H^ihs aud Hogaft are the onJy tw© ieffc wJth their i^im^t. 
 
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 As I presume I shall also be requested to attend the office of the Provost-Marshal 
 during the second investigation, may I request your Lordship the propriety of my being 
 authorized to employ the services of a lawyer on behalf of these men ? The assessor of 
 the Provost Marshal here is a lawyer, and will conduct the case for the Government, and 
 it appears to me that unless the services of a person accustomed to receive and 
 take evidence in these Courts are obtained, the men might be under a considerable 
 disadvantage. 
 
 I am still without further information from the office of the Acting Assistant Provost- 
 Marshal General at Augusta regarding the man Collins, although I have written several 
 letters on the subject, and forwarded fresh evidence of Collins' identity which I received 
 from a Mr. James Murray of l^ova Scotia. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) H. J. MURRAY. 
 
 Inclosure 5 in No. 18. 
 Lord Lyons to Consul Mun ay. 
 
 Sir, Washington, June 11, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE received this morning your despatch of the 8th instant. 
 
 Having written to you yesterday on the order to remove Thomas TuUey and six other 
 Irishman, enlisted at the same time, to Portland, I have only to add, that, in conformity 
 with your suggestion, I authorize you to employ a lawyer on behalf of these men, if it 
 shall be in your opinion proper and advisable to do so. 
 
 Tulley was, when I last heard from him, in the United States' army hospital. Turner's 
 Lane, Philadelphia, and Michael Byrne at the general hospital, Brattleboro', Vermont. 
 I wrote to them to those places yesterday to inform them of the order, and to recommend 
 them to apply to you as soon as they arrived at Portland. I also wrote a letter in the 
 same sense to the other men, directed to the regiment, although I was not without serious 
 apprehension that they might not all be alive to receive it. I am extremely anxious to 
 receive authentic intelligence of the present condition of each of the seven men. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 6 in No. 18. 
 
 Consul Murray to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Portland, June 15, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch of the 
 10th instant, on the subject of the intended re-investigation of the case of Thomas Tulley 
 and the other Irish immigrants who were enlisted into the 20th Maine Regiment in March 
 last. I will faithfully attend to your Lordship's instructions in this affair. 
 
 Michael Byrne, who was removed so the General Hospital at Brattleboro', Vermont, 
 arrived here last night on his way to Augusta with a squad of Maine invalids, but had 
 received no orders regarding this case. He told me that Cassidy was on furlough at 
 Boston, and would be difficult to be met with ; that Tulley was at Turner's Lane Hospital 
 at Philadelphia with erysipelas ; that Burke and Moran being killed, Higgins and Hogan 
 were the only men now with their regiment, if no accident had happened to them. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) H. J. MURRAY. 
 
 Inclosure 7 in No. 1 8. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 
 Sir, Washington, June 10, 1854. 
 
 HER Majesty's Government have considered the Report made by the Provost 
 Marshal and Board of Enrolment, at Portland, on the case of Thomas Tulley, and th© 
 
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 other six Irish immigrants who were enlisted at that place for Service in the United 
 States' Army, as well as the reports of Her Majesty's Consul on the same subject. 
 
 It appears to Her Majesty's Government that no doubt can be entertained that the 
 enlistment of these Irishmen was the result of a fraudulent scheme contrived and 
 executed in disregard of the laws and neutral rights of Great Britain. - 
 
 Her Majesty's Government consider that these men were induced in evident bad 
 faith and under false pretences to leave their own country for the purpose of obtaining 
 employment, which was not really ready for them on their arrival in the United States ; 
 that on landing at Portland they were designedly plied with drink, and that they were 
 then dealt with in a manner which (although it might be the legal consequence of their 
 disordered condition) made it natural and almost inevitable that they should easily yield 
 to the persuasions of the recruiting agents who were on the look-out for them, and who 
 obtained access to them while they were in confinement, by the aid of the police- 
 authorities. 
 
