Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.
Sir: With reference to the note which I had the honor to address to you on the 23d of December last, and to the answer which you were so good as to make to it, on the 20th of January last, I beg leave to transmit to you, with this note, a box which has been sent to me by her Majesty’s government, and which contains one of the cannon balls fired at the Margaret and Jessie by the United States ship Rhode Island, together with the piece of iron struck by it.
In pursuance of instructions which I have received from her Majesty’s government, I take this opportunity of pressing the United States government for a decision in the case of the Margaret and Jessie and of expressing the regret of her Majesty’s government that the case has not already been satisfactorily disposed of.
I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.