No. 391.
Mr. Rublee to Mr.
Fish.
No. 53.]
Legation of the United States, Berne,
July
5, 1871. (Received July 25.)
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
your dispatches to No. 45, inclusive.
I inclose herewith a copy of a note which I addressed to the President of the
Swiss Confederation, communicating the substance of your No. 43 in regard to
the protection of Swiss citizens, in certain cases, by the diplomatic and
consular agents of the United States, together with the reply of the
President, expressive of the gratitude of the Federal Council for the
promptness with which the Government of the United States has complied with
its wishes upon the subject in question.
I am, &c.,
Mr. Rublee to the
President of the Swiss Confederation
The undersigned, minister resident of the United States, has the honor to
inform you that he has acquainted his Government with the desire
expressed by your excellency that the diplomatic and consular agents of
the United States, in places in which there are no such representatives
of Switzerland, might be instructed to extend protection to such
citizens of Switzerland as may seek such protection. In reply I am
notified by the Secretary of State of the United States that circular
instructions, in compliance with the wishes of the government of
Switzerland, will be addressed to the ministers and consular
representatives of the United States, directing them to extend such
protection.
The undersigned seizes the occasion to renew to your excellency and the
members of the high Federal Council the assurances of his high
consideration.
[Translation.]
The President of the Swiss
Confederation to Mr.
Rublee.
The Federal Council has had the honor of receiving the note which Mr.
Horace Rublee addressed to it on the 27th of June last, informing him
that the Government of the United States of America has given to its
diplomatic and consular agents, at places where Switzerland has no
representatives, proper instructions that they may extend their
protection to such Swiss citizens as may solicit it.
While thanking the minister resident of the United States of America for
this communication, the Federal Council begs that he will convey, on its
behalf, to the Government of the Union its sentiments of warm gratitude
for the interest which it has taken in complying with the wishes
expressed to it on this subject, and further avails itself of this
occasion to renew to Mr. Horace Rublee the assurances of its high
consideration.
In the name of the Federal Council,
SCHENK, President of the
Confederation.