 Her Majesty's Government are accordingly of opinion, that notwithstanding the 
 report of the Provost Marshal and Board of Enrolment, they are bound to press their 
 application to the United States' Government for the discharge of these men. 
 
 It appears to Her Majesty's Government that as between one Government and 
 another, the testimony of Berwick and Bradley, annexed to the report, of itself suffices to 
 warrant this application. The latter proves that some person (name unknown) carried a - 
 large quantity of whiskey to the wharf where the ship lay w'tli the emigrants, and Her 
 Majesty's Government think that it is clear that this person must have been concerned 
 for the recruiting agents, whether those agents directly sanctioned the particular act or ' 
 not. The former proves that at the liquor store there were " well dressed men" who 
 were " liberal with their money," not drinking themselves, but supplying drink to the 
 unfortunate Irishmen, and who requested the police to aid them in enlisting the Irishmen, 
 -and giving them drink. Her Majesty's Government consider that upon this evidence and 
 upon the general circumstances of the case, they may reasonably expect to obtain the 
 release of these men ; and it is accordingly my duty to renew the request for their discharge 
 from the United States' army, which I made by command of Her Majesty's Government, 
 in the note which I had the honour to address to you on the 23rd April last. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 No. 19. 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — (Received July 2.) 
 
 My Lord, Washington, June 20, 1864. 
 
 I SPOKE to Mr. Seward on the 16th instant in the sense of your Lordship's 
 despatch of the 19th May, respecting the imprisonment of British subjects captured 
 on board neutral vessels, and the practice of drugging men and entrapping them into the 
 United States' naval and military service. 
 
 I said to Mr. Seward that your Lordship had desired me to impress on hina in friendly 
 communication the duty of putting aii end to the imprisonment of British subjects, whose 
 sole offence consisted in their having been on board vessels which had attempted to run 
 the blockade. I added that your Lordship had directed me to point out to hjm, that 
 while the Government of Great Britain performed its obligations as a neutral to a bellige- 
 rent, the Government of the United States was bound to perform its corresponding 
 obligations as a belligerent towards a neutral. 
 
 I went on to speak of the numerous complaints which had been made to me by 
 British subjects who represented that they had been drugged and enlisted, while not 
 in a state to act for themselves, in the army or navy of the United States. Your 
 Lordship had, I said, been unable to refrain from observing that this practice of drugging 
 men in order to procure their service in the United States' army and navy, was an 
 abuse of the most odjous description, and that in the case of the British subjects in 
 question, it justified the strongest remonstrance. But (I added) your Lotdship trusted 
 that Mr. Seward, unwilling to excite feelings of just indignation in England, would 
 take measures to put an end to both the abuses, to which I had thus, in obedience to your 
 Lordship's orders, called his attention. 
 
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 Mr. Seward said that he hoped the recent order of the Secretary of the Ifavy* would 
 suffice to put an end to all complaints respecting; the imprisonment of British subjects 
 captured on board neutral viessels. 
 
 "With regard to the allegations that men were enlisted' while unjder the Influence of 
 <lrugs or liquors, Mr. Seward said that it was not in. the United States alone that such 
 practices were resorted to by unscrupulous recruiting agents ; that the complaints made 
 were very much exaggerated, and in many instances entirely unfounded ; that at all events 
 he had reason to hope that a check had been given to these practices, and that we should 
 hear very little more of them. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYdNS: 
 
 Earl' Russell to Lord Lyans. 
 
 My Lord, Fordgn Officer My 6i 1864. 
 
 HER Majesty's Government approve your Lordship's groceedubgSi as reported in 
 your despatches of ■ the 20th ultimo, with reference to the case of" Thomas Tulley and' 
 the other Irish immi'^rants, enlisted atPortland and Boston for, the United States' military; 
 iservice; 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed)' ' RUSSELL. 
 
 * JUr. Welles to Rear-Admiral Farragut, 
 
 "Sir, Nwo^^Bepartmtfiit; May &, 1'864. 
 
