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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley.

Department of State, Washington, September 8, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 4th instant in regard to obstacles in the way of her Majesty’s consul visiting the receiving-ship at the Brooklyn navy yard with a view to the collection of evidence as to the enlistment of British subjects, and in reply to inform you that I have invited the particular attention of the Secretary of the Navy to the matter.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c, &c., &c.