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, May 2, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 27th ultimo, relative to the case of the captured British steamship Granite City, and to inform you that it will receive careful attention.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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