Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-15
FROM Ar.sllso. /.

i We have already (says the Pieayune) mentioned
tthe notes which have passed between Senior RAMIREZ
the Minister Of Foreign Relations and the Foreign
Ministers, on the subject Of the Ayalos tariff Senior
RAMIREZ, in his reply, as much as said that it
none of their business, and that they would do well
to leave Mexico to manage her own affairs, This
has drawn another note from the Foreign Ministers,
which we translate below; -
ts-1,e. Mexico, MARCH 81. 1862.
Phe undersigned ENJOYS Extraordinary and Ministers
Plenipotentiary Of the United States Great Brtai paia
France and the Minister resident of Prussia have recev
ed the reply which his exceency the Minister of Foreign
Relations has made to their note of March 18TH in which
they demand the prompt restoration Of the unity of the
tariff in all the ports Of the Mexican Republic
In making this demand in the Of foreign COM
merce, menaced with complete ruin by the fatal nequa
lity which the Avaos tariff induces between the
chants of the North and those Of Tampco and Vera Cruz
and in indicating the which in their view would be
the quickest and most ecacious for remedyng the evils
Of the existing state Of things the undersigned have
considered themselves wishing ntermeddlc in the
arrangements Of the custom house regulations but they
have exercised right and fulfilled duty, in claiming
for their respective countrymen the equal application Of
the law. They win not abandon this right and they win
persist in fulfilling this duty. ..sss
The undersigned perceived with regret that his excel
tency Don Jose Ramirez instead of examining with atten
ton the they have pointed out for escaping from
this abnormal and runous position contents himself with
avowing the poweriessness Of the Federal Government
to compel respect for its own laws. II
The undersigned far from exciting their counryuen 70
legal resistance, demand the contrary that
the law be applied equally to ALL The Government
says his excelency Don Jose Ramirez would see itself
reduced to the painful necessity Of enforcing the execu
ton Of the laws against such foreign merchants as refuse
to submit to its decrees His Excelency forgets that
resistance this occasion is by directed against
the laws in force in Mexico but only against violation
Of those laws which, regard to customs, guaranty
legal treatment in every port Of the republic Of every
merchant, whether Mexican or foreign. - 1
His excellency Don Jose Ramirez in protesting his
lively desire to do justice TO the reclamaons the under
signed, makes an appeal to their loyalty if they had
ever been found wanting in loyalty His Excesncy isnot
ignorant Of the contrary, and to-day heretofore,
count their aid to combat the difficulties which
tary threatens the harmony that till has existed be-
tween Mexico and their respective Governments But
what their good viii avail IL the other hand the
Mexican Government is constantly parayzed in its action
by the resistance OF apathy Of Congressf = & =
Without entering anew the discussion, the under
signed viii only repeat to his Exceency that such state
of things cannot be prolonged without serious danger
international relations without ruin TO commerce and
is under the dominion just fears that the undersigned
do not hesitate to declare i here and that they
caly insist the adoption OF some measure, at the
least provisional, avert such result. So eaef
In their opinion this consists simply IN auhor-
zng the foreign merchants Of Vera Cruz and Tampco to
pay duties conformably to the Avalos tariff reservng,
however to the Government the right Of exaeng the adj
dtonal duties which may conform to new general tariff,
wisely framed and passed BY the legislative body
IT. notwithstanding their hopes and wishes, the ami
cable counsel given by the undersigned has no effect;
Congress persstng in its nacon refuses to search out
and apply prompt and radical remedy the undersigned
declare with regret that it will be impossible for them
longer to bear the responsibility Of the consequences Of
the position In which their countrymen engaged in
merce are placed
The undersigned with pleasure take this occasion Of
newng his exceency Don Jose Ramirez the assurance
Of their distinguished consideration. !, 49, ...rs
The Monitor says that Santa ANNA has written letter
to his partisans declaring that he viii furnish them with
no more funds for revolutionary purposes that be has
already them $3.50 000 which they have squandered;
that they have basely and vIanousy deceived him and
that they Of miserable towards terrified by tha
bare mention of ARfsTA's name. sH
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Bishop H.mLIS Of the Methodist Episcopal Church has