Letter

Nathaniel Gunnison, Vice-consul to the Mayor of Halifax, December 19, 1863

[Enclosure 29 in No. 5.]

Mr. Gunnison to the Mayor of Halifax.

Sir: As it is evident, from what has just transpired on the Queen’s wharf, that the pirates of the Chesapeake cannot be arrested in this city, I therefore feel it incumbent on me to notify you that the United States government at present will not require the further services of the police of this city.

I have, &c.,

NATHANIEL GUNNISON, Vice-Consul.
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth 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 Second Session Thirty-eighth.