Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams
Sir. I have received a despatch of the 3d ultimo from Mr. Robinson, our consul at Port Mahon, in which it is stated that on the 1st of that month, which [Page 111] was a Spanish “fiesta,” the ships in the harbor, as usual, displayed their national flags and signals, but that the master of the Linda Florida, Captain Daniel Hallowell, seized the occasion to insult the United States by hoisting upon his vessel, which was British registered and manned, in addition to the flags and signals of England, the flags of the insurgents against the United States. I will thank you to call the attention of her Majesty’s government to this insult.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams. Esq., &c., &c., &c.