Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-09-03


lease granted 10 c such claim raust be pro-
nounced to be illegal.
Upon the whole we are OF opinion that
the release granted by the power b TO the
power c operates also asa release TO the
power Il for its participation on the enqui-
~ which waa the object of the release.
Philadelphia, 18th Nov. 1902.
Jared Inger5oH,
I'm Ra1O.c,
+. B. IN'Kpau,
Es. Copia. p. S. Dubonceau.
Ans5oer Of the Attsrnry Generelef tie dis.
frict Of Asrv 1ork to the same question.
According to the above statemeat /
should have no doubt that b. having aban-
doaed It's righ,sto afi indemnity against G.
would have no claim whatever against A.
more especially as the case supposes it out
of the power of A. to have prevented the
transaction.
Ne,v York. Nov. ., 1902.
EDWARD LIVINGSTON,
Els. Copia.
REMARKs.--1n:th the latter part Of last
September, writer, who was understood
Ito be the Marquis de Casa Yrujo, Spanish
ambassador, published in the Philadelphia
newspapers and caused to be republished
in all the principal parts Of the y. States,
in three numbers under the signature Of
,Grapiora Mane,t, Audience ofthe conduct
of Spain towards the United States. One
point taken by the Spanish ambassador was
that Span was under no obligation to make
any PREPARATION to the United States for
spoliations committed GA our commerce
by French cruizers with the assistance of
French and Spanish tribunals in Spanish
ports. We fad the following paragraph
In the first number:
Among other circumstances which
have leaked out, it was whispered thar
the Spanish ambassador here, had, some
months before, proposed to some of the
most eminen, lawyers in the United States,
a theoretical question on this subject, ex.
posing with accuracy and exactness all the
principal and collateral circumstances, and
conceaiing the real interested powers BY q
substitution of alphabetical letters. The
consulted civilians, although good and true
Americans, yielded, Notwithstanding to
the impressions of truth and Justice and
although belonging to different. political
parties, unanimously declared in substance,
thar the Uaited STATES had net the least claim
upsn tie Spanish government, for the inju-
riss of the French prlvatecrs on the coasts
and port of Spain, after we had given up
by the last convention with France all our
right TO the said claim"
Three days afterwards mastery. al.
swer to GrQ0iora Aaneut sppeared in the
|. Evening Post. As it is not to be supposed
thatthe mass of readers lay up productions
OF this sort, we presume the following in
reply to thstparsof the ambassadors pa
per which relates to American claims add
which is now again brought before he pub
1ic>by the foregoing extracts from the a.
mericaa Citizen, will be highly accepsa-
l<ble.
| Now for the law opinions which the
! marquis d'Yrsjo had been gracious|y pleas.
ed TO obtain at his own expence, for our
information. The writer Of this paper
Y
does not pretend to Eaore knowledge Than
his neighbcrs, but he considers this as a
/ plain thing which he can understand, and
therefore believes that twill be readily and
clearly. comprehended by his fellow citi.
Eens. With submission therefore to the
professional gentlemen whom the snobled
marquis has consulted, he presumes to
hold different opinion from that which
they are said to have delivered. Not hav-
ing Coke or .ittleton to look into, he
has consulted the principles of common
sense; and humbly takes leave 10 believe
that when our demand on Spain is .kened
to debt, where France is the principal
and Spain only "a surety, these professional
gentlemen have wholly mistaken the case.
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