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. Dayton.

No. 431.]

Department of State, Washington, November 16, 1863.

Sir: Your despatches to No. 370, inclusive, have been received.

In compliance with your request for papers showing the expectations of France and Great Britain in regard to the equipment of privateers in our ports during the Crimean war, I enclose a copy of executive document No. 103, 1st session of the 33d Congress, which contains the correspondence between Mr. Marcy and Messrs. de Sartiges and Crampton, in which those expectations are set forth and answered.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton, Esq., &c., &c., &c.