No. 7.
The Earl of
Derby to Mr. Comyn.
Foreign
Office, December 18,
1874.
M. le Ministre: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, inclosing a check on Messrs. Huth & Co., of this city, to my order, for the sum of £6,700, on account of the claims of the families of the British subjects taken on board the Virginius and executed at Santiago de Cuba in November, 1873.
I have, &c.,
DERBY.