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

[By telegraph.]

Mr. Pruyn to Mr. Seward

No. 71.]

Legation of the United States in Japan, Kanagawa, Yokohama, October 30, 1863.

Sir: Government has asked the abandonment of this port, promising trade and friendship at Nagasaki and Hakodadi, and intimating that trade cannot continue at this port.

My colleagues desire this to be communicated to ministers of treaty powers at Washington.

Very respectfully,

ROBERT H. PRUYN, Minister Resident in Japan.

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