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. 723.]

Department of State, Washington, September 26, 1863.

Sir: Referring to previous instructions upon similar cases, I enclose a copy of a letter of the 24th instant, and of the memorial which accompanied it, addressed to me by Messrs. N. P. Mann & Co., of Boston, preferring a claim against Great Britain on account of losses accruing to them by the destruction of the American ship Commonwealth, of New York, by the Florida, (so called.) You will be pleased to pursue the course in regard to this claim which may be adopted in regard to the others.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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