File No. 839.00/538.]

The American Minister to the Dominican Republic to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

I am informed that the Haitian Government has dispatched 400 men, artillery, and 1000 rifles, to Thomazeau, which the Dominican Government believes to be in aid of the revolutionists, and requests me to ask your assistance in procuring two fast gunboats with good batteries.

Russell.