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 18, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 10th instant, informing me, at the instance of Earl Russell, that the answer of this government in regard to the case of Hardcastle was entirely unsatisfactory to that of her Majesty’s, and that her Majesty’s government reserve and do not abandon their claim to compensation for the death of that person. In reply, I have the honor to inform you that it will receive my attention.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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