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. 728.]

Department of State, Washington, October 5, 1863.

Sir: Referring to my No. 727, of the 30th ultimo, I now enclose a copy of a communication of the 1st instant, addressed to me by J. D. Jones, esq., President of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, of New York, relative to the claim of that company against the British government, on account of losses growing out of the destruction of the American ship “Brilliant,” of that port.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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