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. 601.]

Department of State, Washington, May 19, 1863.

Sir: I enclose for your information the copy of a note of the 12th instant addressed by this department to Lord Lyons, relative to an impression in England that it is the intention of this government, by captures without cause, by delays of adjudication, and by wanton imprisonment of the masters and, part of the crews of captured vessels, to put a stop to the British trade to Matamoras altogether.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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