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ON the grounds which you have stated.
have the honor to be, with great respect
and consideration, sir, your most obedient and
humble servant,
(Signed) WELL l1''l.t
LORD WELLESLEY 20 Mr.. PINKNE1
Foreign Office, February S, 1911.
SIR,
Having submitted to his royal highness the
prince regent, your desire to have an audi
epce of leave, with a view to your return to
America, am, commanded by his royal high
ness to inform you that he will be prepared to
receive YOU at Carleton House on Tuesday
the 10TH
AT the same time, an commanded to IN
form you that his royal highness, in the name
and on behalf Of his ma esty, has been pleas
ed to appoint Augustus Foster, Esq Qateiy
charged with his majesty's affairs in Swedcn)
to be his maicsty's envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary, to the United States
I have the honor to be, sir, with great re-
spect and consideration, your most faithful
and humble servant
(Signcd) WELLESLEY
Mr.. Pinkney to the Secretary Of State
London, February Is, 1911.
SIR,
The result of my reflections on lord Wei
!esley's two communications otthe l5th m
slant, will be found in my letter to him OF
Yesterdays date, of which now transmit
copy.
1t appeared to me that the appointment OF
minister plenipotentiary to the United States
was nothing, or rather worse, than nothing, II
the orders in council were to remain IN force,
the blockade of May 1906 to be unrepealed,
the affair of the Chesapeake to continue at
large, and theother urgent questions between
Us TO remain unsettled.
The posture of our relations as you
have expressed it in your letter OF the 18th
of November, would not be 6 satisfactorily
changed" merely by such an appointment;
and of course my distinctions could not be re-
sumed upon the sole foundation OF It,
have put it to lord Wellesley to say eX-
plicitly whether full and satisfactory arrange
ment is intended, before answer his official
letter concerning my audience oil leave. Ii he
is prepared to do at once what we require, or
to instruct the new minister to do at Washlng-
ton what does not demand Immediate inter-
ference here, shall think it my duty to for
bear to take my leave on the Goth instant. If
he declines frank reply, or refuses our de-
mands, l shall press for my audience and put
an end to my mission.
have the honor to be, &c.,
VIM PINKNEY.
The Secretary of State Of the United States.
MR.. PINKNEr 10 LORD WELLESLEY.
Great Cumberland Place,
February II, 1911.
My LORD,
Before I,reply to your official communica-
ton of the 5th instant, you will perhaps allow
me, in acknowledging the receipt of the un-
| official paper which accompanied it, to trou-
| bic you with few words.
| From the appointment, which you have
| done me the honor to announce to me, OF mi
| mister plenipotentiary to the United States, as
well as from the language of your private let
| ter, conclude, that it is the intention Of the
| British government to seek Immediately those
! adjustments with America, without which
| that appointment can produce no beneficial eff
| feet presume that for the restoration of har-
mony between the two countries, the orders
in council, will be relinquished without de-
| lay, that the blockade of May 1906 will be
annulled, that the case of the Chesapeake
will be arranged in the manner heretofore in
| tended, and, in general, that all such just
| and reasonable acts will be done as are neces.
sary 10 make US friends.
! My motives will not, am sure, be misin.
terpreted, if, anxious to be enabled so to regu'
late my conduct in the execution of my in.
structions, as that the best results may be &C
complished, take the liberty to request sucl
explanations on these heads as your lordshiI
may :hink fit to give me.
| ought to add that, as the levee of his roy
al Eighness the prince regent has been post
poned until Tuesday the 26th instant, hay,
supposed that my audience of leave is post
poned to the same day, and that have, OF
that ground undertaken to delay my reply tt
! your official communication until Ireceive al
answer to this letter.