The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-12-20

before the prince and prlncese, who for months
from tune TO time, saw your petitioner awaiting il
their capital, JUST and reasonable indemnity
but who neither afforded him an opportunity to do so
nor even appeared 10 know that your petitioner was
the individual they had SO deeply wronged
callous repuse will be found to have marked
every step taken by urpettioner to obtain hear
ing or indemnity, utterly devoid of the shghtes,
indication or encouragement as 10 success The
assistance and repeated applications, during the
last four or five months of the stay of your petit
toner at the Hague, of the representative Of oui
fruitless.
A few of the evidences of the disposition mani.
tested towards your petitioner are annexed hereto
Before going to the Hague, the letter of the 10th
September annexed had been addressed from New
York, with the knowledge Of the charge, TO the
Chevalier Huyeins, then on diplomatic mission OF
his government al Copenhagen.
our petitioner, in London, on his way 10 the
Hague, and again in Holland, wrote him for an
answer to that letter, in which the services rem
dered by your petitioner under his direction were
las has been stately particularly adverted to in
detail In his answer, il will be seen, when speak
ing of his engagement with your petitioner for tn
twenty thousand dollars for your petitioners SER
vices under him, and of the other matters related
Z" duly received your letter of the 10th Of Sep
tember last, and the project you announced to me
answeTingit
every thing you tell me in relation to the claim
you make for just remuneration for the services
you have rendered to obtain the restitution of
the jewels of Her Royal Highness Madam the
Princess OF Orange, and the extradition of Car
rara, is perfectly true. The success of the cause
you advocated with so much zeal, and with so ma
ny difficulties and perils, ought undoubtedly TO be
worth That remuneration to you. Your labors and
services are known to the government, and were
represented by me, while the affair appertained to
my ministry, as favorably as the circumstances re-
CURED il OF me, and | believed in conscience to
be nay duty so to do Your claims, therefore, are
in no degree doubtful; and | have no doubt thew
will be favorably received"
That letter, put by your petitioner before the
king, producing no effect, in answer 70 a letter
from your petitioner, in explanation of so unex-
pected result, to the Chevalier Higgins he again,
on the 18th February, 1884, replied: " Neverthe-
less, am persuaded that the government does not
wish TO Illustrate you in the receipt of just remu
neIanon Tor your services in cause as difficult as
i was laborious and complicated, In which, as If
by miracle, aud with the aid OF Divine Providence,
we were enabled 10 succeed The government
knows these difficulties, and the king is tos lust
and too good to forget them"
This, in its turn, again laid before his king,
could obtain nothng--not even the courtesy or re-
spect OF an answer; and committee of your hon.
orable body will be asked, upon full submission
OF all The papers in his case, and as submitted in
wiring at the Hague, TO perceive that this DISPOSE
uon towards your petitioner was manifested with
out any Cause or preence of cause for dssatisfac-
ton Of any kind, other than such as was alleged to
be attributable TO the absence of their own charge
toner to the Hague.
Early in March, 1884, your petitioner presented
to his Majesty detailed epitome OF his services
and claims, with papers accompanying it, including
The letters from the Chevalier Huygins of the 7th
January and 18th of February, 1884, before men
toned which was answered, Gas will be seen by
schedule, folio l9o, that it would not be for the
interest OF your petitioner TO awate the answer
upon his application in that county,"
An attempt, by your petitioner, in another COM
municanon, on the 9th of April following, to lead
his application to the engagement of the Chevalier
Huygins as an tnstDiuI coDpfdssant, for that por-
uon OF the services of your petitioner which were
in no degree dependent on the remuneration due
your petitioner for services afterwards rendered I'M
der his son as charge, was answered Gas will be
seen by schedule, folio 1897 by stating in reply
-" that, until the charge returned, the government
could not enter for moment into any explanation
whatever" : 10y
The difficulties in which the charge had become
involved in the United States having prevented his
return to the Hague, and he having, during eight
months subsequent to your petitioners departure
for the Hague, frequently given assurances of his
intention to comply with the orders of his govern
ment to return, and so often failed to do so, your
peutoner, on the 18th OF June, 1884, asked Gas by
schedule, fobo 900, will appoar) an interview with
thetBsron deZuylep, then Minister, ad ntertpp, of
Foreign Affairs. and had from hun. in an interview.
the oral assurances related in the letter which your
petitioner, with the knowledge of the charge of
the government OF the United States at the Hague.
on that day, wrote to the relative in charge of the
view that he should, as he did, communicate it to
the charge of the Netherlands, and urge his re-
turn to the Hague, as therein stated.
On the 10Th Of Angus, following, the charge not
be ing willing or able 10 return your petitioner again
addressed the king, urging hearing Of his applica
ton upon whatever papers might be IN the archives
of the government OF the Netherlands-to which no
answer was obtained.
toner received from the government OF the Neither
lands, without be airing Of any kind on his claims,
the offer at 5000 orns, equal 10 81, 400 currency
of the United States, as in full Of all his services,
sacrifices, and indemnities-a sum actually less
than your petitioners necessary personal expendi-
lures while awaiting at the Hague an answer to his
application.
The maniiestly gross and violent injustice Of this
offer such that your petitioner Immediately left
the Hague, declining and refusing so preposerous
offer-an offer made TO your petitioner in utter
disregard of the agreement OF the Chevalier Huy-
gins for the services OF your petitioner during his
and which agreement the Chevaer Huygins had
communicated to his government three years pre-
viously, and to which no dissent was given during
that time, and upon the faith OF which and its est-
mate your petitioner had acted to the close of his
services and sacrifices. Your petitioner returned
TO his offices in The city Of New York, where he ar
rived on the Sth Of March, 1885.
Your petitioner had been, as is seen, retained
on the 18th day of July 1881, by the minister Of
The Netherlands, and, as he ayows, had set
aside, at his instance the pursuit OF professional
establishment in the city of New York, known
to the minister of the Netherlands to have been
then worth from eight to twelve thousand dollars
per snnum of ordinary receipts, upon the assurance
of the Minister Of the Netherlands, as the repre-
sentative of his King and family, and of his GO
vernment, expressly authorized thereto, that full
and ample compensation and indemnity would be
secured by him to your petitioner for his services
and sacrifices in the pursuit Of their interests and
purposes. The time intervening between the re-
tainer and return Of your pctitioner-during which
- nd ,Hn~s had hona law I'D
to the onerous and important exigencies of the
case-had then been three years and eight months.
The mere ordinary and casual receipts OF his gene
raj business, had 1t not been inroaded upon and
broken up by this retainer, would have been, by all
fair and ordinary anticipations. ten thousand dol
lars per annum, as the rate OF bis ordinary re-.
ceipts. The necessary expenses Of the voyage OF
your petitioner TO the Hsguc, Of four thousand dol
lars, added thereto, would be foriy-iwo thousand
dollars Of loss which your petitioner had been sub
jected to when the offer of twenty-four hundred
dollars was made to him, Irrespective OF fair and
just indemnity for the total disruption Of such an
ofah1 ah he fof of lab