Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward.

No. 697.]

Sir: By intelligence received from Mr. Dudley, as well as from the public newspapers, I learn that the steamer Georgia is advertised for sale at Liverpool.

Meanwhile the British subjects enlisted as seamen are permitted to remain with their families at that place with impunity. It is only the poor Irishmen taken into the Kearsarge at Queenstown who have been passed through the formality of a conviction in the courts for an offence against neutrality.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.