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, July 8, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 5th instant, and to inform you that I have lost no time in asking the governor of Newfoundland to enable me to furnish you with the information which you desire to obtain respecting a statement that three pardoned criminals had been sent from St. John to Boston.

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

LYONS.

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