Mr. Uhl to Mr. McDonald.

No. 57.]

Sir: I have received your No. 77 of the 26th March last and the copy which you inclose of a note of the Persian minister of state, and have to say in reply that the Department in its No. 13 of August 17, 1893, has already expressed its sympathy for Persia’s desire to see the interests of its subjects in Egypt duly respected, but is now, as when the above instruction was written unable to intervene to secure the desired representation in the mixed tribunal in Egypt.

I am, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl,
Acting Secretary.