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

Mr. F. W. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, April 8, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 1st instant, which is accompanied by a copy of a despatch addressed to you by his excellency the lieutenant governor of Bermuda, in response to the warnings of designs of the insurgents contemplating violations of the neutrality of British ports, contained in my communications to you of the 14th of January and 14th of February last, in regard, respectively, to the movements of the Ajax and the Shenandoah, or Sea King.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD, By F. W. SEWARD, Assistant Secretary.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.