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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley.

Department of State, Washington, September 10, 1864.

Sir: Referring to your note of the 31st ultimo, in relation to the case of the British sloop Racer, I have the honor to inform you that a letter of the 7th instant upon the subject has been received from the Secretary of the Navy, in which that officer states that Rear-Admiral Dahlgren will be instructed to make a full report to that department of all the facts relating to the case, which, when received here, will at once be communicated to you.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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