January 16, 1872
To the Senate of the United States:
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 16th of May last, calling for papers, correspondence, and information relating to the case of the ship Hudson and schooner Washington ,* I transmit reports from the Secretaries of State and of the Navy and the papers by which they were accompanied.
U. S. GRANT.
*Seized by British authorities at the Falkland Islands in 1854,
Ulysses S. Grant, Special Message Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/204503