No. 482.
Mr. Mantilla to Mr. Evarts.
New York, June 26, 1878. (Received June 27.)
The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Catholic Majesty, affected by the most profound feelings, performs the sad duty of communicating to the honorable Secretary of State of the United States, for the information of the President of the Republic and of the government of which he is the head, that he has just received a telegram from the minister of state of His Majesty the [Page 818] King of Spain, notifying him of the death, at a quarter past twelve o’clock to-day, of Her Majesty the Queen, Doña Maria de las Mercedes de Orleans y Borbon, resulting from a nervous gastric fever.
Upon this sad occasion the undersigned has the honor of renewing, &c.,