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

No. 179.

Mr. Fish to Baron Gerolt.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, September 16, 1870.

Sir: I have the honor to inclose, for your information and that of your government, a copy of a dispatch of the 22d ultimo, No. 266, and of the papers which accompanied it, from E. B. Washburne, esq., the minister of the United States at Paris, and who is charged with the protection of subjects of North Germany in France, in relation to the expulsion of such subjects from that country.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your obedient servant,

HAMILTON FISH.

[This inclosure will be found in Mr. Washburne’s No. 266, dated 22d August, 1870, ante, “France.”]