EXHIBIT Q.
St. Petersburg, May 3 (15), 1893.
Your Excellency: I have just received instructions from my Government to call your attention to the matter of the seizure by the Russian authorities of the bark Cape Horn Pigeon at Vladivostok on or about September 10, 1891, and especially to ask for the result of the pending investigation by the Russian authorities concerning the seizure and detention of the said bark and the treatment of the officers and crew at Vladivostok, referred to in your note to Mr. G. W. Wurts, Chargé d’Affaires, of September, 1891.
My Government expresses earnest desire for a full and complete investigation in the matter and a communication of all the circumstances in the case, and I respectfully request the result of the investigation above referred to at your earliest convenience.
I avail, etc.,