terms referred to, it gives me pleasure to accede to the suggestion made to me by you. It is my duty, however, to signify to your Excellency that, as was expressed in our last conference, the failure by either of the Congresses to approve of the Protocol of the 9th December and the Protocol drawn up by us explanatory of the same implies a disagreement upon a fundamental basis of the Treaties of May which shall thereby become wholly without effect. Señor Heriberto Gutierrez. I renew, &c., ADOLFO GUERRERO. (3.)-The Bolivian Envoy to the Chilean Minister for Foreign (Translation.) SIR, Affairs. Legation of Bolivia in Chile, YOUR Excellency has been good despatch of yesterday the proposal that I had the honour to make in my despatch of the same date relative to the continuity of Chilean territory. In finally disposing of that declaration, I am to announce to your Excellency my perfect agreement with the contents of the second part of your despatch above mentioned, in order that it shall remain established that the failure by either of the Congresses to approve of the Protocol of the 9th December and the Protocol drawn up by us explanatory of the san e implies a disagreement upon a fundamental basis of the Treaties of May which shall thereby become wholly without effect. I renew, &c., Señor Adolfo Guerrero. H. GUTIERREZ. |