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. Morris.

No. 100.]

Department of State, Washington, December 18, 1865.

Sir: For your information, I enclose herewith a transcript of an instruction of the 14th instant,^* addressed to the consul general of the United States at Alexandria, upon the subject of the apprehended renewal of the expedition from that place of Nubian negroes to be engaged on the part of France in the war waged between that country and Mexico. A copy of the assurance of Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys, to which reference is made therein, is also herewith enclosed.

Should circumstances require it, you will communicate a copy of the instruction to Mr. Hale to the Sultan’s government.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

E. Joy Morris, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

1. For enclosure see correspondence with the consul general of the United States at Alexandria, Egypt.