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

Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward

No. 413.]

Paris, February 5, 1864.

Sir: Immediately upon the reception of your despatch, No. 451, I called the attention of Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys to the fact of the imprisonment of J. H. Mansfield, consul at Tobasco, and asked the reasons therefor. He said that he was not at all in possession of the facts, nor did he know the grounds of his imprisonment, but he would make a memorandum of the case, and give me the necessary information at an early day.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WM. L. DAYTON.

Hon. William H. Seward Secretary of State, &c., &c., &c.