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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 950.]

Department of State, Washington, May 18, 1861.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 27th of April, together with the reports of debates which have occurred in the House of Lords and in the House of Commons, concerning the case of the Tuscaloosa. I observe with much pleasure that the ministry have successfully vindicated the proceedings which they adopted in that case, for the purpose of maintaining the neutrality which her Majesty so unequivocally, though prematurely proclaimed at the beginning of our civil war.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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