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

Mr. Burnley to Mr. Seward.

Washington, October 4, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 1st, relative to an increase of the American naval force in the Canadian lakes, and of its enclosures, and beg to state, in reply, that I have to-day forwarded copies to her Majesty’s government.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

J. HUME BURNLEY.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.