456 AVES ISLAND. 



before the government, unless, as is hoped may be the case, you may 

 already have succeeded in procuring the adjustment of the claim upon 

 the terms of the proposed compromise. 



No. 7, above referred to, is the last dispatch received from you. 

 I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



JOHN APPLETON, 



Assistant Secretary. 

 Edward Turpin, Esq., 



&c.. &c.. dc. 



List of Inclosures. 



A. — H. S. Sanford to Secretary of State — January 14, 1859. 



B. — Detailed statement of Lang & Delano's claim. 



C. — George McG-eorge's affidavit. 



D. — Charles H. Lang's affidavit. 



E. — L. Herrick's affidavit. • 



F. — George Wood Eice's affidavit. 



G. — Isaac B. Mills's affidavit. 



H.— N. N. Bridge's affidavit. 



I. — John H. B. Lang's affidavit. 



K. — James H. Phinney's affidavit. 



3Ir. Cass to Mr. Turpin. 



No. 14.] ^ Department of State, 



Washington, Fehruary 7, 1859. 

 Sir: At the request of Mr. Sanford I inclose herewith an attested 

 copy of the deposition of Captain Charles Penfield in support of the 

 claim of Lang & Delano, and to be considered in connection with the 

 proofs forwarded with the last dispatch to you, since the date of which 

 no communications have been received from you. 

 I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



LEWIS CASS. 

 E. A. Turpin, Esq., 



d., dc, dc. 



Mr. Turpin to Mr. Cass. 



No. 10.] Legation op the United States, 



Caraccas, February 8, 1859. 

 Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on the 3d Janu- 

 ary ultimo, of the department's No. 12, (previous numbers also re- 

 ceived,) together with its accompanying inclosure of a copy of a com- 



