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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, March 28, 1863.

My Dear Lord Lyons: I have the honor to acknowledge with great satisfction the receipt of your note of yesterday, enclosing a copy of an order on the subject of intercourse with blockaded ports, which has been addressed by Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne to the officers in command of her Majesty’s ships under his orders.

I am, my dear Lord Lyons, very truly, yours,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.