No. 562.
Mr. Christiancy to Mr. Blaine.
Lima, Peru, July 6, 1881. (Received July 26.)
Sir: Referring to your dispatch No. 148, and to my dispatch No. 322, I have the honor to state that, as I had some reason to fear when I wrote the last dispatch, I have still more reason to fear now, that the recognition of the provisional government of Francisco Garcia Calderon was premature. I have now further to say that the forces of that government sent to the north have, some 58 to 68 of them (for the reports do not agree), gone over to Admiral Montero, a partisan of Piérola, and that those sent into the department of Junin have been effectually driven out by the friends of Piérola within the last few days, and their prospects for forming a government are not as good now as before; yet, in view of your dispatch No. 150, as well as your previous dispatches, it is very clear that you had determined upon the recognition of the provisional government, and that I only complied with your wish in making the recognition.
I fear, however, this recognition will lead to many complications. But I have obeyed what I was compelled to consider your orders.
I am, &c.,