Daily American telegraph., 1852-01-09

ruption---Attempt OF the Secretary OF
State TO stine inquiry by threatening
prosecution.
We have already informed our readers that the
true purpose Of the recent appearance OF nve
British vessels of-war off Vera Cruz was to IN
tmidate Mexico, and force her to receive from the
Earrings & Co. 1.-THE agents employed by Mr.. Web
ster to pay the indemnity under the treaty of
Guadalupe) deprecated Mexican bonds in lieu of
the gold and silver to which Mexico is entitled
under the treaty.
| We give now two extracts from memorial ad-
dressed to the President of the United States, on
the ed Of November 1851, by Messrs. Duff
Green and Ben. L. Green, in relation to the Mexi-
can indemnify:
ave call on you Mr.. President, to bear wit
ness to the propriety and extreme delicacy tow.
ards the American Secretary of State which
characterize this letter, (that Of The Merican Mn
iscr, sohch zoe published yesterday, suggesting that
The Senate should call for utormation,) and the
| whole conduct Of the Mexican Minister through
out this affair. We call on you also to bear wit
| ness that all the communications, one after an
other, of the Mexican government to Mr. DE la
Rosa, instructing him to support Mr. Marks's
contract, and to urge by every means in his
/
| ernments but at the same time carefully to
avoid doing anything which could wound Mr..
Webster were marked by the same decacy, by
the same high and elevated tone Of dignifed pro-
priety. We call on you also to bear witness that
we too, guided no less by our own feelings than
by the spirit of the instructions of the Mexican
government, have labored to manage this matter
in manner as little offensive to Mr.. Webster as
possible. We call on you to bear witness that,
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promise with those to whom Mr.. Webster had
given the contract and have been willing to trans
fer our contract to them-to surrender to them
part or all Of our interest-insisting only that the
good faith of the United States should be pre-
served that the wishes of the Mexican govern
ment should be gratifed, and that the drafts for
warded by that government, at the invitation of
Mr.. Clayton and at our instance, should not be
returned dishonored
y Your Excelency also knows that
Congress having adjourned on the 4th Of March
last, without having taken any action on this
subject Mr.. Letcher, our Minister in Mexico, with
whom Mr.. Marks had communicated, and acted
in concert in negotiating his contract with the
Mexican government, arrived in this city.
Aware Of the wishes of the Mexican government,
and of the many reasons both of public policy
and national character, for gratifying those
wishes, Mr.. Letcher was extremely anxious to
devise some means of doing so. You also ex-
pressed a desire to serve and crafty Mexico, but
felt compromised by the contract made by Mr..
Webster, who refused to vary that contract unless
by consent of the Earrings. Mr.. Letcher himself
undertook to obtain that consent He applied
to Mr. Corcoran, whose name appears in the con-
tract, and who expressed a willingness to COM
ply, 80 far as he was concerned He said, how
ever, that his interest in the tract merely
nominal that the Earrings & Co., Of London,
were the real parties interested; and that he
would write to Mr.. Ward, Of Boston, who was the
agent authorized to act for them in the matter.
Mr.. Ward replied that he had forwarded Mr..
Corcoran's letter to the Barings, in London, for
their decision thereon Mr.. Marks who was
about returning to Mexico, was requested to re-
main until answer could be received from
London. That answer was not received by due
course of mail. Several steamers arrived without
it; and when at last received, it was q refusal to
consent to any compromise. Now, we call your
attention to the fact, that about the same time,
perhaps by the same steamer which brought this
rejection of the compromise suggested by your
self, instructions were forwarded to the British
Charge, in Mexico, to demand Immediate pay
ment of the Mexican debt, (of which the Earrings
& Co. are known to be large holders, having
bought up Mexican bonds at mere nominal prices,
and to threaten blockade unless that demand
should be promptly complied with"
Well, Mr.. Doyle, the British Charge, demanded
payment of the bonds and threatened blockade.
To give force to that threat, British feet APP
peared off Vera Cruz. We denounced this pro-
ceeding, and explained its object To forestall
and prevent inquiry, the State Department, by
Geographic communication from Washington,
gave out that the appearance Of this British feet
was accidental, the admiral being en- route to Ja-
maica, his winter quarters. We exposed this
pretence by referring, as we now again refer, to
the chart. Let any one take the bearings Of Vera
Cruz and Jamaica, and answer, if the admiral was
merely en- route to Jamaica, where was he coming
from? How did these British ships Of war get
SO far out of their course, if they were going to
Jamaica Could it have been accidental? No.
John Bull is q better sailor than that. There
was motive for it, and that motive was to force
Mexico to accept from the Earrings & Co. depre-
ciated Mexican bonds, in lieu Of the gold and
silver which they are employed by Mr. Webster
to pay for the United States government.
To stife inquiry, to prevent the exposure Of
this nefarious attempt to speculate on the weak
ness of Mexico, to brighten us into silence, the
following remarkable document was prepared at
the State Department and sent to the Offices Of
the National Intelligcncer," the Republic"
and the Union" to be inserted editorially in
those papers. The first two published it as edi-
torial, as per order Of the department. The
Union" had the independence to rebuke such
an unwarrantable interference with the liberty Of
the press by an editorial comment, which we
subjoin:
"RELATIoNs OF THE UNITED STATES AND MEX.
Ico.-The following statement has been received