Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1875, Volume II

No. 603.
Mr. Cushing to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States,
Madrid, May 13, 1875. (Received June 1.)

No. 382.]

Sir: I have the satisfaction to report that the final payment on account of the “Virginius,” received by me on the 5th, as previously reported, has this day been remitted by me to London, by eight-day bills of Messrs. Bayo & Co. on Messrs. Murrieta & Go., and that thus the Spanish government, without availing itself of the six months’ time stipulated in the agreement of March 11, has voluntarily discharged its entire obligation in two months, for the purpose of showing its good faith and its good-will toward the United States.

I have, &c.,

C. CUSHING.