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Diplomatic movement.Yankee speculations on the visit of Count Mercier to Richmond.
The Northern letter-writers are much exercised respecting the recent visit of the French Minister to Richmond.
The Washington correspondent of a New York paper speculates as follows:
Washington, April 25, 1862.
Lord Lyons has not gone to Richmond, but it is understood that a representative of the British authorities has gone there, and also both the Swedish and Danish Ministers.
These visits of foreign dignitaries to the rebel capital, in the last hours of the rebellion, are significant.
They are the subject of much comment here.
Some members of the Cabinet are blind enough to imagine that these visits are simply charitable and intended to remonstrate with the rebel leaders, and advise a reconciliation and a reconstruction of the Union.
Wiser and more far-seeing men in the Cabinet recognize in these mysterious visitations only a speculation in cotton and tobacco.
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