The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-27 00:00:00

SPAIN AND MOROCCO.

The following is the official correspondence re-
lating to the Spanish occupation of Tangier on
the coast of Morocco, presented to both Houses of
Parliament by command of her Majesty :

" No. 1.
" LORD J. RUSSELL TO MR. BUCHANAN.

" Foreign-office, Sept. 22,
.1859.
" Sir,—With reference to the preparations mak-
ing in Spain with a view to hostilities in Morocco,
I wish you to observe to the President of the Coun-
cil, and to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the
differences between the Governments of Spain and
Morocco appear to have arisen from outrages com-
mitted by Moors in the vicinity of Ceuta, but that
those outrages appear to have been provoked by the
excitements and defiances of the Governor of Ceuta;

that a wild and untamed race seem to have become
ungovernable, and to have made hostile attacks
against the Spanish garrison of Ceuta.
" That if the Spanish Government only seek re-
dress for wrongs, and vindication of their honour,
her Majesty's Government will not interpose any
obstacle to their obtaining such reparation. But if
the outrages of the wild Moorish tribes are to be
made a ground for conquest, and especially on the
coast, her Majesty's Government are bound to look
to the security of the fortress of Gibraltar.

" You are therefore instructed to ask for a decla-
ration in writing, that if the Spanish troops should
in the course of hostilities occupy Tangier, that
occupation will be temporary, and will not extend
beyond the ratification of a treaty of peace between
Spain and Morocco. For an occupation till an in-
demnity is paid might become a permanent occu-
pation, and such permanent occupation her Ma-
jesty's Government consider inconsistent with the
safety of Gibraltar.
" Her Majesty's Government are sincerely de-
sirous of maintaining with Spain the most amicable
relations, but they are bound to provide for the
safety of her Majesty's possessions.—•l am,

" J. RUSSELI]."

" No. 2.
" Ma. BUCHAYAN TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
(Received October 12.)

" Madrid, Oct. 7, 1859.
" My Lord,—Having made M. Calderon Collautes
acquainted with the contents of your lordship's de-
spatch of the 22d ult., instructing mo to ask the
Spanish Government for a declaration in writing,
that if, in the event of a war between Spain and
Morocco, Tangier should be occupied by Spanish
troops, they will be withdrawn immediately after
the ratification of a treaty of peace, it was agreed
between us that I should address to his Excellency
the note of which I enclose the copy herewith for
your lordship's information ; and I received this
day from him an answer, of which a copy and trans-
lation are enclosed, and which I trust may prove
satisfactory to her Majesty's Government.
" I have, &c., " ANDREW BUCIIANAN."
" Enclosure 1 in No. 2.
" MR. BUCKANAN TO SENOR COLLANTES.

" Madrid, Sept. 27, 1859.
Sir,—Daring the discussions which took place
last winter between Spain and Morocco, respecting
the claims of Spanish subjects upon the Sultan's
Government and the zone round Melilla, I did not
fail to report to my Government the frequent assur-
ances which I received from your Excellency, that
the only object, at that time, of her Catholic Ma-
jesty's Government was to secure due protection to
her Majesty's fortress, and to her Majesty's subjects
residing in or trading with Morocco, and that they
had no intention whatever of making the questions
at issue a pretext for territorial aggrandisement in
Africa.

" These assurances were entirely confirmed by

the event, and I have been happy to learn from
the declaration contained i■ your Excellency's note
of the 26th inst., and from the verbal explanations
which you have afforded me, on repeated occasions
sinco the now difficulty which has arisen with

the Government of Morocco, that uo change has
taken place in the policy of the Spanish Govern-
ment, and that they seek for no conquests in
Africa, but only propose to obtain reparation for
offences which have been offered to them by the
Moors of Ceuta, and securities from the Government
of the Sultan for that fortress, and her Catholic
Majesty's other possessions in Africa, which will
effectually prevent a repetition of the conflicts
which have taken place, and maintain hereafter the
relations •f Spain w►th the Moroccan empire on a
satisfactory and honourable footing.
" The reports of my conversations with your Ex-
cellency will thus have already acquainted the
Government of the Queen my Sovereign with the
sentiments of moderation and justice which ai i
mate her Catholic Majesty's Government ; but it
would, notwithstanding, be a satisfaction to them,
considering the interest which they take in the
empire of Morocco, and the importance which they
attach to the commerce of Tangier with her
Majesty's possessions in the Mediterranean, to learn

