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 6, 1863.

My Lord: With reference to your communication of the 2d instant, recommending to consideration the request of the passengers of the captured British steamer Peterhoff to be allowed to leave the vessel with their personal effects, in order to have free access to her Majesty’s consul at New York, and to my reply, I now have the honor to enclose to you the copy of a letter of the 4th of this month from the Secretary of the Navy on the subject.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons.