No. 10.
Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Fish.
No. 373.]
American Legation, Berlin, June 17, 1872. (Received July 3.)
Sir: I send you by the Hamburg packet of the
19th instant three bound copies of the English version of our reply to
the British argument on the San Juan question; ten copies of the same
with maps, and fifteen without maps; ten copies of the German with maps,
and fifteen without maps. A bound copy of the English second and
definitive statement is also inclosed in one of the parcels. I annex
copies of the correspondence that attended the delivery of the
reply.Transmits copies of the replies and of the
correspondence attending their delivery.
I remain, &c.,
[Inclosure No. 1.]
Mr. Odo Russell to Mr. Bancroft.
British Embassy, Berlin, June 10, 1872.
Sir: The undersigned, Her Britannic
Majesty’s Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His
Imperial Majesty the Émperor of Germany, has the honor to transmit
to Mr. Bancroft, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of
the United States to the Court of Berlin, in pursuance of the
provisions of the thirty-sixth Article of the Treaty of Washington,
of the 8th of May, 1871, copies, in duplicate, of the second and
definitive statement of the British Government in the matter of the
line of Boundary between the Territories of Her Majesty the Queen of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and those of the
United States, which the undersigned has this day delivered to His
Serene Highness Prince Bismarck to be laid before His Imperial
Majesty the Emperor of Germany. The undersigned will have the honor
of furnishing Mr. Bancroft with additional copies of this statement
if he should desire them.
The undersigned, &c.,
[Inclosure No. 2.]
Mr. Bancroft to Mr. Odo Russell.
American Legation, Berlin, June 11, 1872.
Sir: The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the
Emperor of Germany, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the
note of Mr. Odo Russell, British Embassador at Berlin, of last
evening, and copies in duplicate of the second and definitive
statement of the British Government [Page 262] according to the provisions of the Treaty of
Washington of the 8th of May, 1871.
Mr Odo Russell having already delivered this statement to his Serene
Highness the Prince of Bismarck to he laid before His Imperial
Majesty the Emperor of Germany, the undersigned expresses the hope
that this long-continued controversy may be brought very speedily to
an end through the friendly intervention of the Imperial
Arbitrator.
The undersigned, &c.,
[Inclosure No. 3.]
Mr. Bancroft to the Prince Bismarck.
American Legation, Berlin, June 11, 1872.
The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of
the United States of America, takes leave in the name of his
Government, through His Serene Highness the Prince of Bismarck,
Chancellor of the German Empire, to lay before His Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of Germany the accompanying definitive reply of the
United States to the Case of the Government of Her Britannic Majesty
of the 13th of December, 1871.
The undersigned has communicated a copy of this definitive reply to
the representative of Her Britannic Majesty at Berlin.
The undersigned has received from the British Embassador at Berlin a
copy of the second and definitive statement on behalf of the
Government of Her Britannic Majesty, together with notice that the
same was yesterday submitted through his Serene Highness the Prince
of Bismarck to His Majesty the Emperor of Germany.
Nothing remains for the undersigned but to express his hope that, now
that each party has presented its last word, an early decision may
soon remove the cloud of difference that has so long existed on this
subject between the Government of the United States and the
Government of Her Britannic Majesty.
The undersigned, &c.,
[Inclosure No. 4.]
Mr Bancroft to Mr. Odo Russell.
American Legation, Berlin, June 11, 1872.
Sir: The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the
Emperor of Germany, has the honor to transmit to Mr. Odo Russell,
Her Britannic Majesty’s Embassador at Berlin, in pursuance of the
thirty-sixth article of the Treaty of Washington of the 8th of May,
1871, copies in duplicate of the definitive reply of the Government
of the United States to the Case of the Government of Her Britannic
Majesty of December 13, 1871, which the undersigned has this day
delivered to His Serene Highness the Prince of Bismarck, to be laid
before His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany.
The undersigned will have the honor of furnishing Mr. Odo Russell
with an additional copy of this statement, together with other
copies, if he should desire them, and avails himself of this
opportunity to renew, &c.
[Inclosure No. 5.]
Mr. Odo Russell to Mr. Bancroft.
British Embassy, Berlin, June 11, 1872.
Sir: The undersigned, Her Britannic
Majesty’s Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His
Majesty the Emperor of Germany, has the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of Mr. Bancroft’s letter of this day’s date, informing him
that he had submitted to His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, through
Prince Bismarck, the second and definitive reply of the Government
of the United States on the disputed boundary [Page 263] question, and at the same time
inclosing copies of it for Mr. Russell’s use and information.
In thanking Mr. Bancroft for this communication, and cordially
reciprocating His Excellency’s wish expressed in his even-dated note
that this long-continued controversy may, through the friendly
arbitration of the Emperor, be brought very speedily to a close, the
undersigned, &c.
