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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, February 1, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 20th ultimo, asking, on behalf of her Majesty’s government, for information as to the grounds of the seizure of the schooner Etta, owned by Messrs. G. Renouard & Co., of Nassau, at New York, in the autumn of last year. I have the honor to inform your lordship that I have referred the matter to the proper department.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your lordship’s obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.