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 12, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 2d instant, transmitting further evidence of the nationality of the prisoners in the case of the Night Hawk; and in reply, to inform your lordship that I have transmitted a copy thereof to the Secretary of the Navy recalling his attention to the case with a view to the adoption of such proceedings as the result may warrant, returning the original affidavit.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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