Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-02-10

Delaware, 2Fcb. 1911
Pennsylvania, q Feb. 1871
New jersey, IL FEB. 1871
Z Vermont ~ Oct. 1911
8 Tennessee, ~ Nov. 1911
Georgia. Is Dec. ISL
10 North Carolina, - Dec. 1911
IL Massachusetts, % Feb. 1872
II New Hampshire, 10 Dec. 1912
Rejected byl3 New York, u Mar. 1911
Il Rhode Island, 10 Dec. ISL
10 Connecticut.
Uncertain. ID South Carolina.
IL Virginia.
The Secretary OF State, IN the course
of last month, addressed letter to the
governor of Virginia and 10 the governor
ofSouth Carolina, requesting information
as 20 any final decisions by those states
in relation 10 this amendment, but had
not received answers thereto on the Sd
instant.
The report lies on the table.
The House tbeH spent some time in
committee OF the whole on Mr. john
sons resolutions respecting reduction
of the army, the establishment of Mill
tary Academies, Corps of invaios, &c
aud after some debate, the committee rose,
reported progress, and obtained leave 10
sit again.
On motion of Mr.. So,rs,
Resolved, That the Secretary OF War ne re-
ment of the balances now due, respectively,
from such persons now or heretofore acting in
the Ouartermaster and Paymasters Depart
menis, whose accounts have not been settled
for the period of more than one year previous
to the 27th day of December last.
After the adoption OF this resolution,
The House adjournedto Monday.
= The following is the letter referred to:
MIR. ERvING TO MR.. cEvALLos.
Madrid oct -, 1Sl6.
To his excellency Don Pedro Cevalius,
first secretary of state, &c.
SIR-By your eXcelleDcy's note of the 18th
instant, in reply TO mine of September 26th,
respecting tile proclamation blockade of Gen.
MorillO, and the ravages on the American
commerce which are committing III der 1t,
am told that his majesty has ordered that
information shall be taken Csc pidd iWorme) of
the tribunal of admiralty.
That General MorillO has issued snch
proclamation as have describeo in my note
of Sept Goth, is fact of universal notorlety :;
| your eNcellency has had before you long since
| the correspondence between the American
| secretary of state and Mr.. Onis on the subject,
| and have transmitted to you a copy ofthe
| letter of Don Francisco Moutalvo, vice roy of
| Santa Fe, to the American commissioner, MIR.
| Hughes, in which the existence OF the block
| ade is admitted, and in which the American
| government is referred for redress 10 his ca
I tbolc majesty. 1t was therefore that, by the
orders ofmy government, wrote to you on
| the subject With the fact which [ have
above stated before you, am wholly at a loss
| to imagine what kind OF information the
! tribunal of admiralty can afford, which may
| regulate the decision of his majesty the
| subject.
The tribunal cannot deny the existence of
| the proclamation; il cannot show that the
proclamation is legal; it cannot deny that
American vessels have been taken under the
| proclamation il cannot contest the right of
| the American government to demand the res
| titutiOn of such vessels.
In fne, sir, it is my duty to assure you, that
| any demur or delay in affordng the satisfac-
| tiop demande in a of this principal
| Importance, caBuot but he very sensibIy felt
| By the government of the United states.
| I renew to you assurances of the very dis
| tingushed consideration with which am,
| yours, &c. G.. w. ERVING.