Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 7, 1874

No. 695.
Admiral Polo de Bernabé to Mr. Fish.

Legation of Spain
Washington, November 20, 1873.

The undersigned, minister plenipotentiary of Spain, has the honor to inclose to the honorable Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, a literal copy of a telegraphic dispatch from the minister of state at Madrid, with express orders to communicate it to him.

The undersigned avails, &c,

JOSÉ POLO DE BERNABÉ.

[Inclosure.]

[Telegram from secretary of state, Madrid, to Spanish minister, Washington, 20th November, 1873. Received at 6.45 p.m.]

No apprehension need he entertained of difficulties arising from the presence in Cuban waters of United States war-vessels.

Spain is at this day respected in Cuba, and we are now sending the most peremptory orders.

I await with impatience your reply to my telegram of last evening proposing arbitration.