Letter
Granville to W. B. West, March 1, 1871
No. 10. Earl Granville to Mr. West.
Foreign Office, March 1, 1871.
Sir: I have consulted the law-officers of the Grown upon the point submitted to me in your dispatch of the 24th February, as to the claims of British subjects to be indemnified for the loss of property during the war; and I have now to acquaint you that I am advised by them that Her Majesty’s subjects resident in France, whose property has been destroyed during the war, cannot expect to be compensated, on the ground of their being British subjects, for losses which the necessities of war have brought upon them in common with French subjects.
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.