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No. 4.

Mr. Hammond to Messrs. Sinclair & Co.

Foreign Office, January 6, 1864.

Gentlemen: I am directed by Earl Russell to acknowledge the receipt of [Page 264] your letter of the 4th instant, respecting the seizure of the bark Saxon by the United States steamer Vanderbilt; and I am to inform you that this case is under the consideration of her Majesty’s government.

I am, &c.,

E.HAMMOND.