Letter

Charles Francis Adams to Right Honorable Earl Russell, September 5, 1865

Author

Charles Francis Adams

Recipient

Right Honorable Earl Russell

Date

September 5, 1865

Type

Letter

Language

English

Mr. Adams to Earl Russell

Legation oF the United States, London, September 5, 1865.

My Lord: I have the honor to inform you that by a despatch of the 5th of August, received by the Secretary of State at Washington from the United States consulate at Havana, it would appear that from the 28th to the 30th of July last, a cargo of four hundred negroes from Africa was landed at La Ensenada de Cochinas, a place about fifty miles to the westward of Cienfuegos. It is also stated that Mr. Bunch, her Majesty’s consul general, who did not appear to have been apprised of the fact, on being informed of it, promised to call the attention of the captain general to it.

I am directed by the Secretary of State to make this statement known to your lordship. I pray your lordship to accept the assurances of the highest consideration, &c.

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

Right Honorable Earl Russell, &c.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C.