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The recent note of Prince Gortschakof
to Mr.. Curtin is regarded by high officials
at Washington, as a direct and open in
suit to the President and Secretary of
State, and as likely to lead to serious re-
suits. 1t is said the country need not be
surprised if Mr.. Curtin, our Minister to
Russia, is Immediately ordered to demand
his passports, and the Russian Charge DAT
fairs, at Washington, be supplied with
his, in order that he may leave the Unit
| ed States.
The following interesting cable dis
patch. covering the offensive note, appears
in the New York Herald, of the 18th
inst
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. II, 1871.
The note of the Imperial Chancellor,
Prince Gortschakof, to Mr.. Curtin, the
| United States Minister at st. Petersburg,
with regard to NJ. Catacazy, has been pub
lished in Messenger Official (newepaper).
which is an unusual course for the Rus
sian government, and has betn adopted in
order to express resentment at the treat
ment and peremptory dismissal of NJ.
Catacazy by President Grant and Seere-
tary Fish. .
The following is a correct translation of
the note, which is published in French:
Nj. Constantine Catacazy. Envoy Ex-
t~raordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the United States, has peer ordered to
come back to Russia as soon as His Impe-
rial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis has
taken his departure from the United
States.
an. Catacazy was at the same time in
formed that he will not return to the post
of Washington, but that his recall will be
final, in compliance with the request OF
the United States government.
The government of his Imperial Males
ty regrets that the painful affair did not
terminate with this, as it was reasonably
to be expected.
The acquiescence by the imperial gov
eminent of Russia in the request ofSecrc-
tary Fish ought then, by the rule of cour-
tesy between two friendly nations, to have
been considered as a final settlement of
the question.
In the subsequent correspondence on
the part of Secretary Fish there was, how
ever, neither sufficient attention nor prop
er respect shown to q Russian Ambassa-
dor performing duties such as he had a
.,-It - oyranf from fho nOy-ornnonnt tn
which he was accredited.
The letter of Secretary Fish presents
serious though vague complaints against
NJ. Catacazy, and thus invites the imperi-
al Cabinet to judge the conduct of its re-
preventative.
I'm the opinion of the government of
His Majesty, the Emperor, NJ. Catacazy
has satisfactorily refuted many of thes Sc
complaints; on the others the imperial
Cabinet will deliver its Judgment when
NJ. Catacazy has had full liberty to pre-
sent his case.
1.-The imperial Chancellor hopes that
justice is sufficiently understood in the
United States not to expect it before"
The tone of the whole note is n of
studied insolence and of resentment a
gainst President Grant and Secretary
Fish.
1t is certain that Prince Gortchakof has
lost his temper at what, as he privately
expressed, he considers an insult to Rus
STA.
There is good ground for stating that
in all probability, N. Catacazy only obey
ed the orders of his government that in
bis conduct with regard to the Perkins
claim, and his attempt to prevent the con-
%clusion of the Treaty of Washington, he
followed ont to its full extent the ~instruc-
lions of Prince Gortschakof.
Thus the Catacazy catastrophe is a re-
buke to the Imperial Chancellor himself.
Notwithstanding the defiant reproof to
the United States government, the note of
the Prince closes with expressions of o
tinued amity.
1t is, however, an unquestionable fact
| that there is a decided GOODNESS in tho re
lations of the two governments.