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, August 5, 1864.

My Lord: Referring to your note of the 11th of last month, relative to the appeal in the case of the steamer Pearl, I have the honor to inform your lordship, in reply, that the Attorney General will examine the facts, with a view to enable me to decide upon the propriety of dismissing the appeal, as soon as he shall have received the proper record.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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