Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, to Mr. Roberts, Spanish minister.

Department of State,
Washington, May 21, 1869.

Sir: I have the honor to inclose for your information a transcript of a letter of the 18th instant, addressed to this Department by the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication addressed to him by the collector of customs at New York stating that a clearance had been refused to the steamer Columbia [Quaker City] “because of suspicious circumstances connected with her.”

I am, sir, with, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.

Señor Don M. Lopez Roberts, &c., &c.