No. 139.

Mr. Davis to Mr. Bancroft

No. 225.]

Sir: I inclose herewith, for your information, a copy of a dispatch, No. 253, of the 12th instant, from Mr. Washburne, relative to the measures taken by him for the protection of North Germans in France.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

J. C. B. DAVIS.

[For this inclosure see, ante, “France,” Mr. Washburne’s dispatch No. 253, dated August 12, 1870.]