Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, with the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1875, Volume I

No. 268.
General Schenck to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States,
London, April 21, 1875. (Received May 6.)

No. 739.]

Sir: Referring to my No. 731, in which I gave, with accompanying papers and correspondence, a report of the case of the “G. C. Trufant,” and to my note of the 9th instant, to Lord Derby, which closed that correspondence on my part, I have now to add the copy of a note which I received from his lordship last night.

You will observe that in this answer Lord Derby does not recur to any of the facts or arguments connected with the affair of the vessel in question, but confines himself to a notice of the suggestion I made at the close of my note to him in regard to the necessity of a consular convention as a comprehensive and effective remedy for all these differences. He simply makes the case an occasion for repeating the familiar assurance that “the question is receiving the attentive consideration of Her Majesty’s government.”

I have, &c.,

ROBERT C. SCHENCK.

[Inclosure in No. 739.]

Lord Derby to General Schenck.

Foreign Office, April 19, 1875.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, with its inclosure, of the 9th instant, referring to the case of the G. C. Trufant, and suggesting the expediency of a reciprocal understanding being arrived at with regard to the future treatment of such cases by means of a consular convention between the governments of Great Britain and the United States, and I beg in reply to assure you that this question is receiving the attentive consideration of Her Majesty’s government.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient humble servant,

DERBY.

General Schenck,
&c., &c., &c.