out of them with its precious constitution altered, or its honestly obtained dominion in any way abridged. Great Britain has but to wait a few months and all her present inconveniences will cease with all our own troubles. If she take a different course, she will calculate for herself the ultimate as well as the immediate consequences, and will consider what position she will hold when she shall have forever lost the sympathies and the affections of the only nation on whose sympathies and affections she has a natural claim. In making that calculation, she will do well to remember that, in the controversy she proposes to open, we shall be actuated by neither pride, nor passion, nor cupidity, nor ambition, but we shall stand simply on the principle of self-preservation, and that our cause will involve the independence of nations, and the rights of human nature. I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, WILLIAM H. SEWARD. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Esq., &c., &c., &c. [Page 13. The subtile corrections on this page have already been noted. The paper its sily is not to be reac or them to the Butus Secueling of дилов be your qind. You wel keep back nothing wher the time acrin, that it pics being ла and effect, and you will all the while he campe Mr Dallas in a brief dispatch of May 22 (1:339) tells us that Lord John. Russell recently requested -terview with him on account of the solice-tude which His Lordship felt concerning the effect of certain measures represented as littely to be adopted by the President. In that conversation the British Secretary told M. Dallas that the three Representatives of the Southern Confederacy London, that Lord John Russell had not were then in yet seen them, but that he was not unvil informed on = Dallas that an understanding axists between the British and Trench Governments which would lead both to take one and the sume course as to very-nition. His Lordship then referred to |