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. 472.]

Department of State, Washington, February 8, 1864.

Sir: Referring to my Nos. 461 and 465, respecting the imprisonment of Mr. J. H. Mansfield, the United States consul at Tabasco, I transmit herewith a copy of a letter of the 6th of November last, addressed by Charles Jones, esq., to Mr. Adams, our minister at London, upon the subject, I will thank you to ask for the release of Mr. Mansfield, that he may be permitted to proceed to the United States, and you will also request explanations of the proceedings against him.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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