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 5, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your lordship’s note of the 4th instant, relating to the manner of the capture of the Dolphin, and suggesting that some of the proceedings of the Wachusett in connexion with that transaction were of questionable propriety. I shall lose no time in bringing the same to the notice of the proper department of the government, with a view to the correction of irregularities in the exercise of the right of search, if any shall be found to have occurred.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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