Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.
My Dear Sir: Another week has passed, and the British subjects taken on board British vessels seized for breach of blockade are still in prison. I must beg you to look back to my letter of the 9th, and I must express a hope that you will at least enable me to inform her Majesty’s government, by the mail of to-morrow, that the five men lately belonging to the Don, who have been so long confined in the Ludlow street jail, have at last been set free.
Believe me to be, my dear sir, your very faithful, humble servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.