Mr. Olney to Mr. Dupuy de Lôme.

No. 107.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I have just received a telegram of which the following is a copy:

American schooner William Todd, en route Mobile here, fired on [by] Spanish gunboats off Isle Pines before flag hoisted. Afterwards searched; futile. Report mailed.

Eckford, Kingston.

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I shall communicate with you further upon the receipt of the report referred to.

I give you this notice of telegram received, that you may cause such investigation to be set on foot as you may think proper.

I avail, etc.,

Richard Olney.