No. 112.
Mr. Wing to Mr. Fish.
United
States Legation,
Quito,
Ecuador, December 1,
1871. (Received Jan. 15, 1872.)
No. 165.]
Sir: In accordance with your instructions in
dispatch No. 58, of the Department, I at once addressed a communication
to Minister Leon, of which accompaniment (1) herewith is a copy. Nos. 2
and 3 are copy and translation of the answer received from this
government. I may add that your instructions in the premises have given
very lively satisfaction to this government, as I am personally
aware.
I am, &c,
[Inclosure 1 in No. 165.]
Mr. Wing to Mr.
Leon.
United
States Legation, Quito,
Ecuador, November 23,
1871.
Sir: I have recently received instructions
from his excellency, Hon. Hamilton Fish, the American Secretary of
State, to express to the government of Ecuador the, sense of
pleasure with which the President of the United States has observed
the cordial and complimentary terms in which your excellency has
referred to the Government and people of the United States, in your
recent report to the Ecuadorian congress. It is with great personal
pleasure that I have the honor to obey these instructions.
Such interchanges of confidence and courtesy are calculated to draw
more closely the ties of our commou republicanism and reciprocal
friendship. With assurances of my very distinguished consideration
have, &c,
[Inclosure 3 in No.
165.—Translation.]
Mr. Leon to Mr.
Wing.
Foreign
Office of Ecuador,
Quito, November 23,
1871.
The undersigned, minister of foreign affairs of Ecuador, has viewed
with the liveliest satisfaction the contents of the esteemed note
that his excellency, the resident minister of the American Union,
has been pleased to send him under to-day’s date, informing him that
he has received express instructions from his excellency Hamilton
Fish to manifest, in the name of his excellency President Grant, his
pleasure and appreciation at the just and merited estimation set
forth in his report to the legislative bodies of his country,
relative to the Government and people of the United States. The
undersigned, gratified at this manifestation, complies with the
pleasurable and essential duty of signifying to his excellency
Rumsey Wing, in his own name and that of his government, the sincere
cordiality with which he has received this act of courtesy, and
gives his excellency the most expressive thanks for the solicitous
interest that he has shown in the exact fulfillment of his
trust.
The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to reiterate to
his excellency the honorable minister the expression of his esteem
and distingushed consideration, &c.
