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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Bigelow

No. 99.]

Department of State, Washington, April 4, 1865.

Sir: I have received your despatch No. 60, of the 17th instant, relative to the refusal of the French government to permit Mr. Hammond, agent of the American Emigration Company at Havre, to contract for the transport of emigrants through Havre to the United States. You may ask for explanations from Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys, but you will not make it a subject of protest or remonstrance without instructions.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD

John Bigelow, Esq., &c., &c., &c.