Office of the Historian

Mr. Boyd to Mr. Gresham.

Legation of the United States,
Bangkok, August 23, 1893. (Received October 2.)
No. 73.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that on the 16th instant M. Le Myre de Vilers, special envoy from France arrived in this city. The object of his visit is the drawing up of a treaty settling all questions pending between France and Siam.

The distinguished Frenchman expects to remain a month or more in Siam, during which time it is his intention to visit different parts of the Kingdom. He has been received in audience by His Majesty the King, and other marks of distinction have been shown him.

Affairs are rapidly resuming their normal condition.

The English and Dutch gunboats have left port, and only one gunboat, a German, besides the one bringing the special envoy, remains in the harbor.

I have, etc.,

Robert M. Boyd,
Vice-Consul-General