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. Stuart.

Department of State, Washington, November 3, 1862.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 1st instant, with accompanying protest relative to the capture of the British steamer Sunbeam by United States blockading vessels off Wilmington, North Carolina, and to inform you in reply that the Secretary of the Navy has been requested to make an inquiry into the alleged acts of malfeasance, and a neglect on the part of the capturing vessels.

I have the honor to be, sir, your very obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Hon. William Stuart, &c., &c., &c.