The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-05-20

mudez de Castro VAS the opinion of Mr. Vale RestIa
informed thereof serious that he did not hesitate in
taxing step excusable only from the gravity OF the cir
clmstances which was to send his own Secretary to
Lima that he might inform the government mnuely Of
q that was taking place in Madrid and ask for new ~
straelons As might be presumed the amGuIes , grew
demands that Mr. Vale Riestra adopted the plan OF
absenting himself rom Madrid in order to give time for
the arrival Of the instructions he had asked
need say no more on this point, for believe what
has been stated will suice TO show that me Peruvian
government has not acted lightly nor MADE charges not
sustained by authentic documents
In the question relative TO the debt Mr. Bcrmudez de
Castro enters long dissertations for the purpose OF
maknc clear the justice and moderation with which he
had acted Mr. Llorente read paragraph from the
manifest IN which the demands of the Spanish govern
| ment were repeated The speaker believed that said
paragraph extract from some despatch of
that il was nothing but extnal reproduction Of an
article from the counter draft Of treaty presented
by Minister of state. page y of the colecton).
Mr. Vale Restra referred particularly and
y to the same in the note addressed by him on the 9th
OF August Mr. Bernudez de Castro page 84 dwelling
upon The latitude which the Spanish negoaor desired
give TO certain phrases, from which, still later would
calling attention TO the studied omission OF the mention
of any term within which claims should be presented
de Gastra in I on me h OF
Vale Ricsra as to the main question; he consequently
accepted them Just as they were made in the note of th
August could he fail TO admit them they
found IN the counter draft prepared by the Minister Of
The extraordinary eageness of Mr. Bermudez de Gas.
ro deduce from the fifth article OF the treaty of the
9th January an obligation on the part OF Mr. Vale Ries
subscribe the demands of the Spanish govern
ment tho denupcaory terms, full of threatening
gance used in his verbal conferences and in his written
communications, are without doubt, very far from the
moderation and circumspecton of which he boasts in
his speech, and that The Spanish government
very profoundly convinced Of the justice of its pre-
tensions when 1t did not even wish to give TO be
| consulted thereupon.
The two notes Of Mr. Bermudez de Castro above re.
ferred TO merit particular attention In them, his
speech, the force of his argument based upon the
obligation which, according to him, rested upon the
A In 70
ferring to the debt Mr. Vale Riestra agreed TO this
but he denied that this clause ought to be what the
Spanish negoator proposed. Mr. Vale Riesra examined
the real bearing OF the question: while Mr. Bermudez de
Castro adhered TO the question: of FORM to prove there
from the failure on the part OF the Peruvian negoator
to carry the treaty OF the 9th of January There is
other Specification all the reasonmgs presented by
Nh Bermudez de Castro, for the purpose Of demonsirat
ing that various nations in America had agreed with
SPAN upon certain rules for the recognition of their debt
And IL is less surprising that the treaty with Chile
which had been designated in the first place, and by
name as the one TO be followed in making the treaty
with Peru should have been although indirectly rejected
repealed occasions by the Spanish Minister, who
alleged that no mention of the adjustment of the debt
was made therein because it had been recognized and
qudated prior TO the celebration OF the treaty, when in
fact in said treaty there were three articles relative to
that matter, remarked by Mr. Vale Restra his note
OF 9th of August to the Minister Of State quote the
language Of Mr. Vale Restra upon that point which is
all the worthy OF being repeated il is found not
in despatch addressed to his own government but in
a note to the Span sh Minister of State tpage SOY
"a simple comparison of what is proposed to Peru in
to by the other republics reveals that all that is most
onerous IN each of all the other Spanish American
treaties has been included in the ministerial proposition
In the the honorable minister expressed the
opinion, and his proposition proves it. that he could
select the compacts made by Spain with all the
other American nations whatever he might deem
conven ent interpreting thus the fourth article Of the
