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

Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward.

No. 669.]

Legation of the United States, London, April 22, 1864.

Sir: I have received from Mr. Burlingame, at Pekin, by way of Irkutsk, a telegram dated the 24th of March, to the following effect:

“Inform them at Washington that the Chinese government, on my demand, has issued a proclamation forbidding the use of the waters and harbors of China to the confederate cruisers, as well as to furnish them any supplies.”

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.