Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-11-22
aIr. soale,s RepulsiOn from rance.


letters from London aud Paris, giving the.
particulars of the expulsion Of Mr.. Sople,
the American Minister to Spain, from
France, and the subsequent action OF the
American Ministers in London and Paris.
A letter dated London, Oct. 81, gives the
annexed account of the repulsion:
Mr. soule, having spent two days in
London, set,out last Tuesday for Madrid,
via France. On his arrival at Calais, he
was asked to show his passports, and.
having done so, was required to step into
an inner room of the Bureau de Police
Here he was told that he must leave the
country by the next steamer, and that he
would not be allowed in the meanwhile to
go any where ous of Calais, being, in fact,
placed under surveillance.
There must be mistake, sir said our
Minister; 'do you know who l am 2
There is not the slightest mistake, sir,
was the reply; you are MIR. Soule, the
Ambassador of the United States of Anne
RIGA at the Court OF Spain, and l have or
ders not to let you pass
Where are your orders p asked Mr..
SouIe.
'This.is no business of yours, sir; these
them said the Commissary.
This happened at Calais Something
more was said. but of no public concern.
Mr.. Soule left by the next steamer, and
reached London late in the evening day
before yesterday. The news being made
known in American circles, the greatest
excitement prevailed, and, as may be ina
gined, measures of all sorts were suggest
ed amidst great Indignation.
The writer goes on TO say this was not
intended as an insult to Mr.. Soule, the
man, but an insult to Mr.. SouIe the minis
Ter, and therefore to the U. S. Government,
as an answer OF European despotism TO the
Congress OF American Democratic Diplo-
maliSts, recently held in the Netherlands
The writer adds that among the many
I persons who hold this opinion is Mr.. Rev
erdy Johnson, of Baltimore, who wrote in
that spirit very long letter to MIR. Ma,
son. We here quote what she corresPon-
dent subsequently says:
Air. Mason-;he news of the Calais out
Foreign Office and wished to see N
Drouyn de L'Huys insnledia!ely. lie aOaS
keft s0ajtjng tao fill hours. Admitted at
last, he remarked, first Of all, upon his
tardy reception. Some apologies were
made, but i'll tone and rAauuer that con.
yiacel Mr.. Mason that he had been left
waiting purPosety. He dropped tina mat
ter, however, and asked the reason Wy
Mr.. Sou!e had not been permitted TO pass
through France en- route to Spain.
Well salt ii. Drouyn de L'EIuys. in
a very impairment tone, there are reasons
for that Being pressed orthese teasons,
AR. Mason was told that there were three
OF them First, the treatment Of III, Dbl
ION, French Consul in California. Sec
ondly, the letter Of Mr.. Sanders to the
French people; and thirdly, Cuba.
The French Foreign Secretary said that
the Imperial Government cannot be ex-
pec;ed to treat in the usual friendly way
the citizens OF State that has behaved in
such ostile manner towards it.
am told that Mr.. Mason replied in the
way that will have occurred to every one
else on being told those reasons He
said that the affair OF Mr. Dillon was, il
The worst possible construction, bus The
mere bi"nder OF a court Of justice, and thai
it cannot, accordingly, be made parable
with a case in "hich the United States ere
insated by order OF the highest authority
OF another State. The letter Of Mr.. San
ders WAS the act Of an individual, who had
moreover, been recalled from an o!licia
position before he published any thing
Americans have the right to say VIVA
they like, and the Government has no con
troll over their pens and presses.
This is a personal matter, which could
perhaps. have excused discourtesy to
wards the Citizen Sanders, if he shout
have presented himself Oh the frontiers o
France, but it certainly did not authorize
a step like that against the U. s. Minister
AS to Cuba, Mr.. Mason absolutely denied
l-if l am we'll informed the right o
any Power to NEEDLE with difficulties Lha
may have arisen between Spain and the
United States. He, at all events, coulc
not see how questions Of foreign policy
can be treated by affronts offered to &
friendly power. The two Ministers part
ed vccy much excited, and Mr.. Mason
was fully prepared to ask for his passports
He sent, however, the special messcngel
to Mr.. Buchanan, before deciding upon
that step.
Another London letter, dated the 3lst
ult., says:
am again assured that French fec
will soon be sent to the West Indies. =
The person, who is very positive in his
information, writes me that the principal
I reason OF that quarrel is to be sought in
the wish to have a pretext for sending a
protecting squadron to the waters of St.
Domingo, the quasi annexation of which
isl to be impeded by any means. Another
informan.is of opinion that the whole affai,
is but palace intrigue, concocted and
carried out to please the Duchess of AL
ba, who, as you know, is the sister Of the
Empress E5enie Montijo.
However that may be. the English are
very much afraid of the consequences OIL
that unlocked for affair. They begin, for
! The frst tinn 10 think Of the crrn,.e d;si