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

[Extract.]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 951.]

Department of State, Washington, May 18, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch of the 28th of April, No. 672, has been received, together with copies of your correspondence with Earl Russell, on the subject of enlistments for the insurgent seamen in British ports; also reports of the judicial proceedings in the case of Rumble, who is implicated in these unlawful enlistments; as well as a report of similar proceedings in the case of the pirates of the Joseph L. Gerrity.

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I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

C. F. Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.