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

Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.

Washington, January 18, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the day before yesterday’s date, relative to the United States schooner J. L. Gerrity, which was seized by passengers on board and carried to Belize. I have lost no time in forwarding a copy of it to her Majesty’s government.

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

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.