Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. McMahon.

No. 6.]

Department of State, Washington, November 18, 1868.

Sir: I herewith inclose for your information a copy of a dispatch^* addressed by this department to James Watson Webb, esq., United States minister at Rio de Janeiro; also a copy of a communication^† from this department to the Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, in relation to late occurrences on the Parana.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Martin T. McMahon, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

1. For this inclosure see instruction to Mr. Webb, No. 238, November 17, 1868, p. 310.
2. For this inclosure see instruction to Mr. Washburn, No. 78, November 17, 1868.