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

No. 189.

Mr. Brent to Mr. Fish

No. 241.]

Legation of the United States, Lima, Peru, October 27, 1870. (Received November 28, 1870.)

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that on the 24th instant his ex cellency President Balta issued a proclamation declaring the neutrality of Peru in the existing war between France and Prussia.