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

Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.

Washington, November 18, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 16th instant, relative to the two apprentices of the British bark Cuzco, and would beg leave to rectify a mistake in the names of the boys as given by Rear-Admiral Bell in his communcation to the Secretary of the Navy. Their real names, as given by Mr. Nicol, a copy of whose letter was forwarded to you in Mr. Burnley’s note of the 25th August, are Alfred Dewick and John Williams.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

J. HUME BURNLEY.

For LORD LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.