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, January 4, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge, with much satisfaction, the receipt of your note of the 28th ultimo, transmitting a copy of a despatch addressed to you by the governor general of Canada, from which it appears that his excellency will cause an investigation to be made in regard to the supposed employment, for purposes hostile to the United States, of two vessels now in course of construction at Montreal.

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

F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary.

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