New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-14
THE SAN JACINTO AT BORDEAUX

from Our Special Correspondent
PARIS Monday, Nov. q, 1854
\ A private correspondent at Bordeaux furnishes
( me some details of the embarkation of Mr.. SOule
( 1t that port few days ago. which may prove in
{ terestiDg to your readers. AS the steamer San
JacintO was coming into port, Capt. StrioliDg
sent note to Mr.. Bowen, American Consul, an
bouncing the fact, and desiring that the authcri-
Mes should indicate place for the moOrage of the
Vessel. The next day another note arrived from
the captain, stating that the pilots refused to
bring the vessel up, alleging want of depth in
HE water of the harbor for vessel of her magni-
ltude. This was the first American an-of-war
t4hat had ever been seen in those waters, aud no
vessel, they said, drawing the same water, had
lever entered the port. The Commissary of Ma
lrine consented to her entrance; but on the third
l1sy another note arrived from the captain. saying
that demand had been made upon him to pay
Quarantine dues before coming up, and that the
Vessel should deposit all her powder and ammu-
nition at the fort, forty miles below the city near
which she lay.
From these circumstances, and from the silence
lof the journals the Consul suspected that it was
not the intention Of the authorities TO allow the
vessel to come up at all, and he, therefore, sent
a note to the Project of Police, complaining Of
the distractions which had, apparently, been put
lin the way of the ships landing. day was
fakep TO consider the matter, aud then an order
Has given that the ship should be permitted to
come up without delay. Mr.. Soule, in his anx-
|gety to &c. on to Madrid without further inter-
suptio1s. wished to go down the stream and meet
the vessel; but the Consul, after the authorities
aad exhibited such uncourteous conduct, pre-
vailed ON bin to allow the ship to first come
into port On Friday the San Jacinto came up
and the next morning, at 9 O'Clock, she salated
the city with twenty-one guus from her 69'pound'
ers. The cannenadiDg was SO unusual in that
port and the report Of her big guns so loud
that the entire city rushed to the wharyes
10 see what could be the occasion OF 1t. The
stars and stripes floating at the mast head was
a. great sn enigma for many of them as the
csnnonading itself The Consul. with party OF
Americans, visited the ship at IL o'clock, when
another salute was fred. The Consul then called
with the Captain on the various public officers
Of Importance in the city and port, and on the
following day the same persons were received on
board with appropriate salutes Marvellous re-
ports of the msgbitude and extraordinary quail
ties of the vessel had spread, and the Captain
having thrown her open to visitors indiscrini-
casely, more than 5000 persons visited her on
The day on which the officers Of the city were
! seceiyed on board. The three following days
kmquets were given to Mr.. Soule and family at
". Bowen's house, at the Hotel de la PAX, and
on board the ship, at which speeches were made
md toasts drank in the best Of feeling. As Mr..
3. and family went on board finally to leave
salute was fred, and the vessel steamed away
(owsrd st. Andre, on the Spanish coast, where
". Soule intended to debark.