Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Sullivan.

No. 43.]

Department of State, Washington, May 13, 1868.

Sir: Your dispatch, without a number, (No. 59,) of March 22, has been received.

All further discussion of the questions growing out of the outrages inflicted upon the officers of the steamer R. R. Cuyler, alias El Rayo, may be deferred until this department shall have received information of the result of the trial of those accused of participation in those crimes.

You will be expected to furnish promptly information as to the energy with which the accusation has been prosecuted, and the fairness evinced by the tribunals which sit in judgment.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Peter J. Sullivan, Esq., &c., &c., &c.