The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-20

ment has never been able, although required by
France two years since, TO show In virtue OF wha'
law, or in conformity with what judicial proceeu-
ings, these individuals were condemned ana exc
cuted; butchery rendered more odious by the I'M
puniiy extended TO Mexican officers who were inc
associates of these strangers, and by the pfomouon
to the rank of General Of Colonel Gregorio uomez'
he having presided at the council winch, 10 try me
accused limited his acts to the simple order OF as
sassination;
nounced by Senior Tonnage, one of the judges OF
the capital, who, during the last year, condemned
10 ten years hard labor at Vera Cruz, lin other
words, frghtful death by prolonged sufTering,) a
Frenohman, whom he desired to represent as guilty
Of homicide without proof refusing to receive evi-
dence of his innocence in violation Of all legal forms
and of the sacred right Of defending ones self against
false accusations:
"Nor of the recently attempted assassination, by
Colonel Pardo, commandment of the city Of Colima,
in public street, of Frenchman who exercised
the honorable profession of medicine, and who was
director and physician to the hospital in that city,
for no other cause than that the Frenchman had
fused TO lend money to the colonel; from which at
tempt the colonel escaped only by kind of miracle,
but covered with wounds. For these atrocious in-
jurles he has not only been unable TO obtain any
dress, but has even been denied protection for the
future from the civil and judicial authorities, and
thus has been compelled to abandon the country and
"Thc undersigned will not undertake at this time
to enter into detailed relation of many other out
RACES less execrable but not less iniquitous which
Frenchmen have been compelled to suffer in their
persons and their property Such detail would
extend this communication TO length which is the
less necessary after the voluminous correspondence
which has taken place on the same subject between
the French legation and the Mexican government.
The undersigned will, therefore, content himself
laying down three general categories, under which
will naturally be arranged these less odous inquiries
to which his countrymen have been subjected.
81. The sacking and destruction Of property, pend
ing the disturbances of the country, which have
been done either by the populace, by the belli-
gerent parties as for example, the sacking of the
Parian in Mexico in Tehuantepu, in Oajaca, and in
Orizava; the mutiny in Mexico on account of the
depreciation of the copper currency, &c
go The violent collection of forced leans, IN viola
ton equally Of all national rights and of subssting
treaties, and not less opposed to natural equity by
the unjust Partially manifested in the apportion-
ment.
$50. The denial Of justice, Judicial acts and decis-
ions equally illegal and iniquitous, of the admins
tratve authorities, military and civil, for example,
the conhscation, contrary to the maxims of hu-
mainly and of the law, Of the republic of the car
go of Captain Rives, who was wrecked by tempest
on the coast Of Mazaltan, involving the death of
this Frenchman, which was brought about by the
sufferings endured in five anxious years, uselessly
expended, in unavailing effers to obtain that rep
aration which was increasingly promised In this
affair, certain employees of the custom-house figured,
who subsequently burned their records, and fled to
avoid rendering an account to the government
Closing contrary to treaties and laws, the COM
mercal establishment of Mr.. Besson, in Bolanos,
the Imprisonment of this Frcnchman by the local
authorities, as punishment for having invoked and
obtained the impotent protection of the supreme
government. In this case, officer of the custom
house prominently figured who was subsequently
dismissed for being concerned with band Of rob-
bers, and for his own defacations."
This list of outrages will be continued in our next
by further extracts from this ultimatum of Baron
Deffandis. C.