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 yesterday, and to thank you for the copy of the telegram received by you from his excellency the governor of Vancouver’s island, which accompanied it, regarding the rumors that endeavors were being made to fit out privateers in that colony.

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.