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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 1788.]

Department of State, Washington, June 16, 1866.

Sir: I will thank you to bring to the attention of her Majesty’s government the case of Mr. Thomas E. Blackwell, who it is alleged is imprisoned in Clonmel jail, Tipperary, Ireland, on suspicion of sympathizing with Fenianism, and to request that he may be released, if upon investigation it is ascertained that there is not sufficient reason for his detention.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.