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THE QUEENS REPLY
IS COMMUNICATED TO MRS. JEFFEf7-
SON DAVIS

BY Minister Delome Courts Gus ana Grs.,
oious-Miss CIsneros to Have Considers.
tioa--D CLONE Says there's Lying.
In response to an appeal csbled to.
the queen of Spain BY Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and other notable American women.
urging clemency for the young girl,
Evangeline Ccssio Cisneros, incarce-;
rated at Rabana by the Spanish milf
tary authorities, and who it was re-
ported 10 be exiled to the penal colo;
ny at Ceuta, Africa, the resident Span
ish minister, Dupuy de LONE, has adj.
dressed the following letters to Mrs.
Davis, giving the official Spanish ver-t
son Of the arrest OF the young Cuban.
and toe alleged reasons for her leten-s
ton snd proposed trial:
Lenox, Mass, Aug. "a. s
To- Mrs. Varinna Jeffsrson Davis,
Narragansett Pier, r. I.
Dsar Madam-Don Juan Du Bos0,;
first secretary of the royal Spanish
le aLiop, who went to see you in my.
name, Las reported to me the conver.
sstlor he has had the honor of having
will you Saturday last.
l have not failed to convey to her
ma jesty, the queen, through her min
lister of state, the Duke of Tetaun,
that you had really telegraphed to her
majesty, and I have also supported
the noble words you have expressed
in your conversation.
Mr.. Du Boso told you that when
your cablegram was received by the
queen, the Spanish government had
no knowledge of the arrest of Miu
Evangeline Cossio Cisneros, and also
her majesty had given orders as soon
as it was received to report to her the
merits OF the case, and had been
pleased TO comm and me to inform
you, if your message was true, that
she had considered favorably and with
all the regard due to a lady so worthy
of respect as you are. s.
The information received from Gu.
ba by the Spanish government and
laid before her MAJESTY and that has
been transmitted to me by cable,
shows, in my opinion, that q shame
less conspiration to promote the inter
ests of one or more sensational papers
is at the bottom OF the romance that
has touched your good heart.
The facts show that Miss Evange-
line Cossio Cisneros lured to her house
the military commander of the Isle OF
Pines, and had men concealed in, it
who tried to assassinate him, in con-
nection with an uprising of the pris-
oners in the island. For that ofense,
far from being condemned and being
ready to be transported to q penal set.
tlement in Africa, she has not yet
been tried; the public prosecutor haS
not yet presented the case for the gov.
ernment; he has not yet, as is requis-;
ite of our law, asked q sentence to be-
imposed on her, and the case is not
yet ready to be fully disposed OF.
These facts are very easy to prove.
The American consul general, any Of,
the foreign consuls in Cuba, willing
to get information can convince them
selves of the truth and could have
been applied to by the papers which
have started this sensation, If they
had really been prompted by q senti.
ment of humanity instead of having
be On prompted by the desire of in.
creasing their circulation by their
usual slanderous methods. Is
The absolute falsehoods of the preas
publications, in relation to concrete
facts related with the case, is not fa.
vorable, certainly, to the exactitude
of the considerations with which the
innocence of the accused pretends to
be proved.
l have the honor Of giving you the
above information by order OF her
majesty, and to inform you by her
special command that she is well and
favorably disposed to respond to your
earnest plea and I am instructed to
add that as the case stands, and be-
fore the trial has been completed and
a sentence imposed, she is not allow
ed to interfere, but that instructions
have been communicated to the gov
ernor general of Cuba to bring 8
speedy trial, and to grant to Miss
Cisneros all possible consideration. I
am madam, very respectfully yours.
Enrique DuPuy de LONE.