Show A diplomatic SENSATION diplomatic DIPLOMAT rc circles in this country countr y are seldom stirred u up P as they have been over the letter written by the british ambassador at washington neon lord sackville west giving advice to to a voter respecting a choice or far president some time since lord reduced red lived a letter from C california all whA abic purported to have been written by a naturalized british subject named who desired the advice of the british minister a as to how bw he should vote in the coming presidential election the british envoy was foolish enough to give the advice asked for not hot only did be do this but he reviewed the policy of president cleveland at some length taking the view that his retaliatory message was intended for campaign purposes principally and that should he be elected his bis course respecting canada would oe be conciliatory and friendly lord sackville advised his bis correspondent to vote for cleveland the los angeles published tha british ministers letter vouching for its and claiming to have ave the original in its possession A sensation in official and newspaper circles covering the entire country followed the publication of toe letter there were widespread doubts a as s to whether the british min minister istee had actually committed such a blunder as to write it but these were set at rest yesterday by his bis confession to a press representative that it was genuine his defense at first was anat he had bad a right to privately express his bis personal views that the letter was a confidential and ul unofficial lofficial communication and that he be should not be censured in consequence of the treachery of the recipient in it public later however it transpired that lord sackville had no personal keow knowledge ledge of nor requal acquaintance with his california correspondent and acid from statements made by him as given in our dispatches today he appears to have reached the conclusion that thai he has been entrapped secretary bayard take the same view which is doubtless ope ue political wire workers in bordero secure their own ends have by a stratagem elicited from the british britis I 1 minister an endorsement ot of cleveland and a ot bis big canadian policy with the result that the enemies orthe of the president can BOW apparently with better reason than heretofore denourie deao deno him as the jae british cand candidate and question the sincerity of his bis course and utterances respecting canada for a foreign diplomatic officer to write such a letter to an american citizen is a gross breach of embassy dorial et etiquette quette ven under the strictest seal peal of privacy his bis risk in so doing would be too great to be justifiable done and when lord sackville Sack vill wrote as he did to the suppositious suppositions british american in search of good advice he in the language of the new york tribune invited his big own dismissal missal 1 the new york papers are greatly exercised exercisers rl upon the subject republican and democratic journals alike urge the removal of the addi creet diplomatist the sun democratic calls upon secretary bayard to give him his als passports and send him home the rhe matl mail and ami express republican ays it is the duty ot the administration to send him bim hodoe 11 the spirit of american independence pen dence deuce voiced by these and other newspapers vigorously resents the slightest foreign interference in elections that lord sackville has made a grave blunder canant be denied but whether it will result in his recall is doubtful the trick by which be was caught is too transparent and contemptible temp tible to result in appreciable injury to president cleveland |