Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, to Mr. Goñi, Spanish minister.

Department of State,
Washington , November 30, 1868.

[730] Sir: Your note of the 21th instant has been received with high satis*faction.

I give you herewith, and with the assent of Señor Garcia y Garcia, minister of Peru, extracts from two notes which have been received from that distinguished gentleman, relating to the proposed departure of the Oneota and Catawba for a Peruvian port. It gives me pleasure to add that this Government reposes entire confidence in the fulfillment of the assurances on that subject which appear in those notes.

I avail myself of the occasion, sir, to offer to you assurances of my very high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Señor Don Facundo Goñi, &c., &c., &c.