Letter
Viscount Monck to J. Hume Burnley, March 28, 1865
Viscount Monck to Mr. Burnley
Quebec, March 28, 1865.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 22d instant, and its enclosures, containing information given by Mr. ——, of ——, Canada West, relative to alleged projected raids from Canada into the United States.
In reply, I have the honor to state that the information contained in Mr. ——‘s letters had already been communicated to the Canadian government, and that a special agent had been sent to Ampréor to investigate the truth of his statements.
I have not yet received his report, but I shall not fail to communicate it to you should any grounds appear to exist for attaching credit to Mr. ——‘s allegations.
I have, &c.,
MONCK.
J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C
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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 First Session Thirty-ninth C.