Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, February 23, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 21st instant, accompanied by a copy of a letter addressed to you by Mr. J. M. Vernon, who claims to be a British subject, who was rescued from the steamer Huntress, a blockade-runner from Charleston, and subsequently committed to Fort Lafayette.

In reply, I have the honor to acquaint you that the case shall forthwith be examined, with a view to such further proceedings as the result may appear to call for.

I have the honor to be your very obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.