Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

[691] *Commandant Newton, United States Navy, to Mr. Preston, Secretary of the Navy.

Commandant’s Office,
Navy-Yard, Pensacola, August 31, 1819.

Sir: Having sent all the available force at my command to carry out the instructions received from the Navy Department under date of the 9th instant, addressed to Commodore Parker of the home squadron, but in his absence opened by me, agreeably to his request, I have the honor to forward to the Department herewith, for its information, copies of all the orders issued by me to the commanding officers of the several vessels which I have dispatched from this station, on the service to which the instructions to Commodore Parker related.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN THOMAS NEWTON,
Commandant,

Hon. Wm. Ballard Preston,
Secretary of the Navy, Washington.