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 26, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday, and its accompaniments, relative to the case of Mr. James McHugh, a prisoner at Fort Lafayette, and to inform you that a copy of the papers has been communicated to Major General John A. Dix, at New York.

In compliance with your request, the original certificate which accompanied your note is herewith returned.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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