Excerpt from Correspondence Respecting the Removal of British Consuls From the So-Styled Confederate States of America: Presented to the House of Commons by Command of Her Majesty, 1864 Many who claim to be Her Majesty's subjects in this State are large slaveholders, whose danger of loss of property, and of insult and cruel injury to their wives and children, in case of insurrection, is as great as the danger to the citizens of this State, and their obligation to protect their property and their families against the local aggressions of the United States' forces is no less. While Her Majesty's Government has constantly refused to recognize the existence of the Government of the Confederate States, her citizens have enjoyed its protection. And While she refuses to hold any diplomatic relations with us, you, as her Representative, are permitted to represent her interests here, and to be heard for the protection of her subjects and their property. In this state of things, British subjects who still elect to remain in the Confederacy should not expect to do less than the service now required of them and while free egress will in no case be denied them, should they desire to depart from this State less than the service now required will not in future be demanded, in case they choose to remain in the State and enjoy its protection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.