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, August 3, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 1st instant, relative to complaints which have reached her Majesty’s government concerning the proceedings of the United States consul at Bahia, and of the commander of the United States ship Mohican, with respect to a British merchant vessel named the Castor, which had made arrangements to supply the insurgent vessels Alabama and Georgia with coals, and to state that it will be taken into consideration.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons.