Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Thompson to Mr. Gresham.

Legation of the United States,
Petropolis, December 31, 1893. (Received February 3, 1894.)

No. 119.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose copy of a letter from the minister of foreign affairs of December 16, 1893, to the dean of the diplomatic corps, and a note from the diplomatic corps of the 19th instant, transmitting the above to the commanding officers of the foreign naval forces.

I have, etc.,

Thos. L. Thompson.

[Inclosure 1 in No. 199—Translation.]

Senhor Nascimento to Mr. Wyndham.

Rio de Janerio, December 16, 1893.

Sir: On two of the points of our conference of the 14th instant I have to communicate to you that which follows:

The Vice-President of the Republic, wishing to give to the members of the diplomatic corps a proof of his desire to be agreeable to them, permits the embarking and disembarking to be made at the quay of the Praca da Harmonia as stated in the notice of the chief of police published by the Diario Official in its issue of to-day.

As to the anchorage of the ships of war, it has not been changed by the Government. The change was made by the commanders of the foreign naval vessels who, without asking permission from the competent local authority and accepting an invitation from M. de Mello, anchored in the part of the bay where they now are. If the commanders should come back to the customary anchorage and if the Government wished to fire on Cobras Island another would be assigned to them.

Be pleased to accept, etc.,

Cassiano Nascimento.

[Inclosure 2 in No. 119—Translation.]

Diplomatic Corps to the Naval Commandants.

Petropolis, December 19, 1893.

As a sequel to their note of the 17th instant the representatives of the powers interested have the honor to transmit to the commanding officers of the foreign naval forces the inclosed copy of a communication from M. Cassiano Nascimento dated the 16th of the present month and received yesterday by the dean of the diplomatic corps, the English minister.

As the commanders will see, the minister of foreign affairs of the Federal Government, in the said communication, indicates as fixed at the quay of the Praca da Harmonia the new place for embarking and disembarking; he replies, likewise to the request which Mr. Wyndham had made at the request of the commanders and which was the object of the telegram of Capt. Lang, dated the 12th of this month, concerning the question of the change of anchorage of the foreign warships.