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. 578.]

Department of State, Washington, May 5, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of April 17 (No. 377) has been received, and I have pleasure in stating that your correspondence with Earl Russell on the subject of a resort to the employment of judicial process, in co-operation with the government of Great Britain, to prevent the threatened violations of the neutrality laws of the kingdom, is entirely satisfactory to the President.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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