[4] Debate on the Queen’s Proclamation, May 16, 1861: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLXII. col. 2084. [5] The cynical frankness of Earl Russell reveals the prominence of this consideration. In autobiographical comments, at a later day, he says: “During the discussion of the questions relating to the Alabama and the Shenandoah, it was the great object of the British Government to preserve for the subject the security of Trial by Jury, _and for the nation the legitimate and lucrative trade of ship-building_.”--_Selections from Speeches of Earl Russell, 1817 to 1841, and from Despatches, 1859 to 1865_, with Introductions by Earl Russell, Vol. II. p. 266. [6] “Apud Agathiam legimus, hostem esse qui faciat quod hosti placet.”--GROTIUS, _De Jure Belli ac Pacis_, Lib. III. cap. xvii. § 3, 2. [7] Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams: Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 8, pp. 2, 3. [8] Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward, October 14, 1861: Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, 1861, p. 169: Executive Documents, 37th Cong. 2d Sess., Senate, No. 1. [9] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. C. col. 714. [10] Spectator, January 4, 1862, p. 17. [11] Sir Walter Scott, in correspondence with his friend Ellis, undertook to explain how a whole edition of Godwin’s Life of Chaucer had vanished, by conjecturing, that, “as the heaviest materials to be come at, they have been sent on the secret expedition, planned by Mr. Phillips and adopted by our sapient Government, for blocking up the mouth of our enemy’s harbors.”--_Letter to George Ellis, Esq., March 19, 1804_: Lockhart’s Life of Scott, Vol. I. p. 414. [12] Letter to Lord Mulgrave, April 3, 1809: Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. I. pp. 363, 364. [13] Earl of Malmesbury, Speech in the House of Lords, February 5, 1863: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 3d Ser., Vol. CLIX. col. 53. [14] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Vol. X. col. 695. [15] Letter of January 17, 1863: Correspondence relating to the Civil War in the United States, pp. 51, 52: Parliamentary Papers, 1863, Vol. LXXII. [16] Earl Russell to Mr. Stuart, October 10, 1862: Correspondence respecting Instructions given to Naval Officers of the United States in regard to Neutral Vessels and Mails, p. 5: Parliamentary Papers, 1863, Vol. LXXII. [17] See, _post_, Appendix, p. 490. [18] Earl Russell to Lord Lyons, April 24, 1863: Correspondence respecting Trade with Matamoras, p. 1: Parliamentary Papers, 1863, Vol. LXXII. [19] Wicquefort, L’Ambassadeur et ses Fonctions, Liv. II. sec. 11. [20] “La neutralité n’existe plus dès qu’elle n’est pas parfaite.”--_Réponse du Comte de Bernstorff à M. Hailes, Envoyé Britannique à Copenhague, le 28 Juillet, 1793_: Cussy, Phases et Causes Célèbres du Droit Maritime des Nations, Tom. II. p. 177. [21] Speech on the Repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Bill, April 16, 1823: Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 2d Ser., Vol. VIII. col. 1036.