preliminary treaty wherein Peru agrees to enter INTO
And this of the points Of divergence not only be-
cause according to the rules Of just Interpretation it Is
impossible that the unavorabe clauses hich form
| true exception to what was covenanted by nearly all
| the republics) should be selected but also, and
lilo ADD bv
name being Chile the treaty with her is the one to which
that negotiated with Peru should bear the closest SINH
preliminary treaty For this reason his Excellency
serts that he invited the undersigned to select any
that with Chile that his Exceency made him note that
said republic had spontaneously adopted her law Of in
Which WAS Vas no, the with aa PERM that for
Grafton in her treaty Of friendship, and that
wss s ,Ssasa IL
bases for ihe liquidation and acknowledgement Of the
debt should be fixed in the treaty Of friendship The
are that the honorable Minister proposed the
treaty with Bolivia; that the undersigned named the
one With Chile and that his Excclency said he would
accept IT, provided Of the articles Of the prelim
nary treaty relative to the debt were suppressed The
undersigned naturally replied that could not be sup
Mr. Vale Riesa had already before this reminded the
Minister Of State that At their rst interview Mr. Bermu
| dez de Castro appealed TO the Peruvian law OF 18th
August 1881 but that their last interview his Excel
ency manifested that he had nothing to do with the
|
BY careful perusal of the notes and the speech Of
Mr. Bermudez de Castro the play of words will be easily
Restra to assent to all his pretensons Article fourth
Of the treaty Of 9th January prescribed that the Peru
Wan Penipolentary should negotiate and conclude IN
| commerce, similar to that made with Chile
other American rePub hv criany was very
in the treaty which might be selected there would be
spuaions to the debt and for that purpose article
fifth said that in the treaty TO- be made under such con
dons the has would be established for the liquidation
recognition and payment of sums due by Peru TO Span
ish subjects. follows from this, as logical conse
| qncnce, that the treaty which TO be negotiated
should be similar to the one celebrated with chile or
other American republic only In the part relative
to peace friendship commerce and navigation; but 1t
might diner from n everything concerning the debt
offered objections to the adoption Of the treaty with
Chile; but deducng therefrom perfectly illogical con-
seq enee he claimed that in order 70 establish sad bases
various accounts, would remain against Peru, there
should be adopted as a rule and guide what what
| Rica Nicaragua Bolivia and Ecuador. especially
Bolivia whose situation analogous to that Of Peru
two tpuaons OF articles fourth and nth should have
the meaning which Mr. Bermudez de Castro by blending
that both should have been embraced sole article,
and that the one referring to the debt should have pre-
taken taken Jas a modol By skiifu play of words il
sought confound all this; hut the attempt was no pal
ns no 10
Moreover what article nth. Of january rs stipulated
that the treaty the bases for the liquidation,
recognition and payment Of the debt should be estsb
shed something than the bases was contained
draft Of treaty presented by the Minister
Of Stae and putting aside the fnct that the treaty OF
January "a only required that the Peruvian Minister
should receive full powers TO negotiate the new treaty
| although Mr. Bcrmndcz dc Castro claimed that those full
| powers demanded o. complementa requisite, full and
\ ample instructions to acccde to everything and
| 10 definitely conclude the treaty without new
| copsultatl ons IL might still be argued even
upon ground that those full powers only referred
| navies,ion and commerce But / do not wish to give
| this argument more importance than II already has
That which results from the tenor Of the treaty that
ALI the government OF Lima bound itself TO do was TO
accredit representative with full powers, aud, although
IL II presumed that II would also furnish him With in
rtructions these could never been ample the
Minister OF state desired pssmuch was simply i'm
possible beforehand all that would he demanded
| by the Spanish government Mr. Bermud,z de Castro
a. will be by his notes and IN his speech pre-
septed the question IN surprising and unusual manner
ming the fact OF Mr. Vale Rcstras being In
vested with full powers placed him In the orcblc
cessity Of concluding the treaty In which clause re-