Count Andrassy to Count Beust, December 10, 1871

No. 65. Count Andrassy to Count Beust.

In pursuance of a dispatch from this ministry of the 8th of September last, for obtaining fuller information in regard to the adoption of certain rules as to the treatment of neutrals on the high seas, which had been agreed upon between the royal government of Great Britain and that of the United States of America, it was announced in the dispatch from your embassy, of the 16th of December, in a preliminary manner, that the said two governments would in a short time transmit to the other powers the requisite official communication on this subject.

Inasmuch as up to this time no official communication has reached me, and both ministries of commerce have repeatedly addressed the request that they may receive fuller information on the subject, your excellency will please confidentially address the inquiry to the ministry of foreign affairs in London, whether in fact the official communication in question may still be expected from Great Britain.

Accept, &c.