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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford.

No. 151.]

Department of State, Washington, November 19, 1864.

Sir:Your despatch of the 3d instant, No. 225, has been received. The report by the minister of finance which accompanies it, and which gives a statement of the commerce of Belgium with foreign countries, the features of which are presented in your despatch, affords gratifying evidence of the steadily increasing prosperity of Belgium. I have submitted your despatch and its accompaniments for perusal to the Secretary of the Treasury.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Henry L. Sanford, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Brussels.