Letter

Tilley to The High Sheriff , St. John, February 7, 1865

Author

Tilley

Recipient

The High Sheriff , St. John

Date

February 7, 1865

Type

Letter

Language

English

Mr. Tilley to the High Sheriff

Provincial Secretary’s Office, Fredericton, N. B., February 7, 1865.

Sir: I am directed by his excellency the lieutenant governor to inform you that his excellency has received intimation, from her Majesty’s legation at Washington, that the consul for the United States of America at St. John has intimated to you that some of the persons implicated in the seizure of the Chesapeake are now in St. John.

I am directed by his excellency to instruct you, should this be the case, to spare no pains to secure execution of the warrant of Mr. Justice Parker, of the 1st of March, 1864, now in your hands, by the immediate apprehension of the parties referred to, and you will take, with secrecy and despatch, all the measures necessary to effect this object.

In the event of the capture of any of the parties, you will report the fact at once to his excellency by telegraph.

I have, &c.,

S. L. TILLEY.

The High Sheriff, St. John.

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.