"I found my family all in good health and spirits, and after spending about two hours with them and other friends at my house, left for Washington, which place I reached soon after nine o'clock on Saturday morning.... During my absence in Europe some parties here, acting, as I believe, in concert with enemies in England, have been doing all in their power to injure me on both sides of the Atlantic, but without success." And in another letter he says: "I have obtained a large amount of information about this wicked conspiracy to injure me in Europe and in this country. Mr. Seward and other members of the government have acted in the most honorable manner, and defeated the plans of wicked men." To Mr. Chase he wrote: "I lose no time in acquainting you with the circumstances and of laying the correspondence before you. Pray tell me if they are satisfactory to you. I do not know by whom, or where, the goods were arrested." As far as it is possible to ascertain at this late day he had included in the correspondence forwarded to Washington an article which had been written in New York on January 18th, and said to have been shown to the New York press, but never published. It appeared in the London _Herald_ of February 4th, and was signed "Manhattan." There were also letters in the London _Standard_ and _Herald_ of March 29th dated New York, March 11th, stating that the Grand Jury had met and presented a bill of indictment against Cyrus W. Field for "treasonable proceedings with the public enemy." In a letter written on April 17th are these few words: "The editor of the London _Herald_ has made an apology in his paper, as I am informed by telegrams from Halifax." And again: "I have not yet been able to ascertain who made the complaint but no bill was found, and the Grand Jury have adjourned." One of the Grand Jury writes: "I was a member of the United States Grand Jury in 1862. I remember that a complaint was brought to the attention of the jury.... I remember that some testimony was submitted to the jury, but upon the recommendation of the district attorney the matter was dropped." Mr. Bates wrote to him: "ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S OFFICE, "WASHINGTON, D. C., _April 15, 1862_. "CYRUS W. FIELD, Esq., New York: "_Dear Sir_,--Your note of yesterday is just received, and upon reading the enclosures the affair (as far as it concerns you personally) looks rather like a stupid, practical joke. "Could the scheme have been meant as a blow at your business in Europe? "Very respectfully yours, "EDWARD BATES." When on April 23d he received two more letters in the same handwriting, one postmarked Springfield, Ill., April 18th, and the other Nashville, Tenn., April 19th, and evidently designed "to entrap him," he wrote at once to Mr. Chase: