Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 17th ultimo, relative to the suggestion that measures be adopted for the protection of cotton owned by British subjects residing in the insurrectionary States, which formed the subject of Lord Lyons’s note of the 11th of April last, in which his lordship had special reference to a claim of Miss Murray, on account of the alleged seizure by the United States military authorities in Mississippi of a quantity of cotton belonging to her. In reply, I have the honor to inform you that the attention of the Secretary of War has been recalled to the complaint of Miss Murray, with a view to ascertain his decision upon the subject. The suggestion first above mentioned is now under consideration.
I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,
J. Hume Burnley, Esq.,&c., &c., &c.