The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-12-31

Special Correspondence Of the NJ Y. Daily Iimes.l
HAVANA, Thursday, Dec. ~, IS,

HAVANA luuisady Ice. -, 1899.
The notice OF which this is translation appeared 10
the official paper prior TO the departure OF the last steamer
bu, not being enabled 10 obtain correct history OF the
case that period, deferred sending II you until had
done so
Room Isl Of the Real Audiencia Justice and
in conformity with the representations made by the 81.
Fiscal OF the same they have decreed the supeedng OF
the cause which pending against tho lieutenant OF
cavalry governor OF tue New Php inas Don
Paniseon L. AioD who was ported TO have been gully
the Ensenada de Baen and in correspondence the said
jurisdiction, which has not found amy merit Whatever 10
time by the Real Audiepcia, that there is
defan the place OF employment Of the said chief there
70 cause This be published by the Official Gazette for
the good fame and opinion Of the Interested party
!" Havana. l2ln Dec. 1903 +"
The foregoing. strangely as ii may read to The OF
Americans, is correct translation of Spanish official
document and despite the representations made by the
Ssno Fiscal OF the Real Audencia am enabled TO de-
clare that Don Panaleon L. Ailon is gly OF the charge
preferred against hn that he did covertly aid in the
landing OF the said Bozal negroes in the month OF May
last and received six thousand dollars in hard money Tor
such assistance. more gross Job was never perpeFa.
ted. II was not convenient TO declare high official
guilty OF such offence would have brought disgrace
on all The administration, OF which he member. TO
have done so, asd therefore he was acquitted And
this is the justice" (leaven the mark y admins
Tered by the royal coaIto pictorial justice" in the Ha
vana
The African slave trade dourishes enormously. A
brig under Spanish colors landed in the early part OF
the present month"; six hundred Boza negroes Glen
fuegos. II was intended to have landed this cargo at
st. Jago de Cuba but when the brig that port
she received information that British cruiser, supposed
TO be the EspeIge, was IN sight OF the Moro and the
brig then ran down TO lseward, and landed her living
freight al Clenuegos. The name OF the brig is not
known. She was destroyed by fire Her captains name
is Don jaime Pol, who has been tie coast of Africa
above circumstances being made known him by OF
The British officials here, replied that he had been made
aware OF previously by private information, but that
he chad understood the negroes had been landed in
nj district q the 0ffcpr which he
had given orders 10 apprehend the negroes, &c, SC
lest, however, his information should be incorrect
the locality where the negroes disembarked he
would cause orders to be Immediately Transmitted to The
officers at and Cenuegos requiring them TO do
what requisite in The matter" This sounds well to
The but the unfortunate Africans doomed to bond
age 10 their latest hour.
On the l2,h inst another brig, whose name is also
known, under Spanish colors, landed cargo Of 355 ne
groes ran the coast OF Africa at bay the south side
of this island called the Enseada de Coftez This brig
was also burned. Upon the captaln-general being in.
formed OF this aforementioned case, he is understood to
have made somewhat similar reply in the frstDen-
toned one adding however, that if the Africans had
reached estate he could moi touch Them The law being
against his doing SO Such is the lamenlable truth. al.
though tho late captain general, Caedo, regardless OF
the law, as am Informed, did more than occa-
sion seize Africans after they had been placed upon the
sugar estates ihls case is TIE SUBJECT OF common con,
yersaton 10 certain circles and will probably be referred
TO by other letter for he New York press Thus
within single month, you will perceive nearly 1000
Africans have been sold into cruel slavery Tor, in all
probability, the terms Of their natural lives In addition
to the foregoing, am enabled to add the names and de-
scorpions oil The following vessels known have sailed
from the coast OF Africa recently with slaves for this
island
Spanish brig Dos Ilermanos; Spanish barque Manola
Spanish brgan,lne or schooner Jesus, Spanish brig Noa
dofe, Spanish ship paqulro Austrian ship Olympia; Sar
oman brig Nosira Mato ia del oreto; Sandman smack
Mesquina Portuguese baque Sierra de Pillar; Purlug
brig Bola Togo; Portuguese brig San Juan Basts Por
tuguese schooner Lgera supposed Spanish baque Car
menclla
should suppose this list, which is now for the first
time made public, would rouse the eneniesend all good
men are sucbo the African slave trade 10 make some
more strenuous efforts 10 lis utter humiliation.
The correspondence between MIR. Il T. Corbin OF
! Virginia, and Lord Howden, The British minister al
Madrid, was received here by the before last
and has attracted very general and marked attention
Presumlng this correspondence has been published al
least in some OF The New York newspapers. and as il
would appear TO utterly contradict the assertions made by
me ~ previous letters upon the subject which treats
am induced 10 embrace this opportunity 10 oIet few
observations 10 relation thereto at the risk of being
charged with presumption, as the humble correspondent
OF the Daily Times daring to offer direct contradiction
10 so mighty parsonage "iiye lord,p and he, ieo
The British minister near the court OF Madrid; yet /
shall risk all this. because prepared prove, If
qnisite all ] shall assert and declsre-tha, II Lord
ilowden, honorable man though he be, has not been
gully OF direct untrulh, h mast have most conve
nien memory which believe ia one OF the requisite
qualifications OF experienced English diplomatiss. But
admit, Tor The sake OF Argument all that Lord How
den says is true and that his diplomatic abos nj Madrid
mark We, during The last three years have been conhned
ls 10 "making uDceasDg representations at the nun
Der OF slaves annually imported into this island. and
complaints OF the almost open manner IN which the fa
nc was carried on under the very Of the captains
general always excepting the excellent Gen. Concba !
"a, 10 The making ifu,ess attempts 10 get the Spanish
government to declare the abominabe traffic in men,
piracy y 30, IN anxious solicitations 10 obtain the Ill
nmae and complete freedom oil those negroes called
em1ncipados, who have been raudnlenuy detained in
bondage since the year 1917 IN disregard oil treaties -
and 18th, In "enaeayorBg to procure the abrogaon OF
that iniolerant and immoral law by which foreigners
wishing TO setie in Cuba obliged TO change their re-
ligion, NC, &c. Besides which, Lord HowdeD writes
Mr. Corbn that che has added various tines friendly
and ofhcla exbofaoDs 10 improve the Rierna system OF
the island, by facilitating the administration OF justice
and by liberazing the nomInlon TO Office and employ
ment among The natives OF the island" And this Lord
Howden' writes, has been bis entire diplomatic nego-
usiions With the Spanish government for the past three
years Assuming 10 myself the right To put single
guestor 10 this honorable British minister Madrid
would ask II he has not been direcied during the pres.
eh' year. By Lord Clarendon" TO make "repfcsena
uon TO The spanish government the style and tone
OF the answers returned by the captain general TO Official
communications addressed 10 him BY The British consul
general 10 this island respecting mfr actions OF the treaties
regarding The African slave trade; and did he did he
no. nake such an Official representation As this very
rng and unimportsDt matter appears 10 have entirely
escaped Lord Howden's memory, is II possible, or
rather probable, he has also iorgoen other matter
which also has been the subject Of portion OF his
diplomatic sbors But surprising that he has not so for
gotten, - no, this the first in which an expe-
Henctd English diplomast has made known. or her.
united 70 be made known, what subjects have formed biz
ens o1cal labors for so long PERIOD hree years;n
May not, therefore, this letter of Lord Howden's be
looked upon with an eye OF suspicion May not sup
pose Lord Howden to have written in a sPckwlckian
sense But, TO follow the Latin maxim, pare<re pr
sonis deere de ris, will not again mention hi. ord.
sbips name will simply inquire il there has not been