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

Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.

Washington, March 25, 1864.

Sir: I am directed by her Majesty’s government to ask permission for a British man-of-war to take Mr. Crawford, her Majesty’s consul general at Havana, to Charleston or Wilmington, in order that he may proceed to Richmond to remonstrate with the so-styled confederate authorities at that place concerning certain grievances relative to British subjects, and to confederate agents in Great Britain.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.