Mr. Van Limburg to Mr. Seward
Sir: I have had the honor to receive your obliging note, dated the 19th of this month, in answer to my letter of the 15th, relative to complaints which many of our captains and owners have made to the royal government on the conduct of the kidnappers and crimps who came on board their vessels in the port of New York. I will hasten to communicate it to the minister of foreign affairs, and, saving ulterior instructions from him, I now make it my duty to thank you for the promptitude with which you have met my inquiry, and lent your good offices to the end that efficient measures may, in future, guarantee our vessels from intrusion, and from the kidnapping in question.
I have the honor, sir, to repeat to you the assurances of my high consideration.
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, &c., &c., &c.