Letter
GUNNISON, Vice-Consul to the Provincial Secretary, December 10, 1863
[Enclosure 1 in No. 5.]
Mr. Gunnison to the Provincial Secretary.
Consulate of the United States, Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 10, 1863.
Sir: Information having been received at this consulate of the seizure of the American steamer Chesapeake by a band of pirates, and murder having been committed, I beg to request of the government, should such vessel (or any one connected with her) enter any of the ports of this province, that she be detained, and the parties implicated arrested and held to answer any charges that may be preferred against them.
I have, &c.,
N. GUNNISON, Vice-Consul.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.