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, April 4, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor, in acknowledging the receipt of your communication of yesterday, relative to the neglect of the commander of the United States steamer Vanderbilt to perform the customary courteous observances on passing the naval station at Port Royal, in Jamaica, to inform your lordship that a copy of it has been transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy, whose reply will furnish an occasion for further correspondence on the subject when it shall have reached me.

I have the honor to be, my lord, your very obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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