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» Tampico that be will make kuown unto hie Neccliency | whieh called our soldiers 0 a glorioas cam, that these important matters being committed ouly to the Supreme legitimate government of the republic, he will be pleased to address his Exeetiency the President, Don Benito Juarez, to whose authority the undersigued is | Bubordinate, who for the same reason canuot iuvtertere in — & reclamation which if made from nation to nation. The consideration which the commander of the naval | forces of ber Catholic Majesty stationed in the waters of ‘Tampico merits from the undersigned, and the desires by whieb he s animated, that his acts shall not be unfavor. eted, or that there should be attributed to ant of consideration for foreigners resident in this | are the only reasons which have moved him to give this reply in @ matter which only belongs to the su authorities of the republic—the only ones that can | fix the indemnity of the loan indicated, in case the interest | accorded should not be deemed sutlicient. i ‘The undersigned protests that he will repel with force any act of hostility against Mexico which be may perceive | from your forces; at the same time he has the pleasure of | conveying to his Excellency the Commander of the naval | forces of her Catholic Majesty, stationed in the waters of | Tampico, the assurances of Lis particular appreciation JUAN JOSE DE LA GARZA. ‘To the Commander on the station of the Naval Forces of | Her Catholic Majesty, in the waters of Tampico, on board Her Majesty's steamer Leon COMMANDER TOPETE TO GOV. GARZA. GovRRNMNENT STATE OF TAMALIIPAS, Srarion oF Tim Naval Forexs ov Hen Maygsty, > Hix Masgery’s StkammR Leon, Nov. 15, 1858. f A doubt having occurred to me in your Excellency’s note, I beg that you will tell me if the import duties to which your Excellency refers ure destined altogether for payment of the forced k r only a part of them. With this object, the Vice Consul of her Catholic Majesty ac- companies the officer who is the bearer of this, in order that he might come to an understanding of your Excelleu- ¢y'Sauswer. God preserve your Excellency many years. JUAN B. TOPETE. To His Excellency the Commander General of the State of Tamaulipas GOVERNOR GARZA TO COMMANDER TOPETE. Govenssteny Svare OF TAMACLIPAS, L Tamrico, Nov. 17, 1858. The undersigned bas the honor to reply to the Com- mander of the naval forces of ber Catholic’ Majesty sta- oned in the waters of Tampico, and to aay that for the payment of the forced loan there bas been set apart by ths government the half of the proceeds of the import duties, with the interest—mentioned in the note which previously passed from this command—of thirty per cent. Of this step 4 will give an earty account to the superior conatitutional goverament of the republic, in order that, if it Lold it to be good, it may approve of it, or provide larger funcs for the more immediate payment of the jendere The vadersigned reiterates to the commander of the naval forces ot her Cathoiic Majesty stationed in the wa- tors of tis port the protestations of his kind consideration, JUAN JOSE DEL. WAN \Forcesof her Catholic Tampico, on board the To the Commander of the Na ety stationed in the waters of steamer Leon. COMMANDER TOPETE TO GOVERNOR GARZA. GovennMeNT STATE OF TAMAULIPAS, SratioN oF THN NAVAL FoRcES oF Hien MUstY, Sreamun Leon, Tampico, Nov. 15, 1858. Io order to be abie to advise the Superior authorities of the Island of Cuba of the result of my cowinission, Iam compelled again to ivtruve upon the attention of your Excellency with this reply to your courteous note of the instant. Thi chants having accepted the Guarantees which you ucy proposes as the ouly aes posible for stiou of the forced loan, T also agroe (0 thet tue ratilleation by his Excelieacy the Captair f the Island of Cuba. Until & re- ceive uew lostructions, | shall consider myself bound wk your seedlency for the fulfilment of what Bas been stipulated; aud T will’ believe myself oniy free the unlooked for case of a nou- at of all the eouditions which are contained Y's jolite note: as well. alo. if, in case 40 other uations, a portion of the means @ of before payment, with prejudice to ‘Spamah rateress Permit me, your Excetlency, to disagree with the quali- fication of “forced negotiauion,”” applied to the loan, be- cause that ie its real name wheu it lad not bees mutually agreed pou by both parties. Neither can I pe without