No. 139.
Mr. Davis to Mr. Bancroft
No. 225.]
Department of State, Washington, August 23, 1870.
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.]