Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

[Extract.]

Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward

No. 1028.]

Legation of the United States, London, August 10, 1865.

SIR: * * * * * * * * *

In obedience to the instructions contained in No. 1481, of the 20th of July, I have addressed a note to Lord Russell, demanding the restoration of the schooner St. Mary’s, remaining at Anotta bay, in the island of Jamaica. Owing to the absence of the necessary dates, it was difficult to prepare a statement of facts in any other than a tentative manner, and still more so to rest an argument upon them. The case, however, appears to be tolerably clear.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

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