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. Koerner.

No. 91.]

Department of State, Washington, May 17, 1864.

Sir:Herewith you will receive a transcript of a despatch to this department from Mr. Savage, vice-consul general of the United States at Havana, dated the 29th ultimo, relative to the arrival at Matanzas of three escaped convicts from the Tortugas, and their subsequent rendition to our authorities by order of the captain general of Cuba. You will lose no time in bringing this gratifying fact to the notice of her Catholic Majesty’s government, and in expressing the satisfaction with which the friendly conduct of the captain general on the occasion referred to is regarded by the government of the United States.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Gustavus Koerner, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Madrid.