The following paragraph contains all that Queen Victoria, in her address to Parliament, had to say of American affairs: –
“A question of great importance, and which might have led to very serious consequences, arose between Her Majesty and the Government of the United States of North America, owning to the seizure and forcible removal of four passengers from on board a British mail packet by the commander of a ship-of-war of the United States. The question has been satisfactorily settled by the restoration of the passengers to British protection, and by the disavowal of the United States Government of the act of violence committed by this naval officer. The friendly relation between Her Majesty and the President of the United States are therefore unimpaired.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 27, 1862, p. 2
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