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, December 19, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to communicate, for your information, a copy of an instruction of this department of the 6th instant, and of its enclosures, addressed to Mr. Adams, United States minister at London,^* on the subject of certain intercepted correspondence of insurgents residing in Canada.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD,

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

1. [See instruction, No. 1183, to Mr. Adams.]