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

No. 301.

Mr. Davis to Mr. Brent.

No. 5.]

Department of State, Washington, November 1, 1870.

Sir: Your dispatch, No. 238, of the 27th ultimo, accompanied by further correspondence in regard to the appointment of Colonel Farrand as bearer of dispatches, has been received. The arguments of the Peruvian minister for foreign affairs against the legality of that appointment appear to have been answered by anticipation in the instruction to you, No. 3, of the 19th ultimo.