INTERNATIONAL LAW. CASE OF THE TRENT. Capture and Surrender of Mason and Slidell. BY JOEL PARKER. CAMBRIDGE: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. INTERNATIONAL LAW. CASE OF THE TRENT. Capture and Surrender of Mason and Slidell. BY JOEL PARKER. CAMBRIDGE: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. MEMORANDUM.. The following Article, intended for the April number of the North American Review, but not finished in season, was completed in that month, and printed for the next number. This will serve to explain why certain matters appear in notes which, if it had been written at a later date, might have found a place in the text, and why its appearance in its present form is delayed until July. The substance of the legal argument, on the facts then existing, was stated in a Lecture delivered to the students in the Law School of Harvard College, in the course of the author's duties as Royall Professor of Law, January 17, 1862. CAMBRIDGE, May 1, 1862. INTERNATIONAL LAW. 1. Correspondence relative to the Case of Messrs. Mason and Slidell. Pub. Doc. 2. Papers relating to Foreign Affairs, accompanying the President's Message to Congress at the Opening of its Session in December, 1861. Pub. Doc. 3. Speech of SENATOR SUMNER, delivered in the Senate, January 9, 1862. Washington, D. C.: Scammell & Co. 4. The Trent Affair. The remaining Despatches. Boston Daily Journal, January, 1862. 5. Additional Despatches on the Trent Case. Boston Daily Journal, February 12, 1862. 6. Opinion of M. D'HAUTEFEUILLE. New York Times, January 4, 1862. THE affair of the Trent is settled so far as immediate results are involved. Messrs. Mason and Slidell have been delivered up to Lord Lyons, and have reached their destination by the way of St. Thomas and Southampton. There has been no war with Great Britain, no humiliating surrender, no apology, no ovation, nor any great manifestations of rejoicing among the people of England. The most unkind cut of all is the declaration of the London Times that Great Britain would have done as much for two negroes; as she might have done with much more propriety if the United |