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

Mr. Pruyn to Mr. Seward

No. 27.]

Legation of the United States, Yedo, May 12, 1863.

Sir: England and France have offered to assist the Tycoon against the hostile daimios. The offer will probably be declined. Then coercive measures will follow. The United States steamer Wyoming is at Kanagawa.

I have honor to be, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

ROBERT H. PRUYN, Minister Resident, &c., &c.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, &c.

The above is a copy of the despatch sent to the collector at San Francisco, to be sent by telegraph to Washington.