 THE following instructions will hereafter be observed with regard to the disposition of persons found on 
 board vessels seized for breach of blockade : — 
 
 1. Bond fide foreign subjects captured in neutnil vessels, whether passengers, ofiScers, or crew, cannot be 
 treated as prisoners of war, unless guilty of belligerent acts, but are entitled to immediate release ; such as are 
 required as witnesses may be detained for that purpose, arid when their testimony is secured they must be 
 unconditionally released. 
 
 2. Foreign subjects captured in vessels without papers or colours, or those sailing under the protection and 
 flag of the insurgent Government, or employed in the service of, that Government, are subject to treatinent as 
 prisoneiB of war, ssaiif in the cajMteity of oflBcers or crew are to be detained. If they are passengers. ouljv> apA. 
 have no. interest inthe vessel or cargo^, and> are JBtuo way; connected with Ifce insurgent Goyernmeiijt, they njay be 
 released. . 
 
 3. CTtazens of the, United States captured either in neutrsd or rebel vesseJS are always to be detaited^ \yith 
 thefoll6witlgexCepti6ns-^--If they are passengers' lOidy',' have no interest in vessel or cargo, have- not- been- aetiie- 
 in the rebellion, or engaged in supplying the insurgents with njunttions of wa»E,'.&iC ,, and ajfe, logtally/dispfflsed, Jthey* 
 may be released, on taiang;iii«f{»fh of aUegvaace^ The same privUef&.roay be,allpwed tft.any.of, theicrBw tl^t are 
 mot seafaring, men,, of like -anteeedents, and who are loyally disposed. 
 
 4. PiToh and Seafaring Men, expepting-Jbnd _/?£?« foreign gubjeets, captured in neutral vessels, are always 
 ■to be detained. These are the principal instruments in maintaining 1^ 'system of vioMog the blocka^, and it'is- 
 importaaitto hold them. Persons habitually engjs^ed in violating' tha blofifcade, allhopgh theyimay-UQtbesecviBg 
 -oniboard the vessels, are, of this class, ajid aJ"© to be iliUewije detaip.ed., 
 
 5. When there is reason to doubt that those who claim to, be foreign subjects are jn reality sucli, they wil] bg. 
 required" to state under oath that they have never been naturalized^ in this countty, have never exercised" the 
 privileges of a citizen thereoF, by voting or otherwise,, and 'have never been in the ;paiy or employment of the- 
 insurgent or so-called "Confederate Government;" on their inafcijig such statement they jonayi be released, 
 provided you harve not evidence of, their, having, sworo falsely. The examination ju case they are doubtful, shQp,ld 
 he rigid. 
 
 6. When the neutrality of a vessel is- dbubtfW, or when a vessel claiming to be neutral is believed. t.o he 
 engaged in transporting supplies and munitions' of war for the iusu-rgent Government, foreign subjects ^apitured in 
 such vessels may be detained until the neutrality- of the vessel is satisfactorily established, It is not advisable tQi 
 detain such persons under this instructiooj unless- th^'e is good ground for doubting the neutrality of tl)e 
 vessel. 
 
 7. Parties who may be detained under the foregoing instructions are to be sentto a northern port f6r safe 
 custody, unless thCTe is a suiteble place for keeping them within tha limits of your command, and the Department 
 furnished with a memorandum in their eases respectively. 
 
 Very respectfully, Stc. 
 (Signed) GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. 
 
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 •3. Correspondence respecting the Enlistment of Her Majesty's 
 Canadian Subjects in tbe United States' Army. 
 
 No. 1. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Earl RusselL — (Received December ^6.) 
 
 MyiiorA, WasMngton, December 15, 1863. 
 
 I HATE tlie honour to transmit to yqur Lordship copies of a despatch from 
 Mr. Lousada, Her Majesty's Consul at Boston, and its inclosure, relating to projects 
 which appear to have "been formed by private persons in Massachusetts for obtaining men 
 in Canada for the naval and military service of the TFnited States. 
 
