The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-11

The Rights OF American Citizens Abroad
The Case OF Wik0R Before Marcy.
Our readers are aware that the Chevalier
Wikoff, after serving out his term Of fifteen
months incarceration in a dirty italian jail at
Genoa, has returned to the United States and
published his book; that the book has proved
good speculation, and that the Chevalier has
been since equally successful as the great ope-
ratio diplomat and peace maker at the Academy
of Music. But this is not all. The Chevalier
Wikoff, like President Polk, goes for the "whole
of Oregon or none." Having turned his
"Courtship and its Consequences into hard
caeh, in spite Of the cruelty Of Miss Gamble
and the dungeon Of ST. Andrea, he has a set
Element to make with the State Department,
and has accordingly reported himself to Secre-
tary Marcy. The case may be stated in nut
shell.
The Chevalier's complaint is against Lord
Palmerston and Timothy Brown, of the British
government, and his demand is for PREPARATION
and indemnity as an outraged American citi-
zen. He charges that Timothy Brown, Eng
fish Consul at Genoa, acting under instructions
from the foreign Office at London, was the
chief instrument to that Imprisonment Of if
teen months in St. Andrea; that that
imprisonment, considering the offence, was
unusual and unjust; and that, in fact, it was
but trick Of the British foreign Office to crush
bin and his reputation as the safest way Of pre-
venting any evil effects from the disclosure by
Wikoff Of important diplomatic curiosities in
his possession. He had been in the secret
diplomatic service Of Lord Palmerston- had
been paid his salary, we believe, regularly
every quarter, until there was an explosion,
growing out Of that "courtship and it's conse-
quences." He had, therefore, abandoned diplo.
macy in the pursuit of Miss Gamble, when, as
he alleges he was brought up all standing at
Genoa by Palmerstons subordinate, the British
Consul at that place. the remorseless Timothy
Brown. This imprisonment, in this view, as
sumes the definite shape of an outrage upon an
American citizen by the Sandman govern
ment, instigated by the British and enforced
through its ready instrument the obedient
Timothy Brown.
Wikof insists that all this is coroborated
ny uln Ilul. Inc AmeIlCdH OOusul, IN MS be-
half, was compelled to take the usual oath
but the rough and hurley Timothy Brown was
permitted to testify without swearing and to
sit among the judges on the bench. Brown, in
fact, vas cock Of the walk, and the Sandman
Court only carried out the orders Of Brown. Wi
koff was not victimized by Miss Gamble, but BY
Brown, or rather, by the British foreign Office
represented by Brown. Aud this is the case
1t is q remarkable case. Compared with IL the
case Of Koszta was humbug. In the case
Of Captain Gibson by the eide OF 1t, was lucky
adventure. What will Marcy do? wikotf Is
a native American. He was in pursuit Of an
American lady and her fortune of eighty thou
sand pounds sterling, or half of it without the
lady, at the time Of his arrest 1t was no affair
of Timothy Browns Wikofi, as an American.
had pre- emption claim to Miss Gamble and
the money and in securing her aud her eighty
thousand pounds, both could probably have
been added to the wealth OF PHILADELPHIA or
New York, with the prospect Of large ia
crease through the industry and genius of Wi.
koff.
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