Servando Ruiz Gomez to Hall, August 21, 1885

Señor Gomez to Mr. Hall.

Mr. Minister: With the certified copy, which I have the honor to inclose, of a letter addressed to this ministry by the consul-general of Honduras in New York, we are informed that the steamer City of Mexico has been purchased with the intention to send her to the north coast of this Republic in support of a revolutionary movement which it is asserted will take place here.

In presence of these data, emanating from a source in which my Government has all faith, the President has intsructed me to address you, and to invite your serious attention to the attempts which are directed towards a disturbance of the peace of this Republic, and which undoubtedly have their origin in New York, where some of the enemies of the present administration reside, and among whom figures in the first rank ex-President Don Marco Aurelio Soto.

In compliance, therefore, with these instructions, permit me to call your attention to this matter, and to beg that you will bring it to the knowleege of the Government of the United States, to the end that it may be pleased to instruct the proper authorities to exercise the greatest vigilance to prevent the departure from New York or from any other place in the United States of expeditions which may come to disturb the peace of this country or of any other of the sister Republics of Central America.

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