Mr Seward to Mr Motley.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 14th instant, No. 215. Your review of the uneasy situation in which the Austrian empire has been left by its recent and disastrous military experience, is singularly graphic and comprehensive. The success of the imperial government in its entire work of reorganization seems to me to depend in a very great degree upon the success which it may obtain in the efforts to satisfy and reconcile Hungary. The telegraph informs us that those efforts are now the occupation of the Emperor.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
J. Lothrop Motley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.