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No. 566.
(BAHAMAS)
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Foreign Office, June 1, 1869.
THE Lords of the Admiralty will doubtless have communicated to Earl Gran- ville, who may indeed have received a report on the subject direct from Governor Walker, the circumstances connected with the arrival of the British steam vessel "Salvador" at Nassau on the 7th of May with a large party of Cubans on board, and with the shipment at Nassau of a quantity of arms and ammunition and further passengers under circumstances which could leave no doubt as to her ultimate destina- tion being in aid of the insurgents in Cuba.
The Governor of Nassau appears to have been misled by the Colonial Attorney General into supposing that he had no power to detain or to interfere with this vessel, but the Law Officers of the Crown have informed Lord Clarendon that under the circumstances stated the Governor had the power, under the 5th section of the Foreign Enlistment Act, to detain the vessel, and that it was his duty to have detained her.
I am to request that you will move Earl Granville to cause an intimation to this effect to be conveyed to the Governor by the earliest available means, as it seems likely that further proceedings of the same nature may be attempted; and I enclose, for his Lordship's information, a copy of a letter to the same effect which by Lord Clarendon's direction I have addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty.
I am to add that Lord Clarendon would submit for the consideration of Lord Granville whether Governor Walker's conduct in apprizing the Spanish authorities in Cuba of the suspicious character of the "Salvador" may not properly be approved.
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
E. HAMMOND.
Q 16378,----869, 25,-5/86,
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