Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of to-day, communicating to me the recent intelligence which has reached you concerning the steamer Chesapeake.
[Page 406]I accept with entire satisfaction the disavowal you so promptly make of any assumption of authority by officers of the United States within the territorial jurisdiction of her Majesty’s province of Nova Scotia; and I will lose no time in communicating to the administrator of the government of that province the suggestions which your note contains respecting the disposal of the Chesapeake and the three men found on board. His excellency will certainly consider those suggestions with a desire to fulfil to the utmost the obligations of international comity and good neighborhood.
I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.