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, February 11, 1864.

Sir: I had, the day before yesterday, the honor to speak to you on the subject of the note which I wrote to you on the 23d of last months asking for information respecting a military commission established at New York, before which it appeared that several British subjects were to be brought for examination, and possibly for trial.

You were so good as to repeat to me the information which you had given me on the 2d of this month, that you had referred my note to the Secretary of War, but you added that you were not in a position to say more than this.

I have, as I had the honor to state to you in person this morning, strong reasons for desiring to obtain without delay answers to the questions which I ventured to ask in the note, and I trust, therefore, that you will excuse my again calling your attention to it.

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

LYONS.

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