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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, November 14, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 12th instant, transmitting a copy of a despatch addressed to you by the governor general of Canada, relative to the extradition of William H. Hutchinson, one of the St. Albans marauders recently captured in Montreal. In reply, I have the honor to state that the information contained therein has been communicated to the proper authorities.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.