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, March 14, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 7th instant, enclosing a copy of a despatch from his excellency the governor general of Canada, in regard to the steps taken by the authorities under his control to guard against the steamer Georgiana getting into the hands of parties hostile to the United States.

I will thank you to express to his excellency the satisfaction with which this government views his prompt and friendly action in the matter.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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