The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-07-23
The two Mexican InstaImeuts.

We lay before our readers Inc copy OF Il let
Ter which Mr.. Shannon, our late Minister in Mex
co, addressed 10 the Secretary of State yester-
day. It settles the mooted question beyond fur
Their controversy. 1t now appears, that the drafts
10 our agent upon the Mexican treasury 'had not
been paid, nor any part of them,' up to the date
of Shannon's leaving Mexico.-Wdsh. Union.
To Hon. James Buchanan, Secretary Of State:
WASHINGTON, July 2, l845.
SIR: Since my arrival in the United States:
have noticed at least portion Of the public are
Iaboring under incorrect views with regard to /
the payment Of the fourth and fifth instalment
due our citizens from Mexico, under the treaty
of the 3lst January, 1913; and also that some
unius. reflections have been cast upon me, as
well as others, in reference TO the manner in |
which the business had been transacted. | deem
il not out of place for me to communicate 10 you
the facts in relation to the two instalments IN !
question, so far as they are within my knGwedee,
with the view not only of outing you in posses
sion Of the tue state Of the case, but Of setting
myself right in the matter. This should have
done at an earlier period, had been aware that
there was any difficulty on the subject, or that
there was any doubt in any quarter as to the
facts in the case.
Tho fourth instalment fell due on the 30h
April, 1874, and the fifth on the Both of the fol
lowing July; and did not arrive in Mexico un-
nil the evening of the 26th of the following Au-
gust On my arrival in Mexico, the fourth in
staIment had been due near four months, and the
fifth near one month, and the date Of Mr.. Vosss
recent, closing the matter with the Mexican 60
Ivernment. is 9th August Ii will be perceived
from these dates, that | could have had no agen-
CIV in advising the arrangement that was made
with the Mexican government by Mr. Voss.-
Soon after my arrival in Mexico, on inquiry of
Mr.. Voss, our agent, who had been appointed to
receive the money, as to the payment of the two
linstaIments in question, he informed me he had
in vain sought to obtain the money from the ma
onal treasury in Mexico; that he had failed in all
his efforts to do so; for the reason, that as fast
as the money came into the national treasury, it
was absorbed for the purpose of the army, and
Ibv Mexican claimants, whose influence with the
government was such as TO enable them to OBJ
Ifain the preference over the American claimants,
that finding all efforts to obtain payment in Mox-
| leo had failed, he prevailed on the government
Ito give him drafts on the local treasures for an
amount sufficiently large 10 cover the principal
and interest due on the two instruments, and the
cost of collecting the same, and transmitting the
money to Vera Cruz. He also advised me that
the English house of Tayleur, Jamson o. Co.,
in Mexico, had claims on the Mexican govern
ment, and that they had taken drafts of similar
character, and were about to collect them; and
that he handed over the drafts which he had re-
Icciyed, TO that house, for collection at the same
Idme. The house of Tayeur, Jamison & Co., il
lis proper should remark, is one of undoubtec
Iresponsibiliv. The contributions that had beer
Ievied, in order TO raise the four millions voted
Ibv Congress, and placed at the disposal of the
government, were in a rapid course Of collection
| at the time, and no doubts were entertained bu
the drafts would be properly met and paid. Ht
stated that under these circumstances, he con
! sidered the drafts as cash, or the same as cash
and that he had receipted to the Mexican gov
eminent accordingly, and that | might conside
the instalmens in question as paid; that thor
S would be no other difficulty about the matter
. Ithan delay of few weeks in transmitting thu
S money to the United States. On the day after
n had been presented to the Presdent--that is, ol
5 the I'd of September-I received a note from MI
= -lReion. the Mexican Secretary Of State, a cop
. of which has been heretofore communicated t
i YOUR department, in which he states that he ha
0 been advised by the Secretary of the Treasury
# funder date Of the 9th August, that the two il
If fIstalments had been paid On the 18th of Ser
Itember had an interview with President SAINT
e Anna in relation to the release of the Texa
d prisoners, and the unadiusted claims Of our cit
d zens on the government of Mexico, in which b
!, took occasion TO speak of the payment of the tw
+ instamcnts above named, and the difficulties th
r. IGOyernment had 10 encounter to meet them; an
u assuring me, at the same time, that he had cal
v sed arrangements TO be made, which would el
'. liable the government to meet the future insta
d Iments promptly as they fell due. All this pl
% Inv mind to rest on the subject of these linden
e mites: and it was upon this state of facts that
10 felt myself authorized TO make the commune
b. Iton did to Mr.. Calhoun, in relation thereto,
If ISeptember last | did not at the time, nor III
ID It'll the revolution broke out, which terminned
a. 1.-The overthrow Of President Santa Anna and b
r party, anticipate the slightest difficulty in rel
tIation TO the payment fthe drafts in question:
,e When the revolution broke out, the money i
w TENDED to meet these drafts was diverted fro
le that purpose by the government Of Mexico, al
,e apped to lis own purposes. When it had
?Icomo thus certain that there would be al lea
D. some considerable delay in the payment of the
o. drafts, called on Mr.. Voss to report to me
IN writing all the facts of the case, so that mig
II DC aOIc 10 pul my SoEoiHlnShl III POe9SosIoA
them. was taken sick shortly after, and con
ned to my room for two months, and was tn
n. prevented from doing so Up to the time of r
on departure from Mexico, which was on the IA
ng of May last, these drafts had not been paid,
o, any part of Them. No doubt, however, was G
N. tertained by Mr.. Voss or Mr. Jnmison but ii
ir these drafts would be paid, as soon as the Me-
a can government could command the pecunu
o, means. That government does not claim that
IS. is in any way released from the payment of the
u drafts; But the deranged state of the Mexic
treasury, growing out of the late revolution,
H. heretofore prevented the government from d
ID charging them. II is proper should state, ii
le / have no doubt Mr.. Voss has acted througho
ir with the most perfect good faith and integritya