Mr. Hay to Mr. Raikes.

No. 2485.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, No. 165, of the 27th ultimo, and to say in reply that it has given the Department pleasure to forward to the United States consul at Martinique a copy of your note expressing the thanks of His Majesty’s Government for Mr. Aymé’s action in undertaking, during the absence of any representative of His Majesty’s Government at that place, to protect British interests there.

I have, etc.,

John Hay.