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AIEXICO.

31Ex aco, Mtv 20.

The Journal or Mexico publishes the following in its non-official
part :
" We are authorized to publish the correspondence which has
arisen from the arrival of M. Martin, appointed as Commercial
Agent of France, by Vice-Admiral Duperre.' We hope that our
:ciders, on hearing the result of this negotiation, will be able to op.
pit:elate the prudence which Government has displayed in it. The
speedy publication alibis correspondence is an evident proof of
the noble frankness with which a pagalat tiovesnment subedits its
conduct to public judgment, and it is a contrast to the silence and
dark mysteries of despotic chanceries.
" On board his moat Christian Majesty's frigate la Nymplie,
in the read of Vera Cruz, 17th April, 1821 h
" Sir,—l have the honour to announce to your Excellency, the
arrival of the King's frigate, lot Nymphe, and to seed you & de-
spatch of his £xcellenq Vice-Admiral' Duperre, Corasuander-in-
Chief of the French naval forces at the Antilles and the Gulf of
Mexico, and with it a letter of N. Murphy. M. Martin, appointed
to fill the office of Superior Commercial Agent in Mexico, is on
beard the frigate. The despatch of the Admiral will apprize you
of the object which the French Government has had in view in
sending 31. Martin.
I congratulate myself on having been appointed by the Admi-
ral to give your Excellency an atieurance of its amicable dirposi-
lion to maintaiq the mast perfect harmony between the two coun-
tries. 1 add to the present letter, a copy of the orders which have
been given me by the Admiral, to demand front the Government of
Mexico the admission and installation of 31. Martin. Gen. Par-
rayon, who has received us with the greatest kindness, having had
the goodness to f•vonr our immediate departure for Mexico, we
shall set out with M. Abstain to-morrow, for that capital.
" I am, with the greatest consideration, tac.
JAVQI.7 ES CUV ILIA Ea, Captain,
" Commanding his Majesty's frigate La Nymph."
" On board the Amphitrite, Fort Royal, Martinico,
" 11th March, It
"Sir,—llis Moat Christian Majesty, who maintains an impos-
ing naval force at die Antilles and the Gulf of Mexico, under my
command, has again confided to Die the care of making his flag
respected. and of protecting the commerce of his subjects. (ht the
demand of AL Murphy, agent at Paris, authorized by M. Rocca.
fuerte, Charge d'Affairs of the Mexican Government at London. his
Majesty has authorized the establishment of Mexican commercial
agencies in the ports of his kingdom. lie has thought that tho
adoption of such a measure in the ports of Mexico would contribute
to facilitate and extend the cumnicrcial relations already established
between the two countries. Ile has ordered nie, in consequence,
through the medium of the Count of Chabrol, his Minister for the
Marine and the Colonies, to demand from the Government of Mex-
ico the establishment of a superior agent of French commerce. He
has and orized rue to accredit him with his Excellency the Presi-
dent of the Republic of Mexico, itt quality of superior commercial
&Fent delegated by the Adtiairal, commanding in chief at the An.
" This superior agent, whose only object will be to preserve the
harmony and good tatth which must secure the succes's of our com-
mercial relations, will also be the sole medium of those which I
shall have to maintain, so the name of the King, with the Govern-
ment of Mexico, confined always to the interests of conmierce.
" I charge Captain Cuvillier to conduct 31. Mar:in to Vera
Cruz. Ile will have the honour to inform your Excellency of his
arrival—of the motive which conducts hint to one of the ports of
the Republic, and will transmit to you my despatch, with a letter
of ill. Murphy.
" According to the answer of your Excellency, M. Martin will
either go immediately to Mexico, or he will present the credentials
which I ant authorized to deliver to him.
" The choice of M. Martin, who, completely acquainted with
mar intentions. sod whose frank and loyal character will doubtless
be appreciated by your Excellency, is a reciprocal guarantee for
beth partiea.
" Immediately after theestatillsbanent of this agent in the ca-
pital, his first care will be to elect; to the different ports of the Re-
public, secondary agents to watch over the interests of commerce.
and to execute under his direction (in each of the ports where they
may be placed) the game duties which are confided to him as prin.
cipal. I have ordered him to make choice of the moat recom-
mendable agents estatlished in the different ports, and those who
present the best guarantees for the interests of both countries. I
authorize him to appoint them, Amid to demand fur each of them a
separate recognition.
" I chap Captain Cuvillier to Five to your Excellency the
assurance of my disposition to maintain, during my command, the
greatest harmony in our relations, such being the intention and the
orders of my Sovereign-
" 11. Martin will also be charged to renew and preserve them.
" Receive, &c. " Dver.este,
" Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces of his
Majesty, in the Antilles and Gulf of Mexico."
" To Captain Cuvillier, Commander of his
Majesty's frigate La Nymphe."

