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, June 17, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday, transmitting to me an extract from a despatch from the United States consul at Nassau, and copies of correspondence enclosed in it, relative to the anchoring of the gunboat Rhode Island in Mathewtown roadstead without any previous communication with the local authorities.

I will lose no time in directing the attention of her Majesty’s government and of the governor of the Bahama islands to the contents of your note.

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

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward. Secretary of State, &c., &c.