The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-04
MEXICAN AFFAIRS-CONDUCT OF MIR. OF,
WAY, THE BRIT ISH MINISTER.

From the London Times City Article July 49,
The accounts from Mexico indicate that an ac-
tive intervention on the part of the United States
may be Immediately expected, not in the shape of a
declaration of war, since the Washington Cabinet
friendly to the Constitutional party but by en-
enlargement being given to American citizens to
volunteer to serve againt Miramon. Mr.. McLane,
the American Minister, had distinctly intimated to
the usurping President, as Mramon is considered
by him to be, that under circumstances will he
be allowed to evade responsibility for ii outrages
lately committed. His defeat and expulsion must
therefore be merely question of time. The con-
duct of Mr.. Otway, the British Minister, continued
to be discussed with much anger. The letters which
reach New York from American writer's on this
subject are, however, nearly always so mendacious
in their reliance upon the ignorance and the hos
tile preudices of their readers to be totally
less to persons seeking to form an honest Judgment
Hence, if there were no better evidence, the
charges circulated would be unworthy of attention;
put the present papers publish an official correspon-
dence which creates an unfavorable impression
| number of British residents having addressed
a memorial to Mr.. Otway describing the atrocities
committed by the troops of Miramon at Tacubaya-
including the murder of an English surgeon who
was assisting the wounded, and the seizure and in.
tended execution under the most treacherous cir.
cumstances of an Englishman named Lelby-were
kept without the courtesy of reply for fifteen
DAYS, and then received curt lecture on the irrep.
ularity of their proceedings. They had asked MI.
| Otway that, under the dangerous and abnormal
situation in which they found themselves, he should
| insist upon Mlramon giving a guarantee that nc
extreme personal punishment should be inflicted
upon British subjects without each case being first
laid before Her Majesty's Legation. They Stated
themselves aware of the magnitude of the demand
but that they could see no other means of safety
In return, Mr.. Otway told them that he would MOI
| give any serious attention to their narrative, be
cause he had strong motives to believe that many
of the circumstances were exaggerated-the person
represented English physician being, for in
stance, an American, that the Government would
submit to the humiliation of having their sentences
revised by foreign legation, that without any such
provision the blood of an innocent Englishmar
would always be avenged by his country, and tha
for the future he would advise them to remain
tranquil and to abstain from calling in question thu
conduct of Her Majesty's Government. He alst
added flourish that he had been thirty years il
the diplomatic service, and would net "permit an,
censures upon acts of which the Government he
represents is the sole udge-that such acts are not
even to be called in question, and that in address
ing him the memoralists had committed a grea
offence, which he felt bound to visit with "sever
comment" Of course the result of this was t,
create great increase of indignation and anxiety
since it would naturally be felt that the assurance
to English subjects that their Government will al
ways avenge their murder was less comforting thai
Mr.. Otway appeared to suppose to those whose OBJ
ject in addressing him had been to prevent the ne
cessity of their Government being called upon tt
afford them that posthumous assistance.