 I have also the honour to inclose copies of despatches on the subject which I have- 
 writteai to Mr. Lousada and to the Governor-General of Canada. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 'feid'Cisttre ll'ihNo'. 1. 
 Consul Lousada to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Boston, Deteniber 6, 1'868. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to rqpof t to your Lordship, with view of its being communi- 
 cated to the Gorernof-Getieral off Canada, that a person called on me this morning isr 
 information as to the liability he should incur in aittempting to raise on the Canada 
 bordei-s recruits for ilSie United States' service. He was apparently largely supplied 
 with funds, which he exhibited to me. He made no disguise as to his intentions or 
 ■purposes, and only wanted to Imow how far the recruiting law of Canada would touch 
 nim and Ms partners. 
 
 On my telling him that it was illegal, and that he would have to bear the'tesnse- 
 giiences, he said thtitt "be supposed it was to harm to invite men &V^ the boundary line 
 to hare a good time at a farm on this side of it, and "that there they would be free to do 
 as they pleased. _He also said he presumed there was no hindrance to his Maaig 
 CanaldK&ns for farm service, and that they need not Q&me over the line to effect that 
 Tjargatin. 
 
 From other portions of his conversation, not worth rfe^atittg in detail, I am 
 sa^tiafied^frere is an oj;ganization on some large scale for enlisting British subjects in 
 Cacttadia, 'and, as fer as my experience goes, those who are foolish enough to be once 
 enticed over the line on any such pretext wiU find it pretty hard work to get back again 
 out of the clutches of these recruiting gentry. 
 
 The high premium offered "for retraits, and the total failure of the voluntary 
 enlistment here,foster these schemes. 
 
 Since writing above another person (connected with the press) applied. His note 
 and my observations thereon inclosed. 
 
 (Signed) ' FEAKCIS LOUSADA. 
 
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 Inelosure 2 in No. 1. 
 
 Mr. Dunbar to Consul Lousada. 
 Sir, Boston, December 5, 1863. 
 
 A COMMITTEE of the proprietors of alate quarries in Vermont intend to make 
 an effort this winter to procure quarrymen from Wales, to supply the great deficiency of 
 labour which now exists. 
 
 A member of the Committee writes to me to ask if I can obtain a certificate under 
 -your Consular seal that aliens not naturalized are not compelled to serve in the armies of 
 the United States, as the apprehension of military service is believed to stand in the way 
 of obtaining a very fair supply of labourers from the Welsh quarries. 
 
 Will you please to inform me whether you are willing to give such a certificate, and 
 if so, when I shall call at your office to receive it ? 
 
 Very respectfully, &c. 
 
 (Signed) 0. F. DUNBAR. 
 
 Memorandum. 
 
 I saw writer of this same day, and distinctly declined to give any such certificate, on 
 two grounds : — Firstly. That although there was no law holding aliens to military service 
 in the United States, yet, practically, such service was obtained every day, and by means 
 almost amounting to compulsion, and redress was so difficult as to be almost unobtainable. 
 -Secondly. I was perfectly aware of the use intended to be made of my certificate, and 
 that " Wales " meant the " Canada borders." 
 
 The applicant denied this, but admitted that such use might be made of the 
 document. 
 
 F. L. 
 
 Inelosure 3 in No. 1. 
 Lord Lyons to Consul Lousada. 
 
 Sir, Washington, December 8, 1863. 
 
 I HAVE received this morning your despatch of the 5th instant concerning plans 
 which appear to have been formed for obtaining men from Canada to serve in the United 
 States' army. I have sent to the G-overnor-General of Canada copies of your despatch 
 and of its inelosure, as well as of the memorandum which "you have endorsed upon the 
 latter ; and I have to instruct you to communicate from time to time to his Excellency 
 either directly or through this Legation, as you may deem best under the circumstances, 
 any further information which you may be able to procure on the subject, and especially 
 any particulars as to names, dates, places, or other matters which may assist the Canadian 
 authorities in detecting the persons engaged in these practices and bringing them to 
 justice. 
 
