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

Mr. Howard to Mr. Jackson.

St. John, December 9, 1863.

You are instructed by Secretary Seward to use your best efforts to secure detention of Chesapeake and arrest of criminals. I now learn that she will proceed to Shelburne.

J. Q. HOWARD, United States Consul.