Letter
Granville to Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, January 11, 1871
No. 3. Earl Granville to Lord Lyons.
Foreign Office, January 11, 1871.
My Lord: I have received your excellency’s dispatch of the 6th instant, inclosing a letter from Mr. Kirby, an English gentleman, established with his family at La Ferté Imbault, complaining of the conduct of the German troops in making requisitions on his property; and I have to instruct you to acquaint that gentleman that much as Her Majesty’s government regret the inconvenience and loss to which he and his family were exposed, it is out of their power to interfere to obtain any redress for him, inasmuch as foreigners residing in a country which is the seat of war are equally liable with the natives of this country to have requisitions levied on their property by the belligerents.
I am, &c.,
GRANVILLE.
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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.