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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Harvey.

No. 138.]

Department of State, Washington , May 26, 1864.

Sir: Your despatches Nos. 269, 270, 271, 272, and 273, dated respectively the 7th, 12th, 15th, 26th, and 30th of April, have been received.

The reasons you have presented in your No. 269 for not agitating at the present time the subject of a reconsideration of the policy adopted by the Portuguese government in regard to our civil strife are deemed satisfactory, and your course is consequently approved.

The attention of the Secretary of the Navy has been called to the complaints and suggestions contained in your Nos. 270 and 271.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

James E. Harvey, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Lisbon.