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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 828.]

Department of State, Washington, February 2, 1864.

Sir: I transmit herewith, for your further information on the subject, a copy of a memorandum of this date, and of the paper therein referred to, relative to the examination of Drs. Almon and Smith and Mr. A. Keith, jr., charged with having obstructed the execution of a warrant for the arrest of Wade and others, of the pirates engaged in the Chesapeake affair.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles F. Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

[The enclosures referred to will be found among correspondence with the British legation, in this volume.]