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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, January 14, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 31st ultimo, informing me of the measures adopted by the governor general of Canada to prevent the manufacture in that province of “Greek fire,” to be used by the insurgents in their attempts to burn the northern cities of the United States, and in reply to express my satisfaction with the action of Viscount Monck in the matter.

Accept, sir, a renewed assurance of my high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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