228 AVES ISLAND. 



manner in wliicli you have in that note presented it for adjustment, 

 It is only to "be regretted that from any untoward circumstances so 

 long a time has elapsed before you were enabled, in your judgment 

 satisfactorily, to demand that consideration of the subject to which its 

 importance and the extent of interests involved entitled it. 



Your No. 37 was received on the 14th instant. The department 

 hopes to receive the reply of Venezuela to your note of the 31st March, 

 by the next mail from Caraccas. 



I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



LEWIS CASS. 



Charles Eames, Esq., dc. 



Inclosures. 



Duplicate of instruction No. 37, with its inclosure. 



[' " " " 38, '^ '' inclosure. 



Original, No. 44. 



45. 



" 46, with its inclosure. 



Mr. Eames to Mr. Cass. 



No. 38.] Legation OF THE United States, 



Caracas, June 13, 1857. 



Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on the 23d ultimo, 

 of yoiu' Nos. 49 and 50, under dates respectively of 1st and 3d of 

 April last, being the latest dispatches received from the department. 

 But Nos. 37, 38, 44, 45, and 46, are still wanting. All the duplicates 

 of them referred to in your No. 49, as having been forwarded early in 

 February last, having failed to reach this legation : thus making a loss 

 in all, duplicates and originals, of not less than ten dispatches from 

 the department since August last, most of them appearing to relate to 

 the Aves claim. For the reasons stated in my No. 36, under date of 

 1st April last, I am convinced that those duplicates, like their originals, 

 never reached Laguayra. 



With reference to my No. 36, and its inclosures, relating to the Aves 

 claim, I have now the honor to transmit, inclosed, copies of further 

 correspondence wdth this government on that subject, being three 

 notes addressed to me by Mr. Gutierrez, under dates, respectively, of 

 28th ultimo, and 2d and 12th instant, with two notes addressed by me 

 to him, under dates of 29th ultimo and 11th instant. 



Your No. 49, of 1st April last, expressed the hope that the Aves 

 claim had already been finally and satisfactorily adjusted by this gov- 

 ernment, and referred to the probability that I might, at that time, be 

 on my way to the United States, under the leave of absence asked by 

 me to take effect in February last, and then granted. Such would 

 have been the case, had I not for four months past, and until now, 

 forborne to avail' myself of that leave in order to urge the Aves claim. 



But, by the correspondence now inclosed, the department will per- 



