Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-01-07
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
COMMODORE AULIcK AND MR.. sCHENCK.
DAYTON, ONO, DrcEnBEn o6. lsI

letters and certificates. The object of his publication is
% answer and deny the accuracy of official despatch
made by me to the State Department the st day Of
August 1851; and which, being communicated to the
Navy Department have been the occasion Of his
recall from the command of the East India squadron.
The short comment aud statement which l shall make
will satisfy every one, think that the Commodore,
while presenting apparent refutaon has made both
In his communication to the Secretary Of the Navy and
In his present appeal to the public nothing than
an ingenious evasion of the charge against him.
What that charge! will restate it, that there
shall be possibility Of mistake. :.
reported Mr. Webster the Secretary Of State that
Com. Aalick being directed, l had understood TO
convey Mr. Macedo the Brazilian Minister, to Rio de
Janeiro in the frgats Susquehanns the cost Of our
Government had permitted him to make the whole pas
sage from the United States that port and leave the
ship, without communicating to him the fact that proy
sion made for the whole expenses Of his voyage that
an short while that gentleman to be provided for and
taken the nations guest the Commodore carried him
to his destination and landed him there giving him dis
tnctly to understand ifi said him in express
terms that he indebted to the hospitality Of that
officer himself for his entertainment This information
stated that had derived from Mr. Macedos deca-
ration to me. .~s...... ."..7 s.a. H..
now reafhrm that statement, and will further add
gentleman well his amabty and intelligence that
soethstandng any denial By Com. 1n!ck, hare nat
ou6 OF he eoryssn... Gectara,on srpsry particular
And however the Commodore may have subsequently put
himself in the way Of and accepted the hospitality of
Mr. Macedo at London confident that he could not
succeed in obtaining any thing from that gentleman
tradicting what related by him to
/ feel warranted in making the narrative more
explicit and particular 1t the evening before
arrival in the harbor Of Rio that Mr. Macedo, while we
converng deck together requested to be inform
ed by to the amount paid by Mr.. Pendleton and
myself for mess-bil the passage. He said it
not from idle curiosity that he made the inquiry but
that he desired know how much would be proper for
him to insist also upon giving for his share of the prov
sion and accommodations; that he had spoken to Com
Aulck before leaving the United States and offered to
advance his proportion but that the Commodore had put
him off then with the remark that it mere baga
tee and of no consequence; to give himself no trouble
the subject that it could add little nothing to the
actual expense perhaps forty dollars for forty days. and
desired that no might be said about t;' and no
more had been said But Mr. Macedo went say to
me that under all the circumstances of voyage, wish
ing not to remain under personal obligation to Com
Auck he must insist still upon paying at least much
charged Mr. Pendleton me or if the Commodore
refused to accept money compensation he would make
explained Mr.. Macedo that he the guest not of
Com Auk but of the Government of the United States
and that the ample and liberal payment had been
made had heard, for his bill and accommoda
ton He seemed quite much surprised to learn this
fact then and thus evidently for the first time eommun
Gated him, astonished and mortified to find
that he did not know it before. After further con-
versaton it understanding that he should say
nothing to the Commodore. desired to see whether 1t
was possible that that officer would allow him to leave
the ship under such msappprehenson, without some
distinct communication of the attention and cvilities
which the authorities Washington had designed to
tend to distinguished foreign representative and,
through him, his Government. After arrival in
Brazil was visited by and visited Mr.. Macedo, and
learned from him that he had thus left the ship and had
received no further explanation from Com. Aulick.
My Official relation to the Government left alter
native however dsagrceable the but report this
strange conduct did, to the Secretary of State Mr.
Macedo know will excuse fer the had then to
make, and make now again, of his name and statements
in this conne1ion not only because he will appreciate
the duty had to perform, but because informed him at
the time that would feel constrained to apprize my Gov
ernment at home of what had occurred.
And now what has Com. Aulick answered to this and
with what proof to sustain him.
He says that he recolects showing Mr. Macedo his in
6tructons, informing MIN OF tnem, DeIore leaving
Washington But this is hardly consistent with propo-
son which he says that gentleman made afterwards in
Norfolk purchase mattress and bed clothes. sup
pose myself that Mr. Macedos idea Of his liability, Of
the expense that the Commodore at his account
may have been confined to the bi and it is admit
ted by Com Aulick that there conversation between
them the same probably that Mr. Macedo referred to in
nis statement me, which calculated to leave that
impression on his mind
But the Commodore that he did, after his arrival
in Rio de Janeiro send to Mr. Macedo copy of his in
strucons from the Navy Department, and has obtained
and publishes letter from John B. Randolph, his flag
lieutenant to prove the fact have disposition tc
conrover take issue that unmporant assertion
mere than upon the statements obtained from Mr. Ran
dolph and Mr. Bettnger that they heard conversations
between the Commodore and Mr.. Macedos brsther and
other Brazilian gentlemen about the attentions that had
been shown to the Minister This testimony might have
been possibly value dates had been given The
Susauehanna arrived in the harbor of Rio and wen,
ashore on the 26th Of July She remained there some
two months repair Immediately after arrival
when learned under what impressions Mr. Mscedo had
made the voyage and been landed in his own country,
expressed freely my judgment Of what the Commodor,
himself in his letter the Secretary, cannot help bu
characterize 81 base and shallow fraud, and
ed nv determination American Minister to Brazil t.
make it the subject Of official complaint
This was known to my predecessor Mr. Tod, and ap
proved by him, by the American residents there gene
rally and by the officers of the Susquehanna including
- - do,ht tba Cnmmodore. / communics ed tha