Mr. Seward to Mr. Clay

No. 191.]

Sir: I have received with great satisfaction your despatch No. 99, of the 6th of February, and its accompanying report of the proceedings at the banquet given by the merchants of Moscow to the American legation and the mayor of that city.

The details of this feast have been already indirectly published, and they have excited an influence favorable to the present growth of friendship towards Russia, which is even now a unanimous sentiment of the American people.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Cassius M. Clay, Esq., &c., &c., &c.