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

Mr. Hunter to Sir F. Bruce

Department of State, Washington, April 28, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 22d instant, enclosing a copy of a despatch addressed by Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope to the secretary of the admiralty, relative to the threatened destruction of United States ships on the coast of the Pacific, and to express my gratification at the hearty disposition evinced by her Majesty’s officers on that coast to prevent an execution of the design.

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

W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary.

Hon. Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, &c., &c., &c.