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

Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward

No. 1051.]

Legation of the United States, london, September 21, 1865.

Sir: In connexion with my despatch No. 1036, of the 7th of September, I now have the honor to transmit a copy of Lord Russell’s note of the 10th, acknowledging mine of the 5th relative to the slave trade in Cuba. I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

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

Earl Russell to Mr. Adams

Foreign Office, September 15, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge, with thanks the receipt of jour note of the 5th instant, stating that the government of the United States has been apprised of the landing of a cargo of four hundred African negroes, between the 28th and 30th of July last, at La Enseñada de Cochinas, to the westward of Cienfaegos, in the island of Cuba, and that Mr. Bunch, her Majesty’s judge at the Havana, intended to call the attention of the captain general to this matter.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

RUSSELL.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq.&c.,&c.,&c.