No. 5.
The Earl of
Derby to Mr. Comyn.
M. le Ministre: I have the honor to acquaint you that I have received a dispatch from Her Majesty’s minister at Madrid, dated the 25th ultimo, reporting that he had been informed by Señor Ulloa, two days previously, that peremptory orders would at once be given for the payment to Her Majesty’s government of the indemnities due to the relatives of the British subjects who were shot at Santiago de Cuba in November, 1873; and I now beg to request that you will have the goodness to inform me whether you have received any instructions from your government in the matter.
I have, .&c.,