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 18, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 6th instant, relative to the proceedings before the prize court of New Orleans in the cases of the British vessels Science, Sir William Peel, Dashing Wave, and Volante, which were captured on the Rio Grande. With regard to the action of the district attorney of the United States in prosecuting an appeal in these several cases, and against which proceeding her Majesty’s government have instructed you to remonstrate, I have the honor to state, in reply, that the subject will receive attentive consideration.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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