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. Adams.

No. 1020.]

Department of State, Washington, July 2, 1864.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 17th ultimo No. 723, enclosing two printed copies of instructions by her Majesty’s government to governors of colonies, respecting the treatment of prizes captured by federal or by the so-called confederate cruisers if brought into British waters, with the printed copy of a return of the number and tonnage of American vessels sold to British subjects in the year 1863, for which I give you my thanks.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWAED.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.