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, October 10, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 28th ultimo, in relation to. the proposed temporary increase of the observing force of the United States on the American lakes, and in reply to inform you that I have transmitted a copy of the correspondence on the subject to Mr. Adams, the ministerof the United States at London, who has been requested to make explanations to Earl Russell, which it is not doubted will prove satisfactory to her Majesty’s government.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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