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

Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.

Washington, April 7, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 4th instant, stating that you have been informed that the American schooner Hanover, of Boston, has been carried as a prize to Long cay, Bahamas, and that her cargo has been sold there.

I will, without loss of time, send copies of your note to her Majesty’s government, and to the governor of the Bahama islands.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, &c.