Russell to Lyons, Dec.

5, 1863.

Bullock, _Secret Service_, declares the British Government to have been neutral but with strong leaning toward the North.] [Footnote 1038: Hansard, 3rd Ser., CLXXIII, pp.

430-41, 544-50, 955-1021.

The Tory point of view is argued at length by Brooks Adams, _The Seizure of the Laird Rams_, pp.