Mr. Seward to Mr. Dickinson.
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 120, of the 7th ultimo, containing a note addressed to you by the minister for foreign affairs, on the subject of some unlawful expeditions which are reported by some papers to be forming in the United States, with intention to conquer Central America, and your reply thereto, very properly doubting the correctness of the report. Your proceedings are approved.
This department is not aware of anything transpiring in this country which could have given origin to the report. Nothing of the kind has been seen or heard of here; and you are authorized to declare it entirely groundless.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
A. B. Dickinson, Esq., &c., &c., &c.