Mr. Raikes to Mr. Hill.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 2502, of the 25th instant, in which you are good enough to forward a copy of a dispatch addressed to you by the United States consul at Guadeloupe, giving a general account of the acts performed by him for British subjects on the occasion of the late disaster at Martinique, in the absence of any British representative in that island.

I have the honor to express to you my sincere thanks for this interesting communication, a copy of which I have forwarded to His Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs.

I have, etc.,

Arthur S. Raikes.