our resignation of the office
of Minister Resident and Consul-General of the United States to
Hayti, and to inform you that it is accepted.

I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without expressing to you
the appreciation of the Department of the very satisfactory
manner in which you have discharged the duties of the mission at
Port au Prince during your term of office. This commendation of
your services is the more especially merited, because at various
times your duties have been of such a delicate nature as to have
required the exercise of much tact and discretion.

I enclose herewith a letter addressed by the President of the
United States to the President of Hayti, announcing your
retirement from the mission at Port au Prince, together with an
office copy of the same. You will transmit the latter to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and make arrangements for the
delivery of the original to the President when your successor
shall present his credentials.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed.) F. W. SEWARD, _Acting Secretary_.

(TRANSLATION.)

BOISROND CANAL, _President of the Republic of Hayti_,
_To His Excellency the President of the United States of America_.

GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND: Mr. Ebenezer D. Bassett, who has resided
here in the capacity of Minister of the United States, has placed
in my hands the letter by which your Excellency has brought his
mission to an end.

In taking leave of me in conformity with the wishes of your
Excellency, he has renewed the assurance of the friendly
sentiments which so happily exist on the part of the Government
and the people of the United States toward the Government and the
people of the Republic of Hayti.

I have not failed to request him to transmit to your Excellency,
the expression of my great desire to maintain always the
relations of the two Countries upon the footing of that cordial
understanding.

It is for me a pleasing duty to acknowledge fully to your
Excellency, the zeal and the intelligence with which Mr. Bassett
has fulfilled here the high and delicate functions that had been
entrusted to him.

I have, therefore, been happy to be able to testify to him
publicly before his departure, in the name of my f