Mr. Seward to Mr. Motley
Sir: Your confidential despatch of the 17th of April, No. 161, has been received.
It is a matter of some relief that only so small a number of volunteers as six hundred have been gathered at Laybach, with a view to shipment from Trieste for Vera Cruz, and that the recruiting for that service is becoming very languid. It is to be hoped that a scheme obviously so unpopular in Austria will not be persisted in by the Emperor. My late communications leave no necessity for dwelling upon the subject at the present moment.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
J. Lothrop Motley, Esq., &c., &c., Vienna.