Letter
Caleb Cushing to Hamilton Fish, August 31, 1875
No. 280. Mr. Cushing to Mr. Fish.
Legation of the United States, Madrid, August 31, 1875. (Received September 23.)
No. 497.]
Sir: In my dispatch to you, No. 487, of the 23d, I reported the statement of the minister of state that the promotion of Brigadier Burriel had been made in his absence and without his knowledge. I now remember that he also said it was done in the absence of the minister of ultramar. * * * * *
It has afforded me satisfaction * * * to receive information that the promotion was made * * * in the absence and without the knowledge * * * of the proprietary minister, General Jovellar.
I have, &c.,
C. CUSHING.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.