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 23, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th instant, calling attention to an error occurring in the report of Rear-Admiral Bell relative to two apprentices alleged to have been shipped on board the United States ship St. Mary’s, at Valparaiso, and in reply to inform your lordship that I have transmitted a copy thereof to the Secretary of the Navy.

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.