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, March 19, 1864

My Lord: I have the honor to recur to your two notes of the 5th instant, one of which relates to the detention of three of the crew of the British schooner Sallie, in jail at New York, and the other to that of the master and crew of the British schooner Sylvanus, at Fort Lafayette, and to inform your lordship that, at the recommendation of this department, the Secretary of the Navy has directed their discharge from custody.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, my lord, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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