[Translation.]
Señor Romero to Mr. Seward
Washington,
June 14, 1866.
My Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit to
you the copy of a letter I received yesterday from a reliable person in
Bordeaux, dated the 31st of May last, giving me some important
information relative to the intentions and plans of the French
government in regard to Mexico. You are a better judge than I am of the
importance to be attached to the information I deem it my duty to
communicate to your department.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.
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Much Esteemed Friend: * * * * * *
An ex-minister of Maximilian writes from Paris to an acquaintance
here, that since the Austrian volunteers that were about to embark
for Vera Cruz were disbanded at Mr. Seward’s request, an effort is
being made to retain most of the French soldiers in Mexico under
Mexican colors. I heard another person assure that a loan of six
millions of dollars a year for four years was negotiating in France,
to be secured by the pledge of mineral lands to be worked by a
French company, with the privilege of shipping the ore to Europe to
be reduced.
Don Manuel Larrainzar, who went to St. Petersburg as agent for
Maximilian, to solicit the recognition of the Emperor of Russia,
writes to an acquaintance on the 25th instant as follows:
“On passing through Paris I had a conversation with Mr. Drouyn de
Lhuys; and, in spite of the opposition of a certain party and the
embarrassing position in which the Emperor will be placed, I think
the French government will examine Mexican affairs in all
particulars, and will endeavor to solve them so as to leave the
government of our august sovereign free and unembarrassed.”
Señor Don Matias Romero, Washington.
