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

No. 55.

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

No. 242.]

Legation of the United States, Paris, July 29, 1870. (Received August 11, 1870.)

Sir: I have just learned, what may be a matter of some interest to you, that the subjects of Bavaria, Würtemberg, and Baden have been put under the protection of the Swiss minister, Mr. Kern, during the war between France and Prussia.

E. B. WASHBURNE.