Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams
Sir: By a despatch of the 5th instant, received from the United States con sulate at Havana, this department is informed that from the 28th to the 30th of July last a cargo of four hundred negroes from Africa was landed at La Cochinos, westward of Cienfuegos about fifty miles; that Mr. Bunch, the British consul general at Havana, did not seem to have any knowledge of this circumstance, but promised, however, to call the attention of the captain general to the fact.
You will be pleased to make this statement known to Earl Russell.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.