Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 7, 1874

No. 666.
General Sickles to Mr. Fish.

[Telegram.]

Madrid, November 30, 1873.

General Pieltain denies that he directed the capture of the Virginius, and asserts that the order was given by the commanding officer of the fleet to take her wherever found.

SICKLES.