Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 509.]

Department of State, Washington, March 11, 1863.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch (No. 331) of the 19th ultimo, relative to the resolutions of the New York Mutual Insurance Company, concerning depredations committed by the piratical steamer Alabama, and to inform you that your proceedings as therein stated are approved.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c,. &c., &c.