See my book, _British Interests and Activities in Texas_, Ch.

IV.] [Footnote 967: Bullock, _Secret Service under the Confederacy_.] [Footnote 968: Bernard, _Neutrality of Great Britain during the American Civil War_, p.

338-9.] [Footnote 969: _Parliamentary Papers_, 1863, _Commons_, LXXII.
"Correspondence respecting the 'Alabama.'" Also _ibid._, "Correspondence between Commissioner of Customs and Custom House Authorities at Liverpool relating to the 'Alabama.'" The last-minute delay was due to the illness of a Crown adviser.] [Footnote 970: State Department, Eng., Vol.

81, No.264.Adams to Seward, Nov.

21, 1862.] [Footnote 971: Selborne, in his _Memorials: Family and Personal_, II, p.
430, declared that in frequent official communication with all members of the Cabinet at the time, "I never heard a word fall from any one of them expressive of anything but regret that the orders for the detention of the _Alabama_ were sent too late." Of quite different opinion is Brooks Adams, in his "The Seizure of the Laird Rams" (_Proceedings_, Mass.Hist.Soc., Vol.