Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

Lord Lyons to Mr Seward.

Washington, March 16, 1863.

Sir: I beg to express my thanks to you for the note dated the 14th instant, with which you have done me the honor to send to me a copy of an order addressed by the Secretary of the Navy to Rear-Admiral Wilkes, with regard to British mail packets. I shall have great satisfaction in communicating to her Majesty’s government the order which the Secretary of the Navy has so readily issued.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient humble servant,

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.