Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Day.

British Embassy,
New London, Conn., August 12, 1898.

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I am in receipt of a dispatch from Her Majesty’s secretary of state for foreign affairs acquainting me that Mr. Haggard, Her Majesty’s minister at Caracas, has accepted the courteous offer of Mr. Loomis, the United States minister at that capital, to allow the United States consul at La Guayra to take temporary charge of the British vice-consulate there.

I am instructed by the Marquis of Salisbury to convey to your Government the thanks of Her Majesty’s Government for Mr. Loomis’s action in the matter.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.