 Tou will of course address the Governor-General directly in all cases in which it is 
 desirable to save' time, and you will simultaneously send to me copies of your communica- 
 tions to his Excellency. 
 
 I approve of the course taken by you (as stated in the memorandum on the inelosure) 
 with regard to the application made to you for a certificate as to the enlistment of aliens 
 in the service of the. United States. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inelosure 4 in No. 1. 
 Lord Lyons to Viscount Monck. 
 
 My Lord, , Washington, December 8, 1863. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Excellency copies of a despatch from Her 
 Majesty's Consul at Boston and its inelosure, which relate to plans formed in Massachu- 
 setts for obtaining men from Canada to serve in the United States' army. I inclose also 
 a copy of the answer which I have made to the Consul's despatch. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
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 N"o. 2. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — {Received April 26.) 
 
 My Lord, Washington, April 11, 1864. 
 
 i^|I HAVE the honour, with reference to my despatch of the 15th December 
 last, to transmit to your Lordship a copy of a despatch which I have received from 
 Mr. Lousada, Her Majesty's Consul at Boston, respecting a scheme for engaging persons 
 in Canada and Nova Scotia to come to this country as labourers, the real object of which 
 is (as Mr. Lonsada suspects) to obtain recruits for the United States' army. 
 
 I inclose also copies of despatches on the subject which I have addressed to the, 
 Oovernor-General of Canada, and the Administrators of the Government of lifova Scotia 
 and to Mr. Lousada. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 1 in S"o. 2. 
 
 Consul Lousada to Lord Lyons. 
 My Lord, ' Boston, April .5, 1864. 
 
 If^gl HAVE the honour to report that some parties called at my office this morning, 
 and stated that they were about to hire, in Canada and ]!^ova Scotia, 300 labourers to 
 work at some patent-brick works here, and wanted my certificate that it was a bondjide 
 transaction. They feared their agent might be molested if he had not some British 
 official paper to show that his mission was a proper one. I refused to give any such 
 document, and did not disguise from them that it was clear to me this was one of the 
 schemes for recruiting the United States' army, and that I should consider myself culpable 
 if in any way, even indirectly, I aided in deluding the poor men they were going to 
 employ in their alleged patent-brick making. i- 
 
 I venture to suggest that if this were brought to the knowledge of the Provincial 
 Governments, it might be of service, and prevent some of the border people being 
 deluded. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) F. LOUSADA. 
 
 Inclosure 2 in No. 2. 
 Lord Lyons to Viscount Monck^ 
 
 My Lord, Washington, April 8, 1864 
 
 I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Excellency a copy of a despatch which I 
 have received from Her Majesty's Consul at Boston, respecting a scheme for engaging 
 persons in Canada and Nova Scotia to come to this country as labourers, the real o^'ect 
 of which is (as the Consul believes) to obtain recruits for the United States' army. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS 
 
 Inclosure 3 in No. 2. 
 Lord Lyons to Consul Lousada. 
 
 Ujj, Washington, April 8, 1864. 
 
 ' T^AVB received to-day your despatch of the 5th instant, respecting a scheme to 
 engage persons in Canada and Nova Scotia to come to the United States, ostensibly as 
 labourers and I have transmitted copies of it to the Governments of those Provinces. 
 ' I am, &c. 
 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
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 FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE 
 
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 UNITED STATES' ARMY. 
 
 Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. 
 
 1864. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
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Further Correspondence respecting the Enlistment of British 
 Subjects in the United States' Army. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Earl Russell. — (Received July 21.) 
 
 My Lord, Washington,. July 8, 1864. 
 
 I INCLOSE copies of the correspondence respecting Thomas Tulley and the six 
 other Irishmen, enlisted on their arrival at Portland, in the steam-ship, " Nova Scotian," 
 which has taken place since I had the honour to address to your Lordship my despatch 
 of the 20th ultimo. 
 