from your xcellency that the great preparations
at present making with a view to military opera-
tions in Africa have not arisen from any change in
the views of her Catholic Majesty's Government,
and do not indicate any intentions on their part to
make conquests in Morocco, or to occupy perma•
nently any portion of the Sultan's territory.
" Feeling assured that your Excellency will
readily comply with the wish I have the honour to
express to you on this subject, I avail, &c.,
" ANDREW BUCHATIAN."
" Enclosure 2 in No. 2.
(Translation.)
" Palace, Oct. 6, 1859.
" Sir,—l have received the note which you had
the goodness to address to me on the 27th of the
month last past.
" The Government of the Queen my Sovereign,
while adopting the measures necessary to obtain, if
requisite by force of arms, the just reparation which
they have demanded from the Moroccan Govern.
ment, continue in their invariable intentions with

regard to that country—intentions of which you
are cognisant by means of the verbal statements
which I spontaneously made to you last year with
reference to the question of the Melilla, and which
have been confirmed by my subsequent notes to
you, and by the circular which I addressed on
the 24th of September to her Majesty's represen-
tatives at the Courts of Europe, with the contents
of which Don Xavier de Isturiz will have ac-
quainted her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs.
" The Cabinet of Madrid, as you are aware, do
not yield in this question to the impulse of a pre-
existing desire for territorial aggrandisement, but
are influenced alone by the sacred duty of defending
their dignity and the honour of the nation.
" They still preserve hopes that the conflict which
has arisen from the unprovoked aggression of which
the fortress of Melilla has been the object may ter-
minate peacefully; but if their conciliatory desires

should not be realised, they will endeavour to
obtain by other means the punishment of the aggres-
sors, the satisfaction which is due, and the conclu-
sion of agreements which may tend to give effica-
cious material guarantees for preventing the
repetition of similar outrages.
"It is to these objects that military operations,
should they commence, would be directed. In this
point of view it is easy to understand, knowing the
intentions of the Government of the Queen my
Sovereign, that whatever diminution the active
commerce which Great Britain maintains with
Tangier might suffer in consequence of war would
be of a transitory character ; since, when once the
treaty of peace which should put an end to the hos-
tilities between Spain and Morocco should be
ratified, and the questions now existing should be
settled favourably, and therefore definitively, the
Spanish Government, in the fulfilment of their in-
tentions, would not continue in the occupation of
that fortress, on the supposition that they should
have found themselves obliged to eAabllsh them-
selves there, in order to secure the favourable issue
of their operations.
" I avail, &c.,
" SATURNINO CALDERON COLLANTES."

" No. 3.
" LORD J. RUSSELL TO MR. BUCHANAN.

" Foreign-office, Oct. 15, 1859.

" Sir,—Her Majesty's Government have had
under their consideration the note addressed to
you by Senor Collantes on tho 6th of October, of
which a copy was enclosed in your despatch of the
following day, in reply to the demand for
explanations which you were instructed by my
despatch of Sept. 22 to require of him respecting
t'lo intentions of the Spanish Government in the
event of the occupation of Tangier by the Spanish
forces.

" You were instructed to apply to the Spanish
Government for a declaration in writing that, if the
Spanish troops should, in the course of hostilities,
occupy Tangier, that occupation would be tempo-
rary, and would not extend beyond the ratification
of a treaty of peace between Spain and Morocco ;
and in your note to Senor Collantes of the 27th of
September you said it would be a satisfaction to her
Majesty's Government to learn that the military
preparations of the Spanish Government did not
indicate any intentions on their part to make con-
quests in Morocco, or to occupy permanently any
portion of the Sultan's territory.
" Senor Collantes, in his reply of Oct. 6, states
that when once the treaty of peace which should
put an end to the hostilities between Spain and
Morocco should be ratified, the questions now exist-
ing being settled favourably, and therefore defini-
tively, the Spanish Government, in fulfilment of
their intentions, would not continue in the occupa-
tion of that fortress (Tangier), in the supposition
that they should have found themselves obliged to
establish themselves there in order to secure the
favourable issue of their operations.

" You will state to M. Collantes that her Ma-
jesty's Government accept with pleasure this assu-
rance, as conveying the declaration which, by my
despatch of Sept. 22, you were instructed to ask for.
" You will further state to his Excellency that
her Majesty's Government earnestly desire that
there may be no change of possessions on the
Moorish coast of the Straits. The importance
they attach to this object cannot be overrated ; and
it would be impossible for them, or, indeed, for any
other maritime power, to see with indifference the
permanent occupation by Spain of such a position
on that coast as would enable her to impede the
passage of the Straits to ships frequenting the Me-
diterranean for commercial or any other purposes.
" You will read this despatch to Senor Collantes,
and furnish his Excellency with a copy of it.
"I am, &c., "J. itussELL.”

