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. 602.]

Department of State, Washington, July 11, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch of June 22, No. 493, has been received. I have communicated to the Secretary of the Navy the information it contains concerning the naval engagement between the Kearsarge and the Alabama.

I have also imparted that information in preparing an instruction to Mr. Adams for a representation which he is expected to submit to the British government. I give you confidentially a copy of that instruction.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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