Letter

Notification., August 7, 1866

Author

M.’s Political Agent and Consul General in Japan

Date

August 7, 1866

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Translation.]

Notification.

Kanagawa, August 7, 1866.

The war operations of his Majesty the Tycoon against Mori Daizen, Prince of Suwo and Nagato, having commenced, commanders and masters of Netherlands men-of-war and merchantmen are earnestly warned, by desire of the Japanese government, not to anchor off the coasts of those provinces or to pass the strait of Simonoseki.

D. DE GRAEFF VON POLSBROECK, H. N. M.’s Political Agent and Consul General in Japan.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty.