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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 761.]

Department of State, Washington, November 16, 1863.

Sir: I enclose a copy of executive document No. 103, 1st session 33d Congress, which contains the correspondence between Mr. Marcy and the ministers of Great Britain and France here, at the opening of the Crimean war. Your attention is particularly invited to that part of the correspondence which relates to the expectations of those governments in regard to the equipment of privateers in this country.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.