Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Burnley to Mr. Seward

Washington, April 3, 1865.

My Dear Sir: Viscount Monck informs me by telegraph that the Canadian courts had decided that the St. Albans raiders could not be surrendered, and they were consequently discharged.

It appears, however, that the governor general directed their immediate rearrest on a charge of violating the Queen’s neutrality.

Believe me to remain, my dear sir, yours, very faithfully,

J. HUME BURNLEY.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.