Mr. Adams to Mr.
Seward.
No. 1107.]
Legation of the United States,
London,
December 14, 1865.
Sir: In accordance with the desire expressed in
your despatches 1586, 1596, and 1597, I communicated to Lord Clarendon
the copies of Mr. Hibbard’s note on the slave trade, and of Mr. Savage’s
on the same subject. Copies of my notes and of his lordship’s
acknowledgment are transmitted.
I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.
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Mr. Adams to the Earl of Clarendon.
Legation of the United
States, London,
December 5, 1865.
My Lord: I have the honor to transmit a
copy of a communication, without date, addressed to the Secretary of
State of the United States, by Mr. Hibbard, arbitrator of the mixed
court at Sierra Leone, giving his views of the most effectual mode
of suppressing the slave trade. I am instructed to submit the same
for the consideration of her Majesty’s government.
I pray your lordship to accept, &c.,
&c.
Right Honorable the Earl of Clarendon, &c.,
&c., &c.
Mr. Adams to the Earl of Clarendon.
Legation Of the United
States, London,
December 5, 1865.
My Lord: I am directed by my government to
transmit to your lordship, for the information of her Majesty’s
government, copies of two letters addressed to Mr. Seward by the
vice-consul general of the United States at Havana. One bears date
the 23d of September, the other the 4th of November. Both of them
relate to the suppression of the slave trade in the island of
Cuba.
I pray your lordship to accept, &c.,
&c.
Right Honorable the Earl of Clarendon,
&c., &c., &c.
The Earl of Clarendon to
Mr. Adams.
Foreign Office,
December 9, 1865.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of the two letters which you addressed to me on the 5th
instant; one enclosing copies of two despatches from the vice-consul
general of the United States at Havana, on the subject of the Cuban
slave trade, and the other enclosing a copy of a communication
addressed by Mr. Hibbard, the United States arbitrator in the mixed
commission court at Sierra Leone to his government, giving his views
of the most effectual mode of suppressing the slave trade, and of
reclaiming Africa.
I have to request that you will be good enough to convey to Mr.
Seward the thanks of her Majesty’s government for these
communications.
I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your
most obedient, humble servant,
C. F. Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.
