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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 466.]

Department of State, Washington, February 2, 1863.

Sir: Herewith I enclose, for presentation to the British government, a copy of a memorial just received at this department from the New York Mutual Insurance Company, of the city of New York, relative to losses sustained by it on account of the destruction of the ships Brilliant and Manchester on the high seas by the piratical steamer Alabama.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.