New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-22

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Although l have. already communicated to
you all important particulars of the negotia-
tions that have here gone on with respect to the
Black Warrior, it may be desirable, as the affair
may possibly prove both tedious and trouble
some, that should furnish few further details,
to enable your readers to trace it from its COM
meneement. 1t would appear that the notes
interchanged upto the present time between Mr..
Soule and the Spanish Government, are five in
number No. i, presented by the American
Minister, stated the complaints he had to make,
and the atonement he was instructed to demand,
and required q positive reply within 48 hours
No. 2, from the Spanish Government, declared
its inability to reply to his communication until
such time MS it should have received informa-
ton on the subject from the authorities in the
island of Cuba. This brought forth No. 5, q
most irate and discourteous document from Mr.
Soule, in which he taxed the Spanish Govern
ment with seeking excuses to postpone a reply,
and, as | am informed, affirmed, or at least in
simulated, that the Government had received dis
patches from Havana since the affair in ques-
ton, because advices had been received in Eu-
rope since that date from the same quarter.
The terms In which this note was couched
were so offensive that the Spanish Minister must
have been craven indeed, not to have returned
a spirited and indignant answer. Such an one,
| am assured, was sent, and SO strong was 1t
L.
Soule would avail himself of the opportunity to
demand his passports, and thus extricate him.
self from the unpleasant position in which he
had found himself since his duel with nj. Turgot.
You are aware, believe, that since the untor-
tunate and most unoalled for encounter into
which the French Minister was, I may say,
dragged by the strange parsonage whom the
United States Government has thought proper
to delegate to the Spanish Court, the latter has
been looked upon with great GOODNESS here, and
has been omitted from all but those official inv-
tations and courteses which his diplomatic office
rendered inevitable At the Court, it is true,
he has been made much of, but it has been we'll
understood that these attentions were suggested
by desire on the part of the high persoaages
who paid them to cast an indirect slight on the
Ministers of England and France. To the sur
prise, however, of its senders, No. note, far
from eiiclting furious retort, or a demand for
passports, WAS replied to in terms far milder and
more becoming than those of the note that had
provoked it; and there the matter rests for the
present. | should add (what perceive have
omitted) that, if my information be correct, dis
patches from Havana reached the Spanish Min
lister just as he was preparing the second note,
enabling him, by the information thew brought.
to give additional strength and completeness to
his communication repelling the charges brought
against the Colonial Government, rejecting the
terms proposed, and yindicating the Cuban Off
cialS from any deviation from the Spanish laws
and established usages Of the Island The worst
they can fairly be accused of, believe. is o
little precipitation in the performance of their
duty.
The general feeling here with respect to the
conduct of the United States Government and
its enemy in this business is, that an attempt is
being made to fix wolf and lamb quarrel on