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

Her Majesty’s Treasury to Laird Brothers.

Treasury Chambers, February 2, 1864.

Gentlemen: In reply to your further letter of 25th ultimo, I am desired by the lords commissioners of her Majesty’s treasury to acquaint you that her Majesty’s government cannot permit the iron-clad vessels built in your yard, and now under seizure, to be completed.

I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

GEO. A. HAMILTON.

Messrs. Laird Brothers, Birkenhead Iron Works, Birkenhead.