682 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



Mr. Evarts to Mr. Hoppin. 



[Telegram.] 



WASHINGTON, February %6, 1880. 

 HOPPIN, Charge, London: 



(Stating the increased chagrin with which this government learns, 

 from his No. 147, of there being even a possibility of an additional 

 month's delay, and directing him to urge Her Majesty's Government 

 to avoid it if possible.) 



EVARTS. 



Mr. Hoppin to the Marquis of Salisbury. 



LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, 



London, February 27, 1880. 



MY LORD: I have the honor to acquaint you that I received from 

 the honorable the Secretary of State, last evening, a further telegram 

 in relation to the delay of Her Majesty's Government in answering 

 our claims for damages on account of the proceedings at Fortune 

 Bay. 



Your lordship will be good enough to remember that on the 7th 

 instant, in the absence of your lordship, I had a conversation with Sir 

 Julian Pauncefote at the foreign office on this subject, and gave him 

 a copy of the cable dispatch I had received from Mr. Evarts the day 

 before. 



Afterwards, on the 12th instant, I received from Sir Julian a note 

 in relation to this matter, a copy of which I sent to Mr. Evarts on the 

 14th, having already telegraphed the substance of it to him on the 

 13th instant. 



During our conversation on the 7th of February, when I pressed Sir 

 Julian Pauncefote for an approximate statement of the time within 

 which we might expect your lordship's reply to our claims, he inti- 

 mated that it would certainly be given within a month from that 

 date, and I so informed Mr. Evarts in a dispatch of the 10th of 

 February. 



In the cable message which I have now received, Mr. Evarts states 

 that he learns with "' increased chagrin," from my dispatch to him 

 last mentioned, " of even a possible further delay of one month," and 

 he instructs me to " urge its avoidance if possible." 



I lose no time, therefore, in bringing this subject again to your 

 lordship's attention, and in expressing the disquiet which Mr. Evarts 

 feels that an answer to these claims which were brought to the notice 

 of Her Majesty's Government so long ago as the 13th of August last 

 may possibly be still further delayed. 



I have, &c., W. J. HOPPIN. 



TJie Marquis of Salisbury to Mr. Hoppin. 



FOREIGN OFFICE, March 0, 1880. 



SIR : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your commu- 

 nication of the 27th ultimo, informing me that you had'ori the even- 

 ing of the preceding day received a further telegram from Mr. Evarts 



