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

No. 34.

Mr. Fish to Mr. E. B. Washburne.

No. 168.]

Department of State, Washington , September 15, 1870.

Sir: I acknowledge the receipt of your very interesting dispatch of the 22d ultimo, No. 266, giving an account of your interview with the French minister of the interior, and inclosing a copy of your letter to the minister of foreign affairs, together with a translation of a debate in the Corps Legislatif on the expulsion of the Germans from France.

Your conduct in relation to the important and delicate subject referred to is regarded by the President and by this Department as very prudent and discreet.

HAMILTON FISH.