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teens, they will be found, and may be. • xpe
ka
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d in
Mexico this year. At the same time you state that
it is your opinion that the funds have not been fur-
nished. The case thus presented renders it proper
that I should call your especial attention to my de-
spatch No. 167, which boars the date of and is sent
forward this day. In preparing this despatch I an-
ticipated the case substantially which your com-
munication now presents.

You cannot, while practising the courtesy and re-
spect which are due to the Austrian Government,
be either too earnest or too emphatic in the protest
you have been directed to make. In performing
this duty you may be assisted by information of the
actual state of the question concerning French in-
tervention in Mexico at the present moment. With
this view I give you, confidentially, a copy of my
note, addressed to M. Montholon on the 12th clay
of February last. As yet no reply has been received
to this note, nor have its contents become public. •

You will, therefore, see the propriety of being
discreet in such use of it as you may find it neces-
sary to make. After reading that paper you will
be justified fir saying that the American Govern-
ment and people would not be likely to be pleased
with seeing Austria, at this juncture, assume the
character of a protector to the foreign military
Power which, claiming the power of an empire, is
attempted to be set up upon the supposed subverted
foundations of the Republic of Mexico.—l am, sir,
your obedient servant, •

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
J. Lothrop Motley, Esq., &c., &c., Vienna.
MR. SEWARD TO MR. MOTLEY.
(No. 173.)
Washington, April 6, 1866.

- •
Sir,—An informal note has just been received
from Mr. Bigelow, the United States Minister at
Paris. In this note Mr. Bigelow writes in substance
-as follows :—" The Moniteur of the 21st of March
announces that a military convention was signed at
Vienna on the 15th, between the Austrian Govern-
ment and the representative of Maximilian, sup-
PwihelnichenhtaadYbet:n ro aconceolnuvdeendtiboentwoefentthhee
ssaammee
pnaarttiurese.
The purport of this engagement, says the Moniteur,
is to insure the enrolments necessary to keep full
the Austrian corps in Mexico."
Mr. Bigelow further writes as follows:—" I have
seen it stated in another journal that a line of
'
Again,
is to be started from Trieste to Vera Cruz,
to ply
Again,,
m regularlyr. B theiagfetleerwf a
furnishes
hoef
sAspn extract from theril.'
Paris Constitutionnel, of the 21st oiefn March
h:Th:
learn from the Frendenblatt
en-
listment for Mexico will begin immediately : that
the funds have been received from Paris two months

since."

Your despatches, of dates almost as late as that
of Mr. Bigelow's note, are silent upon the rumours
which he brings to the notice of the Government.
It is possible that more authentic information which
you may possess concerning the disposition and
proceedings of the Austrian Government may en-
able you to treat the matters mentioned by Mr.
Bigelow with indifference. Looking at the matter,
however, from one point of observation, the rumours
referred to are deemed sufficient to entitle us to ask
a friendly and just exposition of the Imperial Royal
Government of the relations which it proposes to
assume or maintain henceforth in regard to Mexico.
You are expected, therefore, to execute the instruc-
tions which have heretofore been sent to you to that
effect, and it is thought proper that you should state
that in the event of hostilities being carried on here-
after inMexico byAustriansubjects, under the com-
mand or with the sanction of the Government of
Vienna, the, United States will feel themselves at
liberty to regard these hostilities as constituting a
state of war by Austria against the Republic of
Mexico, and in regard to such war waged at this
time, and under existing circumstances, the Uxited
States could not engage to remain as silent or neutral
spectators.

The President may desire to call the attention of
Congress to this interesting subject. You will see
the importance, therefore, of obtaining the informa-
tion, which is desired as early as maybe practicable,
consistently with the courtesies due to Austria as a
friendly Government.

Should you, however, find important reasons,
now unknown to us for deferring the execution of
this instruction, you will be at liberty to exercise
your discretion, and report the reasons to us.—l am,
sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIA3I IL SEWARD.
To J. Lothrop Motley, Esq., Vienna.
MR. SEWARD TO MR. MOTLEY.
Department of State, Washington, Aprill6, 1866.
have had the honour to receive your de-
vatcl} of the 27th of March (No. 155), which brings
the-important announcement that a treaty, called a
" military supplementary convention," was ratified
on the 15th of that month between the Emperor of
Austria and the Prince Maximilian, who claims to
be an Emperor in Mexico. You inform me that it
is expected that about 1,000 volunteers will be
shipped, under this treaty, from Trieste to Vera
Cruz very soon, and that at least as many more will
be shipped in the autumn.
I have heretofore given you the President's in-
structions to asl.-. for explanations, and conditionally
to inform the Government of Austria that the de-
spatch of military expeditions by Austria, under
such an arrangement as the one which seems now to
have been consummated, will be regarded with
serious concern by the United States.
The subject has now been farther considered in
connection with the official information thus recently
received. The time seems to have arrived when the
attitude of this Government in relation to Mexican
affairs should be once again frankly and distinctly
made known to the Emperor of Austria and all
other Powers whom it may directly concern. The
el ma
wt
so bo ef
United Stta,moteaiisin,ataivfoeratrheteashiraotnfos
theuwn h d
aic
di i o smne see
smi t tel hot
republican eh
ent with which they are in relations of
njGuitvi'oenransn,md
friendly communication is the only legitimate Go-
vernment existing in Mexico ; that a war has, for a
period of several years, been Ns, aged against that
Republic by the Government of France, which was
begun with a disclaimer of all political or dynastic
designs ; that that war has subsequently taken upon
European intervention to overthrow that
.. domes
itself, and now distinctly wears, the character oftiel
republican Government,
despotism by military force.
European imperial
the character of their
The United States, in view of
estysaedndthinemti-.
and to erect in its stead a
Mexico, and their just in-
mate relations towards
asffairs
of the American con-
tinent,fluence in the political
to the accomplishment of
own political institutions,
dve
cannot cons
means described.
the
The United States thtehreeirfoleroadximidr
think reasonably, to the Government
selves, as they
asked that
of France, and have. its military forces
engaged in that objectionable political invasion may
that purpose by
desist from further intervention and be withdrawn
from Mexico. A copy of the last communication
upon the subject, which was addressed by to the
Government
us
Government of France, is herewith
transmitted for
your special information. This paper will give you
the true situation of the question. It will also enable
you to satisfy the Government of Vienna that the
United States must
be no less opposed to military
intervention for
political objects hereafter in Mexico
by the Government of Austria, than they are op-
posed to any further intervention of the same cha-
racter in that country by France. You will, there-
fore, at as early a day as may be convenient, bring
the whole case in a becoming manner to the attention
of the Imperial Royal Government. You
.ely desire
are
autho-
rised to state that the United States
sincerely
that Austria may find it just and
ePe dient to come
in Mexico
upon the same ground of non-intervention
which is maintained by the United States, and to
which they have invited France.
us the answer of the
You will communicate
AUstrian Government to this proposition.
the could not but regard as a matter
of serious concern the
This Government
despatch of any troops from
hile ect which you are
Austria for Mexico
weseut to thesubj Austrian Govern-
thus directed to Pr
d consideration.
went remains
un
obedient servant,
am, sir, your ero
(Signed) WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
To J. Lothrop Motley, Esq., Vienna.