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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton

No. 597.]

Department of State, Washington, July 2, 1864.

Sir: I have received your despatch of the 13th of June, No. 488, which informs me of the arrival of the Alabama at Cherbourg, and which is accompanied by the protest you delivered on that occasion to M. Drouyn de l’Huys. This proceeding is approved. I have laid your communication before my colleague, the head of the Navy Department, and I shall be able, before the departure of the mail on Monday next, to give you information of his views in regard to naval demonstrations in European waters.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton Esq., &c., &c., &c.