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

No. 39.

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

No. 190.]

Department of State, Washington, October 18, 1870.

On the 30th of August last the Department inclosed to Mr. Bancroft a copy of the instructions addressed to you on that day, respecting the protection of American property in Paris. Mr. Bancroft was at the same time instructed to ask that proper measures be taken by the Government of North Germany “for the protection of American property in Paris, in the event of the occupation of that city by the German forces.”

I now inclose a copy of a dispatch which I have received, from Mr. Bancroft, and of the paper which accompanied it, in reply to that instruction.

[For this inclosure see post—“North Germany,” Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Fish, No. 143, dated September 29, 1870.]