Mr. Romero to Mr. Seward
My Dear Mr Seward: To-day I have had the honor to receive the letter you pleased to address to me on the 27th of the month now closing, with copy of a letter from Mr. Sanford, minister of the United States in Belgium, dated at Brussels, 16th instant, which is accompanied by another from Mr. Devaux, (Jules,) chief of the cabinet of the King of the Belgians, in which he begs the United States may intercede in favor of Don Felix Eloin, one of those Belgians who labored in Mexico to consolidate the order of things which the French intervention pretended to establish.
You are pleased to make known to me that neither the Mexican republic nor the United States have any reason to be pleased with the proceedings of Mr. Eloin, as secretary of the deceased Prince Maximilian, adding that Mexico, as well as the United States, can now be magnanimous to the partisans of that leader, for which reason, and not thinking it advisable to interfere officially in favor of Mr. Eloin, you tell me the President has authorized you to address a note to me, of informal character, asking my good offices that the government of Mexico may act with clemency in the case of Mr. Eloin.
In reply, it is satisfactory to me to make known to you that this very day I have sent to my government a copy and translation of your letter, and of the copy annexed to it.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.