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To Your Excellency Admiral and Minister
of the Navy and the Colonies
Paris
Venice, 2nd October, 1869
Dear Minister,
I have the honour of informing Your Excellency that the Empress
arrived in Venice today at 3 o’clock in the morning.
I went to the station with some of the Aigle’s boats to fetch
Her Majesty who immediately came on board.
The first thing she did was to notice the effects of the alterations
she had requested during her last voyage; she seemed surprised
at how quickly they had been carried out and found everything
to her satisfaction. She told me more than once how very pleased
she was.
Her Majesty is in excellent health.
The Aigle’s departure for the Piraeus seems set for 7th of this month;
it will therefore arrive during the evening of 10th.
Your Excellency may perhaps deem it necessary to advise the Admiral,
captain of the Levant station, of this by confidential telegraph
as he is expecting the yacht to arrive on the morning of 11th.
Your Excellency’s most devoted servant,
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