Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1871

No. 10.

Mr. Wright to Mr. Fish

No. 164.]

Legation of the United States, Rio de Janeiro , March 20, 1871. (Received April 24.)

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 52, in reference to certain property of Paraguayans, of the Government of the United States, of Mr. Washburn, and Mr. Duffield, alleged to have been seized as booty at the legation of the United States in Asuncion, by soldiers in the service of the empire of Brazil, upon their entrance into that capital. Your instructions upon this subject have my attention, and I shall seek an early occasion for a conference in conformity therewith, with the minister of foreign affairs.

Of the result you shall be duly informed.

I have, &c.,

ROBERT CLINTON WRIGHT.