New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-05
OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE MExE-
CAN INVASION.

CAN INvASION.
The number and magnitude of the official
documents relating to the Mexican invasion,
which have just been issued from the State
Department, would be sufficiently appalling to
repel any attempt at examination of their con-
tents by those who have not followed the story
as to its main points with considerable preci-
sion. The documents only cease to appear
formidable when one knows how much is writ.
ten either to cover up the weakness Of dipo-
matte agents, or to magnify the labors which
they assume to perform.
The points in the documents before US which
seem most deserving of notice at this late
stage of the invasion-when England and Spain
have been compelled, in Difference to their own
sense of selfrespect, and to the judgment OF
the world, to retire from the scene Of the
inva.ion-are those which relate to the open
ing of the quarrel by the Minister of France.
In looking closely into this portion of the busi-
ness, we are painfully impressed with the
suspicion that quarrel was-abOve all things
desired by France. or that her representa-
tive was singularly under the influence Of Sir
Charles Lennox Wyke, as indeed our OWL
Minister Judging from the certificates offered
in his behalf by Sir Charles, appears also to
have been.
1t was on the 10Th Of July last that Sir
Charles Wyke opened the ball by addressing to
the Mexican Foreign Minister note, i'll which
he says the first announcement he had of the
suspension of tie Conventions for the payment
of foreign claims was by means of printed
bandbil hawlcd through the principal thor
ouphfares of the Mexican capital. Sir Charles,
however, affects to believe that the handful
may have been spurious, as in IN interview
the same day with the Mexican Minister the
subject had not been alluded to by the latter
in any manner whatever The answer to
this from the Mexican Foreign Office
is considerate, aud in most respects
complete-if we except the discourtesy of al-
lowing the intimation of the suspension Of the
Conventions TO be communicated first to the
English Embassy through such irregular sources
ar those of which Sir Charles Wyke complains.
The justification which Senior ZamacOria, the
Mexican Minister. offers for temporary sus-
pension of the payments Of the interest on the
foreign debt is net such as Government IN
tent upon cheating would put forward, but is
the simple plea which debtor, placed in ''hii-
Guilty beyond his immediate power to over
come, would naturally urge.
Turn we, however, to the approach NJ SalSny
makes to the subject on tho following day
(the Goth of July). Here we shall find at
once the evidence either of a mentor in the
person Of the English Embassdor, or pre-
advised pleader specially retained in the
interest of the Jecker Company OF French
speculators. In whichever OF these characters
we regard n. de Saligny, be appears in no
very agreeable light. Although he had kept
the Mexican Foreign Minister waiting The
previous day, for considerable time, and
ultimately was guilty of the unpardonable
rudeness Of denying him audience. he addresses
him the note 10 which We have referred, IN
terms which in the private intercourse OF life
ono gentleman would hardly dare to employ
toward another. Let US, in drawing the at
tcntion of our readers 10 this-the opening
note Of the quarrel by France-recall
the fact that, apart from the swlndling
business Of the Jecker Company the
amount Of the debt acknowledged as due to
France on the Goth Of July last was the paltry
sum of $780, 900. Let US also recall the fact
that France had no complaint to make Us had
England, of robbery Of the Embassy, and OF
repeated outrages on her subjects. Yet NJ. dc
Saligny, in addressing the representative Of oil
Independent and friendly Power, without pre-
yious remOnstrance advances thus to the SUBJ
jcct Of tho suspension of the Convention for
Foreign Payments: 81 would have thought
that was doing injustice to your Government
BY believing it capable of acting thus, disre.
gardiDg its most sacred obligations in regard
to the lawful property Of another, and taking
part in an attempt as audacious as insensate
upon the rights and dignity Of France" This
audacous AID inSensate attack was the simple
and very natural-altbough northumberland
luton passed by the Mexican Congress, asking
time to meet it's claims. Thus again NJ. dc
SaligDy proceeds to lecture the Mexican
Foreign Minister, TO whom he had
but few hours before denied an
audience. "The difficulties under which
the Government succumbs are only the
inevitable result, the forced and toreseen conse-
quence of unheard of waste, of plander and
prcdigaiity without name, Of unbrided disorder,
of abuses without example, Of which since ito
accession il giyes a sad spectacle. To permit