Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-08-07

merely bccausche would not submit to the
payment of the money Acknowledged by his
majesty to be within his control | can
not, therefore, do less than declare to your
excellency, that as this act must b. viewed
by my government with marked tlissatis--
faction, L must be permitted TO avail N.Y.
self of my official character, in its fullest
meaning and extent. to demand the liberia
ton of Mr.. Richard Meade and in case
your Excellency should not consider your
self fully authorised to do so, in CONSEQUENCE
of his arrest having taken place by a 8utc-
Tior order, which / understand runs thus:
That in case he should not FAY or secure
the ansunt, that his herson qUos TO be Sc
cured l come forward and without hesi~
tation, pledge both my public and private
Oh racter to be responsible for Mr.. Meade's
person, that he may be per'Ditted to return
to his own dwelling house, praying at the
same time, that your Excellency will be
pleased to grant him your passport, that he
may, with his family, SO to Madrid. and
there represent the peculiar hardship Of
his case to his catholic msiesty, and defend
his rights under the auspices of the envoy
extraordinary and minister plcnipotentiary
of my nation and in the event that your
Exceliency shall not consider yourself suf-
hciently authorised to grant the necessary
passport for Mad-id. | request he nay
he permitted under my own responsibility,
10 remain in his own house. until he can
receive an answer from court, as well rs
the expected information of the arrival of
the minister plenipotentiary of the United
States / am also to solicit your Excel
lency, that you may be pleased TO orl:r.
that authenticate copies of the royalorier,
and of every proceeding consequential re-
on, as well as of the Official letter the
governor of the Castle, wherein Mr. Meade
is confined, may be furn 81 "a, N as ais Of
this letter which declare to be my formal
protest, and OF the dt cree which YOUR ex
celiency may tn nix proper to issue there
on, that may forward the whole to Mad
rid by a courier extraordinary, for the i,-
formation of the aforesaid minister n,en;-
potentlary of the United States, who is
shortly expected tier.
(Signed as usual.
.AnSsver cfthe CAPTAIN General ot-fndala--
sic, dated
cADIz, May Is, 1916.
The imprisonment Of Mr.. Richard
Meade, tool. place in virtue Of a decree of
the royal and supreme council Of ysr. with
the advice and consent of his maiestv.
which ordered, that if the amount re-
CURED was not immc dately deposited in
the treasury of the consulate or secured to
the full satisfaction of that tribunal. his ar
rest shcnld take place and that he was
not aDie 70 meet either. you appear to be
very fslly informed about, as I observe bv
your official letter Of the 18th inst contain.
ing course of reasoning altogether unne-
cessary, undertaking To prove that sbouid
not have ordered Mr.. Meade's imprison-
me t, as being contr ry to tire ties and the
justice OF his cause. &c. all which NAV he
represented in more decorous manrer
to the supreme authority, with whom the
decree OF his arrest originated, and not Tn
ne, who am mere executive officer .nor
can j conceive that an called upon IN
furnish you with the official copies of the
proceedings You require, the same having
been already furnished to Mr.. Richard
Meade, as the party most Immediately con-
cerned. This tribunal is very far from ar-
gravatlng the case of Mr.. Meade, but on
tne contrSry' feel every disPos ton to grant
him every facility in their power cons;sf-
ent with the faithful execution of their ar
ders, which forbid his being permitted 70
return to his own house, and mich Ices
granting passport to proceed to Madrid
but II you VIII become responsible for Mr..
Meade to the tul eXtei.t, | will submit the
same to the tribunal of the CONSULATE. and
if considered by them as satisfactorv
will be enabled to decree ACCORDINGLY as IN
justice may be right.
No. III
JaTses i.eanfer Cshe9rt, Esq. Consul Of tle Tro;.
ted States, ~ C+diz, To ! is ,xceilepey tie csr,o,
general and governor Of Calz, in reply IN he
toregoing. 0ho
C9nsu'nte efMe IT, .ctGtes.
SIR,
In reply to year cxcellcbcy's le.-
ter OF the 9th instant, CONCERNING lie in.
prsonment of MIR. Richard Meade. a 81;
zen Ct the u. Stiles, | nust be permitted
to represent to your eXcellency. ihat in ad
dItion to the Instruction which have (ro,,,
my government, it has always been. arc Is
my wish to treat the constituted authorities
near which reside, with hat dccoruro
and respect which are due bnt vour e.
cellency must not be surprised that, as
representative of my nation. 7 r,rs. ~
monstrate, 18th that energy that ia beco-
ming the present case, when see a cifi-
zen OF the y. States, and one Of its moe
respectable characters, treated like cri-
minai. AMI held, to this time, confined in a
dungeon, with centinel in view. who will
not PERMIT him to walk the d,stance of,en