Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: I herewith enclose the copy of a letter of yesterday addressed to this department by Samuel Whiting, esq., late consul of the United States at Nassau, with a copy of the papers which accompanied it, relative to the arrival at that port of the piratical steamer Georgiana, which entered it on the 27th ultimo, under the pretext that she was a private armed merchant vessel, although the fact is notorious that she was built, manned, armed and equipped in England for the purpose of preying upon our national commerce, as the Alabama has been doing.
You will present this case to the consideration of Earl Russell with a request that it may receive the early attention of her Majesty’s government.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.