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

Annexes to Mr. Metzger’s Protest.

Port au Prince, November 8, 1888.

(1.) Mr. Metzger to Mr. Léon.

Dear Sir: At last this afternoon I have received the copy of the report of Commander Gaillard, but I am not able to conceal my astonishment on discovering that the tenor of this important document is not at all the same as that of the document published by the same Commander Gaillard in Le Progrès of the 20th ultimo.

I am desirous also of having copy of the judgment pronounced on my petition for a delay, which judgment I beg that you would have the goodness to cause to be delivered to me without further delay. In the mean time, believe me to be, dear sir, your very devoted servant,

John D. Metzger.
Emanuel Léon,
Advocate of the Government, Present.

N. B.—To this letter, which points out a fact calculated to destroy the authority of the judgment of the prize court rendered the 31st October last, the advocate of the Government has been unable to reply.