Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-05-04

he following is the British Minister'S letter to the
Giamor Publco alluded to in the accounts of the
Diplomatic difficulty at the Court of Madrid which
we have previously published
g Sir and Esteemed Friend The Minister of the
Interior having decided with too much precipitation
and without previous communication with me, that
no British subject had been in any manner molested
in the exercise of his religion at Seville there remains
for me no other resource than to employ the means
of publicity which happily still exist 10 recfy asser-
tons which are not in accord with facts beg you,
therefore, to have the goodness to publish in your
excellent journal the present protestaton, by which
declare, in my turn, what M the Minister of the
Interior has said On this subject to be entirely
inexact.
1t IS not my intention by that to say that NJ. the
Minister has with deliberate purpose made sugges.
ito fa(sl, but Suppress'o Uerl which it is impossible
for to overlook 1t is quite true that the civil
authority of Seville refused to interfere in the affair
as was required by one of the priests of the wise
chapter of that diocese; but it is also true that the
ecclesiastical authorities, or pretending to be such,
ntimated 10 the English Gle :gyman in question to
suspend the private reunions (Which never reached
twenty personS) which he held Sundays in his
house; that these ecclesiastical authorities or
calling themselves SUCH intimaed to the mistress of
the house that if she continued to tolerate these
reunions the house should be taken from her (being
presume church property and that in conseq
of this double intimidation, which may without exag-
geraton be called persecution in the aga in which
we live, the English clergyman had suspended his
reunions, and sought another lodging, to deliver
himself and deliver his hostess from al! moestaton
on the subject. leave meanwhile for the consld-
Grafton of NJ the Minister to decide whether the
word modest is suitably applied in this case.
| have the honor, &c. HowDEN"
The statement made to the Cores by the Minister
of the Interior which called forth the letter from
Lord Howden, follows -
" The Ambassador OF H. B. NJ has made q remon-
STRANGE, based the fact that at Seville the civil
authority has dSqueted clergyman and many
individuals belonging to the Protestant sect who were
occupied in secret with their religious rites The
government, believing it within its competence, i'm
mediatey entered into communication with the gov
ernor of Seville.
In his answer, which have Just received the gov
ernor informs me that the fact is altogether inexact
that in effect, there is Protestant minister there
named Anthony Fritz, who resides with his wife in a
private house that, upon the royal ORDER he charged
the commssaries of public surveillance to inquire if
any event had occurred in the sense indicated. The
governor adds, that in their reply, of which have
copy, the cOmmssaries declare that they have no
knowledge of any one having moleSted that clergy
man or his family; that they know nothing of the
clergyman having given the least scandal or the
slightest motive for pursuing such conduct toward
him; that, on the contrary, the which he has
taken to send to all holidays Catholic SER
want he employs has been remarked This is what
has passed; the Cores know it already"
During the late tornado which passed over Missis.
sppl up tltee OAO"luR uoWn houses ana Kill
ing cattle, an incident occurred near Paulding in
that State, which is worthy of record:
A young married couple were alone in the forest
occupants Of a home, and distant two miles from
the nearest neighbor. They had retired to rest and
absorbed in slumber, when the roar of the hur
ricane came; like sonorous wailing through the
primeval trees, the fierce wind struck their house
tumbling the logs around and about them The lady
after much effort, succeeded in extricating herself
but found to her momentay dismay that her husband
was enombed in the wreck of their dwelling, and
that it would be impossible for her to relieve him un
aided. She reflected but moment, when, turning &c
her husband, she uttered some cheering words, anO
announced her determination to go in quest of asss
lance. Forth she went, in the midst of the bowling
storm, the winds singing requiem the ruiz
they had caused, and the stately trees still crash
ing in their fall before the omnipotence of the TEN
pest But she needed not the danger; buoyed by
strong Affection she moved onward incarnation o.
heroism and self-sacrifcng love, through the hurri
canes track, and reached unframed the residence
her neighbor. Assistance was procured and he
husband restored to as true wife as ever halewet
with felictes the life of
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