Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-27

in the affairs Of Cuba, by scrupulous performance Of ali
the obligations Spain may have contracted towards her.
either Of apeeunary character connected with the
existing GSeements between the two nations in relation
to he SLAVE trade No proper opportunity of which you
avail yourself without mourning the risk Of being
tppght &uous should be allowed to escape you to let
th$panIsA Government be fully informed Of the views
wentertkn with regard to the island set forth in
Ase instructions and in the others file in the legation
And yow hold yourself in readiness, should the
sion arise formally to protest. in the name OF your Gov
enment against any act whether of Spain herself Of
any other Power likely to lead to transfer Of her terri
oria right to the island of Cuba to the military
patton of it by the forces of any other nation.
Mr. Hedster to Mr.. E0iag.-E Extract.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, JANUARY II, 1843.
have the honor to transmit copy Of private and
confidential letter addressed by this Department the
4h instant to Mr. Robert b. Campbell, Consul of the
United States at Havana 1t drawn forth by nfor
nation recently communicated to the Department from
source SO reputable that it could fail to awaken some
concern The archives of your legation will show you
that the subject OF supposed designs upon the island of
Cubaby the British Government is by no means new and
you will also find that the apprehension Of such project
has not been unattended to by the Spanish
1t was accordingly in view Of what had already assed
and what had recently TRANSFERRED calculated to excite
anxiety the part Of this Government in regard to its
relations with what is to the interesting portion
Of the Spanish empire that it was thought expeden to
give your predecessor special directions about it, which
you will see in the instructions to him from this Depart
ment dated on the 10Th July, $780, and numbered q To
these instructions you particularly referred as
well as to confidential despatch from Mr.. Vail mum
bered 1O) of the 18th Of january l84, detailing what
passed in conference with NJ De Ferrers that time
Minister of Foreign Affairs at Madrid from which you
will learn the views and the ground taken by this Gov
ernment which renquish. From the perusa
of these documents you will at perceive the neces-
sy proprety Of carefully reviewing those Instructions
and acting upon them in the mode that you may
most udicous for the purpose Of again pointing the
Ia u
carousness Of the tenure by which Spain is supposed
hold her possessions in this quarter and to obtain for
your Government the best intelligence which is any way
connected with the subject
Whether recent reports not unfounded or
exaggerated it is nevertheless highly desirable that you
should sound the Government of Span in order that the
United States may know its sentiments and purposes with
the same certainty and disncness that those Of the
United States have been unreservedy and repeatedly
made known to it.
copy of my letter to the Consul has just been placed
by in the hands of the Chevalier DArgaiz Minister
of Spain, in Washington.