Letter

FIELD, Acting Attorney-General to Edwards Pierrepont, August 3, 1869

Author

FIELD, Acting Attorney-General

Recipient

Edwards Pierrepont

Date

August 3, 1869

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure No. 1.]

Mr. Field, Acting Attorney-General, to Mr. Pierrepont, district attorney.

[Telegram.]

Attorney-General’s Office, Washington, August 3, 1869.

Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, United States Attorney, New York City:

[757] The Secretary of State informs this office that the Peruvian minister has notified him that a state of war still exists between Peru and Spain; that the Spanish government has ordered the building within the United States of thirty gun-boats equipped for war, fifteen of *which are building in the ship-yards of the Mystic River, Connecticut, ten in Poillon’s yards, Brooklyn, New York, four of which last have been launched, and are at Delamater’s, receiving engines; and five gun-boats are building at Green Point; and that the President desires that you act promptly and prevent the sailing of any of these gun-boats.

W. A. FIELD,
Acting Attorney-General.

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 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.