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 16, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 13th instant, enclosing a copy of a correspondence between Rear-Admiral Wilkes and the governor of Barbadoes, relative to the steamer Florida having been permitted to coal at that island.

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

LYONS.

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