The French Minister in Washington to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Monsieur le Ministre: On the 20th of November I transmitted to the Secretary of State a copy and translation of your excellency’s despatch dated the 18th of October last. I have the honor now to make you know the note just addressed to me on that subject by the Secretary of State. I have confined myself to answer him that it had duly reached me, and that I should not fail to submit it at once to the appreciation of the Emperor’s government, whose instructions I would wait to discuss its contents.
Please accept, &c.,
(For note of Mr. Seward’s to the Marquis de Montholon, dated December 6, 1865, see page —.)