Letter

John Welsh to Marquis of Salisbury, January 30, 1879

[Inclosure 7 in No. 217.]

Mr. Welsh to Marquis of Salisbury.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Tenterden’s note of the 28th instant, and your lordship’s communication of yesterday, in relation to the motion made in the admiralty division of the high court of justice, for leave to arrest the United States frigate’ Constitution, and I have to express my thanks for the action taken by her Majesty’s Government in this matter.

I have, &c.,

JOHN WELSH.
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