" No. 4.

" MR. B UCHANAN TO LORD J,Ru.sELL.—(Received

October 29.)
"Madrid, Oct. 24, 1859.

"My Lord,—With reference to your lordihip's
telegrams of the 19th and 20th instant, on the sub-
ject of the alleged intention of Spain to obtain a
cession from Morocco of several miles of territory
on the coast of the Straits of Gibraltar, I have the
honour to enclose herewith the copy of a note
which I addressed to M. Calderon Collantes on the
21st instant, expressing the objection which her
Majesty's Government would entertain to the occu-
pation by Spain of the coast west of Ceuta ; and re•
questing his Excellency to name the points on that
coast which would be included in the rayon of the
fortress, if the views of her Catholic Majesty's
Government are carried into effect.

" I have also the honour to enclose the copy and
translation of an answer which I have received
from his Excellency, declaring distinctly that her
Catholic Majesty's Government have no intention
to occupy any point on the said coast, which would
give Spain a superiority that would be dangerous
to the navigation of the Straits.—l have, &c.,

" ANDREW BUCHANAN.
"Enclosure 1 to No. 4.
"MR. BUCHANAN TO SENOR COLLANTES.
" Madrid, Oct. 21, 1859.

" Sir,—The Government of the Queen my Sove-
reign have reason to believe, from the reports of her
Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Tangier, and from
the late declarations of her Catholic Majesty's Go-
vernment in the Cortes, that her Catholic Majesty is
about to declare war against the Emperor of Morocco,
in consequence of the Moorish Government having
declined a demand on the part of her Government
that certain territory lying between the fortress of
Ceuta and the mountainous ridge or Sierra of Bul-
lones should be ceded to Spain.

" From my verbal communications to your Excel-
lency on this subject, you are already aware that the
Government of the Queen my So7creign entertain
apprehensions that the cession to Spain of the ter-
ritory in question cannot take place without seri-
ously compromising the freedom of the navigation
of the Straits of Gibraltar; and it is therefore my
duty, in execution of instructions which I have re-
ceived from her Majesty's principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, to inquire how far her
Catholic Majesty's Government propose that the
rayon of Ceuta should be extended, and more par-
ticularly to request that your Excellency will have
the goodness to name the points on the coast which,
in the event of the views of her Catholic Majesty's
Government being carried into effect, would be in-
cluded within the territory of Spain.
"In addressing these inquiries to your Excel-
lency, I am further to request that I may receive
answers to them at your Excellency's earliest con-
venience.—l avail, &c.,

"ANDREW BUCHANAN."
" Enclosure 2 in No. 4.
(Translation.)
" Palace, Oct. 21, 1859.

" Sir, —I have received the note which you have
had the goodness to address to me, dated this day,
and I informed myself of its contents with particu-
lar attention.

In the pi esent:state of the question of Morocco,
owing to the inconceivable resistance of the Sul-
tan's Government to satisfying thejust demands of
Spain, it is very difficult, if not impossible, for the
Cabinet of Madrid to determine, even approxi-
mately, the nature of the guarantees which they
may find themselves under the necessity of asking,
in order to assure the results of the hostilities which
are on the point of commencing.
" You cannot be unaware, nor can your enligh-
tened Government either be ignorant, that when
two nations appeal for the settlement of their diffe-
rences to force of arms, on the diplomatic relations
which have been pursued without effect being
broken off, former proposals are declared null, and
considered as if they had not been made, while both
parties reserve to themselves the right of renew-
ing them, or presenting others of a different kind,
according as it may suit their interests and corre-
spond to the results of the military operations.
" Notwithstanding this, the Government of the
Queen my Sovereign, who have given so many and
such marked
i proofs of their conciliatory and up-
right spirit n the different incidents which have
sprung from the question with Morocco, will not
vary the intentions which they had formed from
the beginning of that question, not to occupy any
point on the Straits whose position could afford to
Spain a superiority dangerous to the navigation.
In this matter their ideas have been always so
disinterested and loyal that they cannot believe
that any doubt can have been conceived with regard
to them.
" Nevertheless, her Majesty's Government, in
whose name I have repeatedly offered to you the
explanations necessary for dissipating every species
of doubt, if by chance it had been conceived, with
respect to their intentions, d wish to omit the
o not
statement made above, feeling sure that her Bri-
tanic Majesty's Government, in asking for it, have
no other object than to secure the safety of the inte-
rests
of Great Britain, and not in any manner to in
in -
terfere the con test which is about to be engaged
in between twoi independent nations.—l avail, &c.,
bATURNINO CALDERON COLLANTES."