Mr. Leishman to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

(Mr. Leishman reports that no exception has been taken by the Sublime Porte to the propriety of his repeated demand for audience with the Sultan in order to deliver the President’s message, but that failure to comply or even to reply must at least be construed as a deliberate attempt to avoid an interview, and as Mr. Leishman does not feel warranted in treating the present question with the usual unlimited amount of patience or permitting delay beyond the point that would be compatible with the dignity of the American Government and its honored Chief, he would be pleased to have the Department of State instruct him as to how long it deems it proper for him to wait, and what further action it desires him to take.)