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 to acknowledge the receipt of your note, accompanied by the copy of a despatch and by a copy of its enclosures, received by you from Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, relative to the capture of the British steamer Peterhoff, and to inform you that the papers have been referred to the Secretary of the Navy.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your lordship’s obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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