Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 173.

Mr. Davis to Baron Gerolt.

Department of State, Washington, July 25, 1870.

My Dear Baron: For your information and use, I inclose a copy of a cable dispatch from Mr. Washburne of this date, stating the position of France as to the declaration of Paris.

Very truly yours,

J. C. B. DAVIS.

[Telegram.]

Mr. Washburne to Mr. Fish.

Paris, July 25, 1870.

Official notice that France, in present war, adheres to the declaration of Paris, as well in regard to United States as other powers, especially Prussian property in American bottoms, respected unless contraband, and American property respected in Prussian bottoms.

WASHBURNE.