Mr. Hunter to Sir F. Bruce
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 22d instant, transmitting to me a copy of a despatch of the 17th instant from Viscount Monck, the governor general of Canada, announcing the adoption of certain measures by his excellency upon receiving intelligence of the assassination of the President of the United States, and requesting you to communicate to this government, on the part of the government and people of Canada, their feelings of abhorrence of the crime, and sympathy at the loss which has been sustained by the government and citizens of the United States.
I must beg you to convey to his excellency, in reply, the assurance that the spontaneous and hearty manifestations of grief and sympathy are most gratefully appreciated by the government and people of this country.
I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your obedient servant,
Hon. Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, &c., &c., &c.