Mr. Egan to Mr. Foster.

[Extract.]
No. 320.]

Sir: I beg to refer to my No. 319 of 2d instant, inclosing copy of my note addressed to the minister of foreign relations on the subject of the repeated attacks made by a section of the Chilean press upon the honor of Admiral Brown and other officers of the U. S. Navy, and now inclose translation of the reply of the minister thereto.

I have, etc.,

Patrick Egan.
[Inclosure in No. 320.—Translation.]

Señor Errazuriz to Mr. Egan.

Sir: I have had the honor to receive the communication of your excellency dated 2d instant, in which, after repeating that stated by your excellency to this department on a former occasion with reference to certain comments made by the press on [Page 62] the conduct observed by Admiral Brown during the disembarkation of the constitutional forces at Quinteros, your excellency incloses a printed cutting in which the ex-governor of Quillota under the Balmaceda administration explains the manner in which the knowledge of the disembarkation of the said forces reached the authorities.

I have taken careful note of the dispatch of your excellency, which I have read with marked interest, and in acknowledging the receipt of it to your excellency I am glad to avail, etc.,

Isidoro Errazuriz.