Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1881

No. 166.
Mr. Blaine to Mr. Angell.

Department of State,
Washington, June 29, 1881.

No. 109.]

Sir: Your dispatch No. 152 of April 30 last, has been received. It narrates the particulars of a disturbance by the Chinese at the American Presbyterian Mission, at Peking, and describes the measures taken by the Chinese authorities, at your earnest solicitation, to suppress it.

In reply I desire to extend my congratulations to you, and to express my gratification at the successful result of the measures adopted to quell the disturbance.

I am, sir, &c.,

JAMES G. BLAINE.