Kind of silly, actually.
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To the British, however, secession isn't the legal or proper tool by which to settle internal disputes. "What if Texas decided today it wanted to secede from the Union? Lincoln made the case against secession and he was right," they argue in their brief.
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Lincoln's "case" was to win that war. If the South had won Britain, France and the rest would have recognized them and their secession would have thus been legal.
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The Declaration of Independence was not only illegal, but actually treasonable.
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Under British law it certainly was illegal and treasonable, which is why Franklin made his famous statement: "Gentlemen, we must all hang together, or most certainly we will all hang separately." We were already at war, and had been for over a year. The Colonial Governor of Massachussetts started it by trying to exercise gun control. The Declaration was an explanation of why we were already fighting, not an excuse to start it.