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 22, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th instant, transmitting a copy of a letter from the colonial department of her Majesty’s government to the foreign office, and an extract from a letter from the Hudson’s Bay Company to the colonial department, on the subject of preventing the Indians on the northern frontier of the United States from being supplied with arms and ammunition, and to thank you for the information thus communicated.

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to your lordship the assurance of my high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD,

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