DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE.                      189 
[Translation.] 
SANTIAGO, October 10, 1864. 
SIR: By the official note which your excellency did me the honor to address

me on the 7th instant, I have been made aware of the satisfaction with which

your government and the people of the United States have received the mani-

festations of friendship and sympathy of which they were the object in Chili,

upon the occasion of the late anniversary of the independence of that republic,

and of the friendly sentiments with which they cordially correspond to those

which animate this country. 
His excellency the President of the republic, to whom I gave account of the

instructions in the premises which your excellency informs me you have received

from the most excellent Secretary of State of the United States, has felt
highly 
flattered thereby, and has charged me to signify to your excellency the sincere

satisfaction with which he has welcomed this new evidence of the good friend-

ship and reciprocity between the government and the people of the United

States and the people and government of Chili. 
My government heartily joins in the grateful confidence expressed to me by

your excellency, that such sentiments may ever exist between the United States

and this republic, and that all those of America may be indissolubly united
by 
these same bonds of friendship and sympathy. 
I have the honor to reiterate to your excellency the expression of my most

distinguished consideration and esteem, with which I am your excellency's

most obedient servant, 
ALVARO COVARRUBIAS. 
The ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY 
of the United States. 
[Translation.] 
[L. S.]                                 SANTIAGO, September 29, 1864. 
SIR: I have the honor to transmit to your excellency a copy of the decla-

ration issued by his excellency the President of the republic in regard to
coal 
destined for the vessels-of-war of a nation engaged in hostile operations.

Will your excellency be pleased to accept the reiterated expressions. of
the 
distinguished consideration with which I am your excellency's most obedient

servant, 
ALVARO COVARRUBIAS. 
The ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY 
of the United States of America. 
[Translation.] 
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN RELATIONS, 
Santiago de Chili. 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHILI. 
To all to whom these presents may come, greeting: Considering, 1st, that,

according to the principles and rules generally adopted by civilized nations,
all 
coal intended for the public vessels of onenation engaged in hostile operations

against another must be considered, and, in fact, has been considered, as
an ar- 
tidle contraband of war;