The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-01-07


unfortunate persons to take part in an enterprises 30
rash, does not hesitate to recommend them 10 INC
clemency OF tho Supreme Government OF the RoPuo
lie and at the same time invoke in their behalf the
tight which the law Of nations gives them, not 10
be punished without trial.
The undersigned therefore earnestly entreats MS
eXcellency Don. J. M dc Bocanegra the Minister OF
Foreign Relations TO communicate the contents oil
the present note TO his exoellency the Cons uionai
President and has the honor to repeat to him the as
suIanees of his most distinguished consideration.
p. p. DE OLIVER
From Charles Bankhead, Esq, Minister Pien--
| ipotentidry Of Great Britain, 10 General
Bocdnegrd.
MEXco, June %, 1874
The undersigned, Minister, Sc has the honor to
assure His EIcsllency ST. de Bocanegra, that he
has received information from source worthy Of
| confidence, that William Paterson, British subject,
ha. been seized by the authorities of Tabasco as be-
ing one of those who accompanied Sentmanat.
| 1t appears from letter from M. Chabot, that he
was not in any way attached to that adventurer that
he came in the schooner William Turner, as pas
senger, bearing passport from the British Consul
at Now Orleans, countersigned by the Mexican Con-
sui that he presented himself with his passport to
the Alcade of Santa Anna, and that on his arrival
he positively refused to take any part in the projects
| of Sentmanat.
| Mr.. Paterson has already resided at Tabascoi he
is known to General Ampudia, and has had occasion
| to render services to the Mexican Government
These circumstances proclaim his innocence fully
thai the undersigned loses not a moment in commune
eating the position of Paterson to Sr. de Bocanegra,
with confidence that the Of justice of His Ex-
cellency the President of the Republic will not al
| low British subject, who has been most nnocently
and by chance thrown among band Of desperate
men, 10 suffer the punishment of which they have
made themselves worthy, by their crime. The I'M
dersgned therefore hopes, that not instant will be
lost in submitting the to the benevolent conside-
ration OF General Santa Anna.
The undersigned assures NJ. de Bocanegra, sc.
! C. BANKHEAD.
From The Minister Of Wg Of Merieo 10 the Minister Of
Foreign .a6Iirs Of -mereO, conveying the annoer Of
| Pre,ident Santa Anna 10 the preceding letters.
DEPARTMENT OF Wan AND MARINE.
God and Liberty
MEIco, June %, 1914.
Hi, Ercelency the President of the Republic,
having taken into consideration the three notes from
your Excellency, in which you copy the letters ad-
| dressed to the Department of Foreign Relations by
the Pleniposntiaries of France, Spain, and England
has decided that you should be informed in answer
that under date Of the 18th June ls43, declaration
was made to the Foreign Ministers PIenipotentary,
in order that they should communicate it to their
Governments, that every individual Of whatever ma
ton should be treated pirate, who alone or in
company with others, should invade the Mexican
territory, either with the object of usurpiug or of
dsmembering any part thereof, or of overthrowing
the order Of things established in the Republic
The adventures whom Sentmanat commanded and
for whom the Ministers Plenpotentiary are now i'm
poring clemency, only are in the position provi.
ded for in the said circular, but have moreover evil
IDENTITY violated the law OF nations. by invading the
Mexican territory with arms in their hands and at
lacking with force the Government of nation now
at peace with all the civilized nations of America
and Europe. The President has been therefore sur
Pised to see the Ministers Plenpotentiary interpo-
sing their most respectable mediation in favor of
these maleiactors, who have lost all right to the pro-
lection of their Governments as they have lost their
national character by the very fact of placing them
selves under flag, which was not only foreign to
them, but which was, moreover, to their knowledge
that OF perTerse rebel, who had raised it with no
other object than to disturb the peace to introduce
revolution into the Mexican Republic, and to sue
coed at the price of the blood of thousands of nno-
cent victims.
The President sees clearly that the Ministers OF
France and Spain are endeavorng to excite feelings
oil ciemency; but he also knows, that he would be
betraying the confidence imposed by the nation when
it placed its destiny in his hands, if he should leave
the republic exposed to the consequences which might
result from IMMUNITY in the present case. The ex-
ample cited by His Excellency the Minister PIenpo-
Tertiary of France does not appear opportune to the
President King Charles TX. ordered Viscount
dOrthez to put to death in cold blood his own sub
Jects, who were quiet, peaceable, and belonging
to the industrious and productive class of the French
nation; and he issued this order for no other reason
than because those unfortunate persons profe.sed
religion which displeascd the monarch; whilst the adj
venurers in question, belonging to the dregs of var-
Gus nations foreign 10 Mexico have invaded the ter
ruory of this Republicans malefactors with the design
OF overhrowing the established order of things they
have employed arms against an acknowledged and
respectable government, and they neither were nor
could have been, ignorant of the enormity of the
crime OF which they were rendering themselves gull
y The President conceves, Also that the office. of
pity and patronage which the ministers now seek to
perform, would have been more effcacous if they
had been directed preventively that is to say-by
taking measures proper to prevent the commission Of
the crime Great publicity was given at New Or
leans to the recruiting of these pirates and to all the
measures taken by the traitor Sentmanat to execute
his criminal enterprise, especially about the 9th of
May last, the day on which the embarcston of this
horde oil malefactors took place. The newspapers
of Now Orlnana andr la.4s.