No. 385.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Valera.

Sir: I have the honor to say that, as appears by letters from the Departments of Justice and the Treasury, the schooner Winfield, reported stolen, has been found adrift near Green Key. The vessel broke from her anchor and was blown to sea with no one on board.

The Secretary of the Treasury has apprised me that telegraphic instructions have been sent to the collectors of customs at New Orleans, Baltimore, and Savannah to prevent the threatened violation of the neutrality laws, of which you received information from Spanish consuls at those ports.

Accept, &c.,

FRED’K T. FRELINGHUYSEN.