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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington May 24, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to enclose a copy of resolutions, the fourth and fifth, of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, which were unanimously adopted by a meeting held on the 5th instant, the former relating to the proceedings of the judicial magistrate who had custody of the steamer Chesapeake at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in causing that vessel and her cargo to be restored to her rightful owners, and the latter to the courtesy of the Messrs. Cunard and Company in furnishing to the United States steamer Ella and Anna the coal necessary to enable her to pursue and recapture the Chesapeake. Concurring in the spirit of these resolutions, I should be gratified if your lordship could find it convenient to communicate them respectively through the appropriate channels to the parties referred to therein.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, my lord, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.

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4th. Resolved, That this chamber respectfully acknowledges the upright and honorable proceedings of the judicial magistrate having custody of the steamer Chesapeake, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in causing that vessel and her cargo to be restored to her rightful owners.

5th. Resolved, That this chamber desires to recognize the act of international courtesy on the part of Messrs. S. Cunard and Company, in furnishing coal on a sudden emergency at Halifax, to enable the Ella and Anna to continue the pursuit of the Chesapeake, and finally to accomplish her recapture.