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, June 17, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 13th instant, transmitting a copy of a despatch from the governor of the Bahama islands, stating that, with reference to the reported fitting out of a vessel at Nassau, N. P., to cruise against the shipping of the United States, the result of inquiries which he has made convinces him that no vessel is fitting out there for that purpose, and to thank you for your prompt attention to the matter.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your lordship’s obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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