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

No. 9.

The Secretary to the Admiralty to Mr. Hammond.—(Received January 23.)

Admiralty, January 22, 1864

Sir: With reference to your letter of yesterday, I am commanded by my lords commissioners of the admiralty to state, for the information of Earl Russell, that Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker will be called upon to report on the points therein mentioned with regard to the case of the British vessel Saxon, captured at Angra Pequena by the United States steamer Vanderbilt.

My lords would suggest that information on this subject might also be obtained from the governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

I am, &c.,

C. PAGET.