Letter

Benavides to The Chargé d’affaires of the United States, March 21, 1865

[472] *Mr. Benavides, minister of foreign affairs, to Mr. Perry, United States chargé d’affaires.

[Translation.]

Sir: Reserving the privilege to communicate to you whatever the authorities of the Ferrol may reply hereafter with respect to the fraudulent increase of the crew of the corsair Stonewall, to which your notes of the 7th instant refer, I have the honor now to communicate that the captain-general of that marine department said, in a telegram the day before yesterday to the minister of marine, that the Stonewall had not enlisted any men at all.

I avail myself of this occasion to renew, &c., &c.

A. BENAVIDES.

The Chargé d’affaires of the United States.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.