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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, February 18, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 15th instant, which is accompanied by a copy of a despatch and enclosures, received by you from the lieutenant governor of New Brunswick relative to the extradition of Braine and others, charged with the commission of piracy and murder on the United States steamer Chesapeake. I beg you to convey to the lieutenant governor the thanks of this government for the zeal manifested by him in adopting prompt measures for the arrest of the above-mentioned criminals.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.