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

Mr. F. W. Seward to Mr. Burnley.

Department of State, Washington, September 2, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Lyons’s communication of the 25th ultimo, in regard to the cases of two apprentices alleged to have deserted from the British bark Cuzco, and to have been taken on board the United States ship-of-war St. Mary’s. In reply I have the honor to inform you that I have transmitted a copy of that communication to the Secretary of the Navy, with a view to procuring the desired information.

F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary,

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c. &c.