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, November 11, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to enclose a copy of a telegram of yesterday from Major General John J. Peck, in regard to the movements of the Georgiana. I will thank your lordship to notify his excellency Viscount Monck of its purport.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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

[Telegram.]

Mr. Peck to Mr. Seward.

Syracuse, New York, November 10, 1864.

To Secretary Seward.

Just from Buffalo. The Georgiana is near Port Colborne, twenty miles distant. She was lately purchased at Toronto, Canada West, for commercial purposes, and seventeen thousand dollars in gold paid. The price is far beyond her value, in the opinion of the best judges. This, in connexion with the fact that the business season is at an end, stamps the transaction with suspicion, and warrants the belief that she is intended for raiding operations.

JOHN J. PECK, Major General.