[Extracts.]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton.

No. 236.]

Sir: Your despatch No. 200 has been submitted to the President.

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I send you a copy of a despatch which goes out by this steamer, recalling Mr. Canisius, our consul at Vienna. You may read it to Mr. Thouvenel, and give him a copy of it if he should desire one.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

[The above-mentioned enclosure appears elsewhere in this correspondence.]