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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Marsh

No. 60.]

Department of State, Washington, November 18, 1862.

Sir: Your despatch No. 55, dated October 25, and relating to the proposal of Colonel Cattabene, which formed the subject of your previous despatch, has been received. I have already acquainted you, in an instruction of this date, with the decision of the Secretary of War, made on the offer of Colonel Cattabene as communicated in your first despatch concerning it; and I have now to inform you that the proposal, in the more definite shape in which it appears in your late communication, will be submitted anew for the consideration of the Secretary of War.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

George P. Marsh, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Turin.