Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: Edwin G. Eastman, esq., the United States consul at Queenstown, Cork, in a despatch of the 14th ultimo, has informed me of the friendly spirit evinced by Rear-Admiral Sir Lewis T. Jones, K. C. B., commander-in-chief of her Majesty’s naval forces at Queenstown, towards this government in his efforts to prevent the embarkation of a rebel crew and some officers on board a vessel off the port of Queenstown, supposed to have been the Southerner. I will thank you to convey to her Majesty’s government, and to the rear-admiral, a suitable expression of the acknowledgments of the President for so signal a service.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.