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, October 25, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 20th instant, relative to the alleged capture of the Night Hawk, and the detention of her crew as prisoners; and, in reply, to inform you that I have transmitted a copy thereof to the Secretary of the Navy, who has been requested to investigate the case, with a view to the adoption of such proceedings as the result may call for.

Accept, sir, a renewed assurance of my high consideration,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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