Mr.Morris, our minister resident at Constantinople, will be informed of the particulars set forth in your dispatch, and of the approval of your proceedings.
Rear-Admiral Goldsborough has been instructed to send a ship-of-war to your port.

I am, sir, your most obedient servant, W.H.

SEWARD.
Meanwhile the Wizard gunboat had been relieved by the Assurance,--a larger vessel,--the commander of which (Pym) had an American wife, and perhaps had been influenced by her, and certainly shared her sympathy with the Cretans.

I showed him Seward's dispatch and fired him with the desire of distinguishing himself by taking the initiative in the work of humanity.

I then made the strongest possible appeal to Dickson, who had by this time come through his own informants to recognize the atrocity of Mustapha's plan of campaign, to order Pym to obey his good impulse; and Pym at the same time informed me that he intended to go, with Dickson's order if possible, but in any case to go.