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 14, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 12th instant, soliciting a delay in the sale of the prize vessel Peterhoff and its cargo until appeal can be had to the Supreme Court, and to state that the matter has been referred to the Secretary of the Navy.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons.

Another note was addressed to Lord Lyons, of the same date and in the same words as the above, relative to the Springbok.