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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 840.]

Department of State, Washington, February 8, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch of the 22d ultimo, (No. 583,) enclosing a letter of the 6th of November, which was addressed to you by Charles Jones, esq., relating to the imprisonment of Mr. Mansfield, our consul at Tobaseo, by the French authorities there, has been received. I have sent a copy of Mr. Jones’s letter to Mr. Dayton, who has been instructed to request the release of Mr. Mansfield, and an explanation of the proceedings against him.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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