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 20, 1864.

Sir: It has been represented to her Majesty’s government that a schooner named the “Etta,” owned by Messieurs G. Renonard & Company, of Nassau, was seized at New York by the United States authorities in the autumn of last year; and her Majesty’s government have directed me to ask you to inform me as to the grounds of the seizure, and as to the steps taken by the United States government to establish its legality against the British owners who claim the vessel.

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

LYONS.

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