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. 1077.]

Department of State, Washington, August 26, 1864.

Sir: In a letter to this department of the 12th instant Mr. Wilson, the secretary of legation at London, gives an account of certain proceedings with reference to the late insurgent steamer Georgia, and particularly of an intimation given to the Portuguese minister, at London, to the effect that the Georgia, having been sold in a neutral port, would be a lawful prize to a United States cruiser. The proceedings referred to are approved by the department.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.