No. 155.
Sir Edward
Thornton to Mr. Fish.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday’s date, informing me of the arrest and surrender by Her Majesty’s Government of the forger Brent, and that the other two fugitives, Winslow and Gray, for whom warrants were also issued, have escaped from, or are concealed in, Great Britain and cannot be found.
I beg to express my satisfaction that under these circumstances the President will again regard the tenth article of the treaty of 1842 as in full force, subject to the right reserved to either party to terminate the same pursuant to the eleventh article thereof.
I last night communicated to the Earl of Derby by telegraph the substance [Page 286] of your note above mentioned, informing him at the same time that the Government of the United States is now ready to make and to receive requisitions for the surrender of fugitive criminals as heretofore.
I have the honor, &c.,