Letter

Count Beust to Count Wolkenstein, in London, September 8, 1871

Author

Count Beust

Recipient

Count Wolkenstein, in London

Date

September 8, 1871

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure.—Translation.]

No. 63. Count Beust to Count Wolkenstein, in London.

Saltzburg, September 8, 1871.

The message in which the English Parliament was prorogued, on the 21st August last, contains the paragraph, that the royal government of Great Britain had agreed with that of the United States of America in regard to the adoption of certain rules as to the treatment of neutrals on the high seas, “in respect to which rules the presumption was announced that they would, at no remote time, receive universal acknowledgment and form a valuable addition to the international code.”

Inasmuch as the Imperial Royal ministry of commerce has expressed the wish to obtain fuller information on this subject, I accordingly request you, as early as possible, to comply with this desire and to report thereon.

Accept, &c.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P 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 P.