Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-03-27

tlInC, TIE TWO governments are not DIO
to a disagTeeaDie issue, as (if the claim had
been rejected without ceremony, or even with
ali the osteutatiOn OF civIiity) they might have
been.
" In not conserving TO receive the answer Of
TINS government after my departure from Ma
pies. | was a good deal influenced by the ap-
rrehemson. that they might possibly give me
such at answer when absent, as they would not
giv, me IL present. 4 desnCd, moreover, TO
ensure NV government - lust control over the
subject, aud 10 i:,e claimants "a clear Stage 10;
| ihytr own private cNertiom. thought that Il
more convenient resting point could scarcely
be had, and thatit would be better that
should afford ,.n,e To advise upon the case To
| those who haI more Night tnan had TO DIS.
pose OF II IN future, than that, adher ring tn my
mission, after l. had separated M self from
thOSe TO wh"n WAS accredited, I should risk
the loss of every th.ug by the exercise OF !;
very doubtful authority, uaIer dill SOi II OF dis
advantages.
Here follow five notes between Mr..
Pinkney and the Ncapolians, embracing
little more than an hi rciiange OF civiii-
ties prior to his departure.
Tue next letter irom Mr. Pinkney, at
81; Petersburg, Of date February II, 1917,
commences as follows:
Notwithstanding The eNpiictness Of my
answer OF Tie 3Oih Ut September of The last
year, 10 the proposal contained IN the note of
| The Marquis di Crcello OF the 27th OF the same
sent after me his reply to my note of the path
of August. The obstacles which, while L was
present, threatened to retard that rpply for
MANY IL week. and even for months disappear
ed Wth marvellous rapidi,y, after / had de
paIteu; for the reply passed me on the road
TO ST. Petersbursh, ana arrived there long be-
fore me-
Mr.. P's letter goes on TO state that,
when this reply was rendered 10 him al
St. Petersburg by the Duke of Sierra Ca
priola, the Neapolian Minister at that
Court, he refused To receive il, his func-
iious having ceased as Special Minister
To Naples. Being en!rea,ed 10 receive
IT, lie al length consented 10 receive the
packet, aud transmit Il to his government.
There are four notes which passed be
tween Mr.. Pimkney and the Duke of Ca
prlola, respecting the difficulty which
thus arose.
Mex, comes the following extract of a
letter from MIR. Gallatin, our Minister at
Paris, dated
Paris Nov. 10, 1916.
received on the i6lh inst note from the
Neapo!itan ambassador, enclosing, bS order Of
his court the copy of an Official note, dated
18th October last, aud addressed by the Mar
qus iii CircellO, In Mr. pinkpey, after his de
parture from Naples. In answer Ia a verbal
enquiry, the ambassador told me, that he did
not know vhether that note had been directed
other place on the road. lie also said that
his government had Authorized him 10 add TO
that commuplCat to me ANY farther obSer.
.ailons. which he might deem proper. but that
he had abstaiued from il, knowing that neither
he nor myself had any powers on That subject
anu wishing therefore toavcid an Improbable
discussion
III may he presumed, that the Neapolitan
government delayed that uOtc, III order to- pre-
vent the possibility of reply; and that their
intentnSn in communicating il tome was 10
hasten Is transmission 10 You. Copies Of the
Official note itself, and of that of the ambaSsa-
dor 10 me, are enclosed"
The Official Reply of the Ncapol;an
Minister concludes the series, and is as
fellows:
The Marquis Of Cucelio, Minister II Foreisr,
AJdirS. at Naples, to Nr. PiRlncy, Sgeciqi
AIiRiSter Of the United States
NAPLES, 18th October, 1916
Although the government of his majesty
the king Of til Two SicilieS was from the first
moment, in a situation TO Judge of the validity
of the remonstrance and demands made by his
eXcellency, MIR. Pinkney, envoy extraordinary
of the United States OF America, IN his note OF
the 18th August last nevertheless wishing TO
examine and discuss them under all their as
poets of right and OF fact, il has waited accor-
dinghy, until all the materials and lights were
collected, proper to this end.
The many difficulties attending the search
the order OF things, during which the facts
occurred that have given rise to the demands
OF Mr.. PIhkney, rendered IL impossible for
the royal government to reply to the note of
his eXcellency before his departure from Ma.
pies.
Now, that the papers and appropriate inqui.
rles have shed the strongest light upon the
affair IN question, the undersigned ceans elor
and secretary OF state, minister OF foreign af-
fairs OF his majesty the king of The Two SiCi-
lies, hastens to give, by order of his sovereign,
the following reply to Mr.. Pinkney, requesting
bl' eNcelIency 10 be pleased to communicate il
to his government.
All the arguments contained in the note of
the 2tth August, look to the end of making
his Inalestys government responsible fOr the
consequences of the cOnfscdtiom and sale
whether just or unjust, OF several American
vessels and CaT-oes, which took place in
Naples, while the king was held by Mu.
rat
In support Of ths pretension, it is assumed
that the abuse OF power and violation of good
faith by which these arbitrary acts were COM
mitted, are of such nature to survive the
political authority of the author Of Them. and
that, of course, as there accrued right of re-
clanation against The government OF Murat,
there exists one, also, against the present LOY-
eTnmeut of the Two SiCilieS.
His eNcellency adds, that although the Anne
rican claimants have not the means of ascer-
tanning 10 what uses the produce Of the above
mentioned sales was applied, yet, they may
presume, that il was expended in works and
objects of public utility, or left in the public
Golfers, and therefore aiiirms, ifht under this
point of view, likewise his lnajeSty's govern
ment is bound to indemnity the victims of the
Spoliations committed during the ascendancy
of Murat.
Without undertaking to enquire, whether
a sort of succession or inheritance, in legii-
mate and ilicgitimate governments, can he
maintained upon good grounds, tie undersigB-
ed will be content TO remark. that, whatever
may be the opiHion Of pubIcisiS as to this
point. no one has ever pretended TO visit the
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