File No. 412.00/4.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.

No. 489.]

Sir: The Department has received the Ambassador’s No. 712 of the 6th ultimo transmitting [etc.].

With reference to the instructions requested by the Ambassador in this despatch, you are referred to the Department’s No. 476 of the 17th instant, answering your No. 734 of the 20th ultimo.

I am [etc.]

Huntington Wilson.