to do so disconcerted Russell. In his second despatch
to Lyons, of May 18, he made no suggestion of adhe-
sion pure and simple, but he said that he could not
accept the renunciation of privateering on the part
of the United States, "if coupled with the condition
that her Majesty's government should enforce its re-
nunciation on the Confederate States;" yet when
the, United States offered to renounce privateering
without coupling to it any condition whatever, Rus-
sell introduced conditions on his part, which he knew
would prevent President Lincoln from carrying out
his purpose.

Whether these were the motives of Russell or not,
they were the motives that the American Legation in
London was irresistibly obliged to impute to hint.
After the manner in which Russell received the ad-
vances of PresidentLincoln, no American minister
in London could safely act on any other assumption
than that the British government meant, at the first
convenient opportunity, to revive the belligerent pre-
tences dormant since the War of 1812.

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