Mr. Bigelow to Mr. Seward
Sir: In the course of an interview to-day with the minister of foreign affairs his excellency referred to reclamations made by our government of the arms and equipment of a fort in Texas, which had been bought by the Mexican [Page 398] General Mejia from certain confederate officers after capitulation of the corps d’armée, to which the garrison of the fort belonged. Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys desired me to say to you that the information which had reached him led him to believe that Major General Mejia had committed an error, and that he had written in that sense to the French minister at Mexico.
I am, sir, with great respect, your very obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, &c., &c., &c.