Mr. Sickles to Mr. Hay.

No. 512.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt to-day of your telegraphic instruction in reply to my cablegram of the 30th instant.

The purport of your cablegram has been repeated at once by wire to the consul-general at Barcelona.

I have, etc.,

Stanton Sickles,
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.