Note 5 — OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS: SHOWING

The cynical frankness of Earl Russell reveals the prominence of this consideration. In autobiographical comments, at a later day, he says: “During the discussion of the questions relating to the Alabama and the Shenandoah, it was the great object of the British Government to preserve for the subject the security of Trial by Jury, and for the nation the legitimate and lucrative trade of ship-building.”—Selections from Speeches of Earl Russell, 1817 to 1841, and from Despatches, 1859 to 1865, with Introductions by Earl Russell, Vol. II. p. 266.