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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Clay.

No. 35.]

Department of State, Washington, September 5, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of the 13th of August (No. 18) has been received, and the information it communicates, relating to the events occurring in Poland, is appreciated.

Your account of the character of the French note to Russia, and the anticipated tone of the Austrian and British notes, accords, in all respects, with the understanding that has obtained here on that subject.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Cassius M. Clay, Esq., &c., &c., &c.