 I have the satisfaction of heing able to say that six of the men appear to be for the 
 present in safety. The report made to Mr. Consul Murray, that Michael Moran had been 
 killed has happily proved to be erroneous. I fear, however, that there can be little reason 
 to doubt that the seventh man, Thomas Burke, was in fact killed in action, while serving 
 in the United States' Army. I have requested the United States' authorities to commu- 
 nicate to me all the information which they can obtain respecting his fate. 
 
 I regret to say that three of the men represent that they were subjected to hardships 
 and indignities of a most unwarrantable kind, on their way from the army of the Potomac 
 do Portland. I have requested that an investigation may be made, and that if the allega- 
 tions of the men prove to be well-founded, no time may be lost in calling to account those 
 who are responsible for their ill-treatment. 
 
 I have also pointed out that I have received nothing more than a formal acknowledg- 
 anent of my note of the 10th ultimo, repeating my demand for the discharge of the men, 
 and I have reminded Mr. Seward that I am waiting for the answers of the United States' 
 Government to that demand. 
 
 I have moreover addressed to Mr. Seward further inquiries respecting James Traynor, 
 the Irish passenger by the " Nova Scotian," who was enlisted at Boston. I have the 
 lionour to inclose a copy of my note, and a copy of a note from Mr. Seward acknowledging 
 the receipt of it. 
 
 I have, &o. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 1. 
 Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Department of State, Washington, June 18, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 10th instant, 
 relative to the cases of Thomas Tulley and six other Irish passengers, of the steamer 
 <*Nova Scotian," alleged, to have being improperly enlisted at Portland, and in reply to 
 m&rm your Lordship, that I have inclosed a_copy thereof to the Secretary of War, who 
 iias the Bubjeot under investigation. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWABD. 
 
 fsas] 
 
Inclosure 2. 
 
 Consul Murray to Lord Lyons, 
 My Lord, Portland, June 23, 1864. 
 
 ;-:■■: ■ I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch dated 
 the 11th instant, authorizing me to employ a lawyer on behalf of Thomas Tulley and th& 
 other Irishmen who were enlisted into the 20th Maine Regiment, if I deem it advisable 
 to do so. 
 
 Thomas Tulley presented himself at this office yesterday on his arrival from Phila- 
 delphia. He did not appear in uniform, as he stated that he had been deprived of it by 
 two men, who induced him to go and lodge with them at Boston, an^ who the next 
 morning endeavoured to entice him to re-enlist and accept the bounty money over agairi^ 
 This he refused to do, and came on in the clothes lent him by the master of the house,' 
 who he believes was in the plot. 
 
 I went with Tulley to the Provost-Marshal, who has sent him to camp Berry, in this 
 immediate neighbourhood, so as to be near at hand when required. Tulley knew nothing: 
 about his companions. 
 
 Michael Byrne returned from the hospital at Augusta a few days ago, and told me 
 that he had obtained a ten days' furlough. He seemed to have recovered from the wound 
 in the head, but told me that he was suffering from other bodily ailments. 
 
 Tulley also acquainted me that he was suffering from a heart disease, and that the 
 sight of his right eye was quite defective. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) H. J. MURRAY. 
 
 Inclosure 3. 
 
 Consul Murray to Lord Lyons. 
 My Lord, Portland, June BO, 1864. 
 
 I WENT over to Camp Berry yesterday afternoon to see Thomas Tulley, who had 
 not called upon me since his first arrival, and he told me that Moran, who I understood 
 had been killed, Hogan, and Higgins had arrived at the camp on the previous day, 
 Tuesday. He brought them out to me, and I had some conversation with them. Moran 
 told me that he had been separated from his regiment during action, and was thus reported 
 killed. Both Higgins and Moran seemed in perfect health, but Hogan appeared delicate. 
 They all complained oi their treatment during part of their journey to Portland, having 
 been placed in irons and lodged in prison. I have requested them to make a written 
 statement of their cases, which I will forward to your Lordship. The Provost-Marshal 
 here says he knows nothing about it, and concludes that they must have done something 
 wrong to have received this treatment. 
 
