Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 672.
Mr. Thompson to Mr. Bayard.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States,
Port au Prince Hayti, November 6, 1888. (Received November 21.)

No. 219.]

Sir: Yesterday morning, the 5th instant, I received a cable dispatch via Mole St. Nicholas, which read as follows:

Protest instantly against action of Haytian authorities; man-of-war ordered.

In the evening the United’ States ship Boston, Captain Ramsey, came into the harbor. This morning we commenced a joint study of the seizure of the steamer Haytian Republic and the schooner William Jones. My previous dispatch will explain the attitude I have taken in the two affairs.

I have, etc.,

John E. W. Thompson.