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. 1097.]

Department of State, Washington, September 20, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch of the 18th of August, No. 761, has been received. It is accompanied by a copy of a note of Earl Russell, which announces a new regulation in admiralty, forbidding all transfer or dismantling of belligerent vessels in British ports. The subject will receive due consideration. In the mean time we hear with much satisfaction that the Georgia has been captured by the Niagara, and has arrived as a prize at Hampton Roads, whence she proceeded to Boston.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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