 Cassidy has not arrived from Boston, and Byrne I have not seen here since his arrival 
 from Cape Fry at Augusta, on a ten days' furlough, as reported to your Lordship in my 
 despatch of the 23rd instant. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) H. J. MURRAY. 
 
 Inclosure 4. 
 
 Consul Murray to Lord Lyons. 
 My Lord, Portland, July \ , 18Q4. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith an original letter which I. received 
 yesterday from T. Tulley at Camp Berry, relating, on their behalf, the treatment alleged 
 to have been received by the three Irishmen, Michael Moran, James Higgins, and Martin 
 Hogan, on their journey from the army to Portland, where they were ordered to come 
 in pursuance of a Special Order, No. 194, dated at the War Department, Washington, 
 June 2nd. 
 
 This alleged treatment appears so strange and uncalled-for that I can only presume 
 there must have been some misunderstanding of their cases upon the part of the military 
 authorities who forwarded the men on, or that some unacknowledged conduct on their part 
 led to it. 
 
 The Provost-Marshal told me to-day that the' men arrived from Washington in care 
 of a sergeant, who gave them into his charge, but not as prisoners. The sergeant has 
 
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 iretumed, and nothing had come to his (Captain Doughty's) knowledge of their alleged 
 
 ill-treatment or of their misconduct to induce it. - '--i '*" 
 
 The sergeant's name is believed to be Crook, and he belongs to the Veteran Reserve 
 Corps. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) H. J. MURRAY. 
 
 Inclosure 5. 
 Thomas Tulley to Consul Murray. 
 
 Sir, Camp Berry, Portland, June 30, 1864. 
 
 I BEG most respectfully to inform you that Michael Moran (reported killed, but still 
 alive), James Higgins, and Martin Hogan, arrived at this camp from the array on the evening 
 of the 28th instant, and I think it right for me to make known to you the treatment they 
 received on their journey. On the receipt of the order from the Secretary at War they 
 were, on the 9th instant, sent from their regiment to the Provost-Marshal's head-quarters, 
 who read and kept the order, and then ordered the men to be placed'in the Bull Ring, an 
 open space in the fields, surrounded by armed men. wherein are placed prisoners of all 
 grades. On the next day there was a number of armed men going to Washington, and 
 the above-named sent a note to the Provost- Marshal, explaining their position, and 
 requesting to be forwarded with them, but the captain of the guard made answer that they 
 were not going to puff General Partrick with notes ; they were consequently tiansferred 
 from one Bull Ring to another, from the 9th to the 23rd instant, where they were well nigh 
 starved, as they bad at one time to march three successive days without a mouthful of 
 food, and consequently were reduced to eating clover and green apples to support nature. 
 They remonstrated with the authorities, stating that they were not prisoners, but the 
 invariable answer was, they could not be assisted otherwise, as in fact there were in the 
 Bull Ring men dying of hunger, and brought-to in hospital afterwards. On an inspection 
 by the doctor, one of your clients being well nigh dead of hunger, was seen by him, 
 and after making inquiries respecting him and the others, he was informed they were not 
 prisoners but foreigners proceeding to Portland under British protection. The doctor 
 then departed, with apparent disgust, and gave no assistance ; and from the feeling of the 
 men, and their conversation of such undeserved and destroying treatment, I firmly allege 
 that no idea can be had of the misery they endured. 
 
 On the 23rd they were sent with convicts under guard to Washington, and then 
 transferred to the Old Capitol; from thence they were sent in irons to Boston, where they 
 were left handcuffed together all night, but for the purpose of getting sleep they had ta break 
 the cuffs. The consequence was that they were marched through Boston tied with ropes, 
 and arrived in Portland, as before stated. They did their utmost to see Her Majesty's 
 Minister in Washington, but failed, nor could they see you on their arrival, as they were 
 sent under, guard to this place. 
 
