No. 83.
Mr. Partridge to Mr. Fish.
United
States Legation,
Rio de
Janeiro, August 21, 1875.
(Received Sept. 20.)
No. 278.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
your dispatches numbered 154 (with inclosure—copy of a letter from Navy
Department) and 155.
In obedience to the instruction in the former, I have written to the Baron de
Cotegipe a communication expressing the sense entertained by the Government
at Washington of the friendly service rendered to the United States frigate
Lancaster by the Baron de Ivanheima and by the surgeon of the Brazilian
navy, Doctor Ferreira de Rocha, returning the thanks of the Government
therefor, and asking that those thanks may also be tendered to the Baron
Ivanheima and Surgeon de Rocha.
A copy of that communication is hereto annexed.
I have, &c.,
I had previously and verbally returned thanks to the Viscount de
Caravellas, the minister of foreign affairs at the time, in May
last.
[Inclosure in No. 278.]
Mr. Partridge to
Baron de Cotegipe.
Legation of the United States,
Petropolis, August 22,
1875.
To His Excellency the Baron de
Cotegipe, &c.
The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the
United States, has the honor to inform his excellency the Baron de
Cotegipe, minister and secretary of state for foreign affairs, that he
has received instructions from Washington to make known to the imperial
government the high sense entertained by the Government at Washington of
the friendly act and important service rendered by the Baron Ivanheima,
chief of division in the Imperial navy, and commanding the Brazilian
squadron at Bahia, in May last, in offering to the United States frigate
Lancaster, Captain F. A. Roe, then suffering from the loss of her
medical officers, the services of one of the surgeons of his own fleet;
as well as by the said surgeon, Doctor E. Alves Ferreira da Rocha, who
volunteered to go on board the Lancaster and there perform the duties of
surgeon, accompanying the said frigate to the United States.
The Navy Department of the United States, upon these facts becoming known
to it, desired the honorable Secretary of State (for foreign affairs) to
express through the proper channel that Department’s sense of the
courteous and friendly act of the Baron Ivanheima, and the
self-sacrificing and courageous act of Doctor Alves Ferreira da Rocha;
and the undersigned has been instructed to convey to the imperial
government the thanks of the Government at Washington; and to request,
also, that the
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thanks of the
United States Government be tendered to the Baron Ivanheima and Doctor
Ferreira da Rocha therefor.
It affords the undersigned great pleasure to fulfill these orders, and to
tender the thanks of his Government therefor, to the imperial
government, as well as to the officers above named of the imperial navy;
and in so doing he also expresses to his excellency the Baron de
Cotegipe the assurance of his complete esteem and consideration.
