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

No. 19.

Earl Russell to Lord Lyons.

Foreign Office, February 11, 1864.

My Lord: I have to state to you that I approve the note which you addressed to Mr. Seward on the 19th of January, a copy of which is enclosed in your lordship s despatch, No. 51, of the 26th ultimo, calling upon the government of the United States to investigate the circumstances under which Mr. James Gray, mate of the British bark Saxon, was killed by Lieutenant Donohoe, of the United States ship Vanderbilt.

I am, &c.

RUSSELL,