No. 572.
Mr. Evarts to Mr. Willamov.
Washington, August 4, 1880.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 21st ultimo, wherewith you transmit copies of the correspondence exchanged between the foreign office of your government and the representatives [Page 887] of Great Britain and France at St. Petersburg, relative to the appointment of a commission of liquidation for the regulation of the financial obligations of the government of Egypt.
This government accepts as a mark of consideration and favor the communication thus made to it by direction of that of His Imperial Majesty the Czar, for its information, and in response thereto can do no less than communicate for the reciprocal information of the Russian cabinet, the reply which it has made* to a like communication addressed to it by the representatives of Austria-Hungary, Italy, Germany, France, and Great Britain, accredited at this capital. As you will perceive, the attitude of reserve which this government was at first inclined to maintain in the premises, although founded upon considerations analogous to those adduced by your government, was to a greater extent conditional on the direct relations of Egypt to the United States, and has been abandoned upon the earnest showing of the Khedival government that the adhesion of the United States was regarded by it as essential to the working of a measure of domestic administration.
Accept, sir, &c.,