Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.
Sir: With reference to your note of the 24th May last, and to my answer of the 6th ultimo, concerning resolutions passed by the Chamber of Commerce of New York, with respect to the affair of the Chesapeake, I am directed by her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs to inform you that he has caused a copy of those resolutions to be transmitted to the Colonial Department, with a request that the resolution in acknowledgment of the proceedings of the magistrate who had charge of the Chesapeake may be communicated to him. Her Majesty’s secretary of state has moreover caused to be transmitted to Sir Samuel Cunard a copy of the resolution on the subject of the assistance rendered by Messrs. Cunard & Co.’s agency at Halifax to the United States ship Ella and Annie.
I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
Hon. William H. Seward,&c., &c., &c.