Mr. Sickles to Mr. Fish
Sir: This being the usual reception day at the ministry of state, I availed myself of the opportunity to pay my respects to Mr. Martos, and to ask for a reply to my note dated the 7th instant. After a brief allusion on my part to the topics of the day, the minister stated that he had read my note attentively, and found it entirely satisfactory in all essential particulars; that he noted a few slight amendments, to which he had no doubt I would assent, as they would remove any possible ground for conflicting interpretations of the articles in question. He then sent for Mr. Millan y Caro, the official in charge of the papers, and read to me the modifications he desired. They did not in any manner deviate from your instructions, and I assented to them. Mr. Martos then stated that his amendments would be put in form and sent to me, to be incorporated in an engrossed copy of our agreement, which I promised to submit to him for his approval. I reserve my comment upon these amendments for the dispatch transmitting a translation of them.
I am, &c.,