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, July 20, 1864.

My Lord: I have to acknowledge, with many thanks to his excellency the administrator of the government of New Brunswick, and to your lordship, the receipt of your communication of this date in regard to the reputed attempt to organize a force in the neighborhood of St. John, New Brunswick, to commit depredations on the frontier of Maine.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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