Mr. Foulk to Mr. Bayard .
Seoul, Corea , October 21, 1885. (Received December 7.)
Sir: I have the honor to report that the exchange of the ratified, treaties of Russia and Corea took place on the 16th instant. The treaty thus consummated is similar to those made by Corea with England and Germany. Mr. Waeber, the Russian chargé d’affaires, sails to-day for Shanghai, whence he is to return shortly.
The negotiations for a trading-post for overland trade between Russia (Siberia) and Corea, treated of in my dispatch No. 238, have been postponed to a later date.
On the 16th instant a flagstaff was raised on the site of the Russian legation, and a dinner given at the foreign office to celebrate the exchange of the treaties.
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I am, &c.,
Ensign, U. S. Navy, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.