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. Dickinson, district attorney, to Mr. Hunter, Acting Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

Office United States Military Telegraph,
War Department,
New York , January 24, 1866,

Wm. Hunter, Esq., Acting Secretary of State:

Sir: Upon information and evidence furnished by the Spanish consul that the ship Meteor is being fitted out, and is about to sail from this port with intent that she should be employed or cruise in the service of Chili against the commerce of Spain, I have caused her to be libeled and detained. Has the Department of State any suggestions or instructions?

D. S. DICKINSON,
United States District Attorney.