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Public Offices document. Minutes (2), Enclosures (untranscribed) (1).

 Hammond, Edmund
Foreign Office
Fortescue, Chichester Inserted revisionDesc.
Hammond to Fortescue (Parliamentary Under-Secretary) 5134, CO 305/15, p. 166; received 23 May
Foreign Office
21 May 1860

With reference to my Letter of the 19th ultimo, I am directed by Lord John Russell to inclose, for the information of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, a Copy of a Despatch from General Cass to Mr Dallas, which has been communicated by the latter to Lord John RussellRussell, respecting the disputed title to the Island of San Juan.

I am etc. E. Hammond
Mr Elliot VJ 23 May
The American GovtGovernment seems as decidedly averse to compromise as it previously expressed itself to arbitration. This unpleasant question therefore, so far as public despatches go, would seem as far from a solution as ever. TFE 25 May CF 25 N 27
Lewis Cass, to George M. Dallas, 23 April 1860, arguing at length in favour of the American claim to San Juan Island, and pointing out inconsistencies in the claims made by the British (11 pages).