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 30, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to enclose, for the information of her Majesty’s government, a copy of depositions which were communicated to me on the 22d instant, relative to the proceedings of Jacob Thompson, an insurgent enemy of the United States in Canada, and to those of one Holcombe and others, in organizing, aiding, and abetting hostile expeditions against the United States. I will thank you to communicate the information to his excellency Viscount Monck, but I must request you to cause the names of the deponents to be regarded as confidential.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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