Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1884

No. 374.
Mr. Valera to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

[Translation.]

Legation of Spain,
Washington, April 14, 1884. (Received April 15.)

The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Spain, has the honor to inform the honorable Secretary of State of the United States that, according to a communication which he has just received from the Spanish consul at New Orleans, a new expedition is being prepared there which will set out from the Gulf in the course of a week, or sooner, with the purpose of effecting a landing in Cuba.

The undersigned begs the honorable Secretary of State, Mr. Frelinghuysen, to be pleased to cause the proper steps to be taken to prevent such an expedition from being effected, and improves, &c.

JUAN VALERA.