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. 575.]

Department of State, Washington, May 4, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of the 17th of April (No. 379) has been received. The promptness with which you have laid before the government of Great Britain the facts ascertained by you in regard to the unlawful equipment and departure of the Virginia, is appreciated, and the President indulges a confident expectation that that government will do all that may be within its power to avert from the international commerce the danger which the transaction menaces, and to prevent similar transactions in future.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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