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. Pruyn

No. 39.]

Department of State, Washington, April 17, 1863.

Sir: Tour despatch of the 27th of January last, No. 8, has been received, and I have the pleasure to inform you that in addressing the note of the same day, of which you enclose a copy, to their excellencies the ministers of foreign affairs of Japan, on the subject of the attack on the British legation in June last, you have very acceptably fulfilled the instructions conveyed to you in my No. 24.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Robert H. Pruyn, Esq., &c., &c., Yedo.