 You have in the foregoing an outline of their travels, but the men say that as long as 
 they live they will not forget the treatment they received, after fighting bravely in all the 
 late battles, as documents from their officers can make manifest. 
 
 I hope you will pardon this long letter, but from the kindness we have received from- 
 Her Britannic Majesty's Minister and yourself, I thought it incumbent on me to supply you 
 such information, and therefore I have, &c. 
 
 (Sigiied) THOMAS TULLEY. 
 
 Inclosure 6. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 Sir, Washington, July '!, 1864. 
 
 ON the 10th of last month I had the honour to address to you a note, in which, by 
 command of Her Majesty's Government, I renewed the application, which I had made in 
 their name on the 23rd of the previous month of May, fpr the discharge from the United 
 States' army of the seven Irish passengers by the steam- ship " Nova Scotian," who were 
 enlisted immediately after their arrival at Portland on the 18th of last month. You were 
 so good as to inform me that you had referred my note to the Secretary of War. I await 
 the answer of the United States' Goveri*ment to the application which it contained. I 
 must in the meantime ask your serious attention to the inclosed copy of a letter addressed 
 
to Her Majesty's Consul at Portland on behalf of three of these Irishmen ; namely, 
 Michael Moran, James Higgins, and Martin Hogan. I do not doubt that you will cause aa 
 investigation to be made of the allegations respecting the hardships and indignities suffered 
 by Moran, Higgins, and Hogan on their way from the army of the Potomac to Portland ; 
 and I trust that if these allegations prove to be well founded, no time will be lost in calling 
 to account those who are responsible for the ill-treatment of these unfortunate men. 
 
 These three men appear to be now at Portland. I am informed also that Thomas 
 TuUey is at that place, and that Michael Byrne and Edward Cassidy have been removed 
 from the seat of war. The seventh man, Thomas Burke, is reported to have been killed 
 in action while serving in t^e 20th Regiment of Maine Volunteers. I beg you to be so 
 good as to communicate to me any information respecting his fate which the United 
 States' authorities may be able to obtain. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 7. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Consul Murray. 
 
 Sir, Washington, July 7, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE received your despatches of the 6th, 23rd, and 30th ultimo and 1st instant, 
 relative to the case of Thomas Tulley and the six other Irish passengers by the " Nova 
 Scotian," who were enlisted at Portland. 
 
 I have addressed to the Secretary of State of the United States a representation on 
 the subject of the hardships and indignities which three of these men are stated to have 
 suffered on their way from the army of the Potomac to Portland. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS. 
 
 Inclosure 8. 
 
 Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward. 
 Sir, Washington, June 10, 1864. 
 
 IN a note which I had the honour to address to you on the 27th of April last, 1 
 submitted to you a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Boston, reporting a 
 Statement made by James Traynor, one of the Irishmen brought over to Portland by the 
 *' Nova Scotian," respecting the circumstances under which he enlisted in the United 
 States' military service. In a note dated the 30th of April you were so good as to inform 
 me that you had referred the matter to the War Department. 
 
 I shall Ibe much obliged if you will let me know whether any progress has been made 
 ftt the investigation of the case. 
 
 I have, &c. 
 (Signed) LYONS, 
 
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 Inclosure 9. 
 Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. 
 
 My Lord, Department of State, Washington, June 20, 1864. 
 
 I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 'lOth instant, 
 
 inquiring as to the progress of the inve^igation in the case of James Traynor, one of the 
 
 Irish passengers of the Steamer "Jl^ova Scotian," alleged to have been improperly enlisted. 
 
 In reply, I have the honour to inform your Lordship that I have called upon the 
 
 Secretaryof War for information. 
 
 I have &e. 
 <Signed) ' WILLIAM H. SEWAB©. 
 
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