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 communication of the 18th instant, in which, alluding to the correspondence between the governments of the United States and Great Britain touching the restrictions on the trade between the northern ports of the United States and the Bahamas, you express a hope that the recent aggravation of the inconvenience, arising from the circumstance that certain bonds therein referred to are no longer cancelled, may be removed without delay.

In reply, I have the honor to state that the attention of the Secretary of the Treasury has been invited to the matter.

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.