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

No. 124.
Mr. Fish to Mr. Washburne.

Department of State,
Washington, October 9, 1871.

No. 335.]

Sir: The following extract from a report made by Minister Leon to the Congress of Ecuador, a copy of which accompanied a dispatch of the 21st of August last, from our minister at Quito, is transmitted for your information:

Our citizens in Paris having been exposed to the consequences of the horrible Franco-German war without any Ecuadorian diplomatic agent which could protect their persons and property, found in the minister plenipotentiary (the Hon. E. B. Washburne) of the United States of America aid and protection.

I am, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.