Manuel Bustamente to W. T. Coggeshall, United States, March 1, 1867

Señor Bustamente to Mr. Coggeshall

The second dividend of the North American debt, which was due on the 17th ultimo, has been paid at Guayaquil. I have the honor to communicate this information to your excellency that you may acquaint your government of the fact, and I hope it will, upon receiving this intelligence, acknowledge the punctuality of Ecuador in executing its engagements.

I beg to assure your excellency that if the same punctuality was not observed in the past year, it was involuntary causes which occasioned a short delay, contrary to the wishes of this government.

I hasten to offer to your excelleney the testimony of my attachment, subscribing myself your obedient servant,