Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

Mr. F. W. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, June 3, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 1st instant, and to thank you for the accompanying copy of a letter which her Majesty’s secretary of state for the colonies caused to be addressed to the under secretary of state for foreign affairs, on being acquainted with the existence of the rumor that an attempt was being made to fit out a privateer at Vancouver’s island.

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

F. W. SEWARD.

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