Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.
My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 8th instant, in which you are instructed by her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs to call the attention of thi3 government to its accompanying despatches and their enclosures, addressed by the lieutenant governor of New Brunswick to her Majesty’s secretary of state for the colonies, relative to some shot fired from a battery in course of construction on an island near East-port, Maine, which had fallen upon the British territory at Campobello. In reply, I have the honor to inform your lordship that a copy of the papers referred to has been submitted to the Secretary of War, with a view to an immediate investigation of the matter.
I have the honor to be, with high consideration, my lord, your obedient servant,
Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.