" 31Exteo, May 11, 18211.
Sir,--I have had the pleasure to receive the letter which you have
addressed to me from the bay of Vera Cruz on the 17th April, with
the despatches which it incloses from Vice-Admiral Duperre, Com-
mender-in-Chief on the station of the Antilles, and from M.
Murphy, Mexican Agent at Paris. I have not answered it earlier,
because you announced to me your speedy arrival in this capital
with 31. Alexandre Martin.
" The arrival of his Most Christian Majesty's frigate I.ti Nymphs
in one of the ports of the Republic, and the cause of the voyage,
have been as agreeable as the results which may be expected from
it, if by this means it be intended to arrive by a frank and sincere
communication at the formation and consolidation of the connexions
between two countries, called by their interests and their reciprocal
conveniences to unite together in the ties of the most perfect friend-
ship.
The admission and installation of M. Martin, in the public
character of Superior Agent of French Commence, depend en-
tirely on the nature of his credentials ; and his Excellency the Pre-
sident of the Republic, to whom I have had the honour of pre-
senting them, would have considered it his dory to accept them
immediately, if they had been drawn up in the form generally re-
cognised and consecrated by the custom of nations ; but this cus-
tom having been altered in an obvious manner, there not only re-
sult from it several temporary obstacles, but if once tolerated there
might arise from it many embarasaments and difficulties in its future
relations, as well with France as with other powers. I can only
then refer in this respect to what I hare written this same dey to
31. 31 artin•
I take advantage of this opportunity to offer you my semi-
menus of proiliund respect. (Signed) " CAMALIIO."

" TO M. VICTOR ALEXANDRE 3IARTIN.
" Palace of Mexico, Bth May, 1026.
" Sir,—With your note of the let of this month, have had the
honour to receive the letters patent which it encloses from his Ex-
cellency Vice-Admiral Duperre, Commander-in-Chief of the naval
forces of his 31ost Christian Majesty, which accredit you, from the
Supreme Government of the United Mexican States, in the capa-
city of Superior Agent of French Commerce.
" Although the practice generally received among nations re-
quites that such appointment should be preceded by the indispen-
sable formalities of the immediate suction of the Sovereign or
Chief of the State, yet his Excellency the President of the Enited
Mexisan States, always disposed to favout, as much as depends
upon hito..the maintenance. anal consalidation of friendship and
good harmony with France and every other Power, would have
considered himself bound, for the moment, to depart from those
principles, by authorising your installation, and by coming you to
be recognised, if the Agent of Mcxico at Paris, appointed by M.
Roccafuerte, had been publicly admitted and recognised in the cha-
racter which he bears ; but you cannot be ignorant that M. Murphy,
for whom the French Governttient has in other particulars testified
the greatest respect, has not been authori•ted under that title, and
has not been enabled to exercise his functions publicly, which ex.
plains, no doubt, the silence remarked in the discourse of his Most
Christian Majesty, touching the relation with Mexico, though
that discourse is lung posterior to the mission of Admiral Duperre,
and to the choice which had been made of you to begin these rela-
tions.
"A perfect reciprocity is the basis of the dispositions of the Go-
vernment. M. Murphy is considered, at Paris, as a confidential
agent, and you may reside ID the same character in the territory of
the Republic. You may execute on this footing the instruction of
your Government, as to what concerns the interests of commerce,
till his Most Christian Majesty, on being informed by you of what
has passed, shall be accredited in due farm. In that case, and with
the assurance given to the Government of Mexico, that its agents,
with similar dispositions prevailing in France in favour of their re-
ception and installation, whit the enjoyment of the prerogatives
attached to their employment—you, or any other person designated
by you, will be received according to all the forms used in such
ases.
es.
The Government of his Most Christian Majesty cannot doubt
for a moment of the continued good dispositions of the United
Mexican States, to establish with France the roost active relations, in
cpnformity with the proofs given of it in the protection granted to
k tench commerce, is well at sea as in the ports of the Republic—in
the hospitality always lavished upon French subjects, and eapeciaily
in the nomination of an agent, charged to induce the French Monarch
to send them his representatives, even when France appeared to
place herself in a doubtful attitude with regard to them. For the
same reason it is to be hoped that, alter taking so independent a

• When we were informed of the pitiful subterfuge employed by
the French government to reconcile two things. so incompatible as
the demands of sound policy and the absurd requisitions of the
Holy Alliance, we foresaw what would happen. What can be more
ridiculous and more take than such a system. If it be necessary
as it seems to us to be, to send to the new Republics commercial
agents charged with the protection of trade and of French nterchnnt,
let established precedent be followed.--4VOr by 114 c French Edit(l..