remark that the personal considerations which I have the honor to merit, and the desire that your steps may not be unfavorably interpret attributed to tbe want of consideration for esiding mn this place, have been te on) eanswer which, according to your Ex Devoag aly the supreme authorities of the republ: believe, excellent sir, that your Excellency toand your. Belt moraily compromised to give it, it beiag logical that inasinuct as your Excelleney tad the power to commit the fs injury, 1% was natural that your Excelleucy could also remedy it. A neg part of your Excel- Joncy would bave trremediabiy caused the breaking out Of hosiilities. Desiring to correspoad to the considerations which I have the houor to + ve, 1 wish with all loyalty to show to your Excellency that my instructions dean: direet Me vot to meddle in the miernal ailairs of the country, bet to repel with for fo be possible to me, all insult or lation of the rights of nations, not only against my feilow-citizeus, but against any forcignor that may Claim the protection of the Danner. God preserve your Excellency may 5 JUAN B. ‘To His Excellency the Commandant Gener of Tamaulipas, GOV. GARZA TO COMMANDER TOPETE. GOVERNSINNT OF TKK STATE OF TAMAULIPAS, Tamrico, Nov. 17, 1868. f Tue gned understands by’ the note of this date, of the commander of the naval forces of her Catholic Majesty statioued in the waters of Tampico, that he has accepted, with the consent of the Spanish hante of this place, the guaratice offered tothe lenders for the payment of that which | 10 them, with « reserve for whatever bis E: Captain General of the Island of Cuba may For which reason, and to terminate the principal sub- fect, Uhe uudersigued will not insist upou the exactitude vety of the words a * negotiation’® or ‘forced ither for Lis part—and saving the disposition of Abe supreme constitutional guver Las he to make any objecti he has so loyally and gentlemanly from the superior authorities of the Island of © Bat ag reclamatious between two countries are to be resolved according to the prescriptions of public interna. tional right, the undersigned considers always exact the Principie set forth in his Orst note above, that the authority of the repablic is the only one comp treat and to resolve Uns class of questions; and for this reason Le Lopes he will be absolved for renewing the pro- test be made to repel with force whatever fact of hostitity , ov the part of this station, is committed in contempt 6C these principles The undersigned reiterates the consideration of his par- Lowa appreciation (0 the commander of the naval forces Of her Catholic Majesty stationed in these waters. JUAN JOSE DE LA GARZA. ‘To the Commander of the Naval Forces of her Catholic Majesty in station im the waters of Tampico, on board the steamer Leon. SENOR OCAMPO TO GOVERNOR GARZA. Dev akTMkNt OF Srare, War ann Marine, ? Viena Crvz, Nov. 23, 1858. |) Moet bxcertent Sir—I gave an scooant to bis Excelleacy the President of the repaboe, with the official comm unica. tion of your Paceliewcy of the 17th instant, accompanied with copies Of the communications recently exchaaged between your Excetieney and the Commander of the Spanish sea forces stationed in the waters of Tampico, upon the reimborsing of thé forced loan imposed by your Excelleucy on the merchants of that place, amoug which were rome eubjects of ber Catholic Majesty: and his Excel- lency has been pleased to approve altogether the course which your Excellency has followed in the said communi- Cation, as weil as of the pledge of the half of the product of the duties, deducting the thirty per cent conceded. I renew to your Excellency the expressiou of my par ticular regard OcAMvo # Fxcelleucy the Governor of the State of Tammaul pico. CONCHA DISAPPROVES OF THE Finer AW NT, AND BOW GARZA WAS BROUGHT TO TERMS [Translated for the New York Herat, from the Diario de la Marios of Dee. 11, 1858.) At the same U me that Sener Topete was giving an accovut Of Lue proceeding to the authorities at Habana, Garza_was on bis way by jand to Vera Cru: \- ed to Tainpico from Vera Cruz on the 27tb instant, in the eb mail Steamer. which was also the channel by 1 new instructions were coureyed to the houo- rable chief of ovr naval forces at Tampico. As soon as there tustructious were received, Senor Topete addressed again Seuor La Garga, and informed lim that his Excellency the Governor and Capta'n General did not consider the Offer made as prover Lo be accepted, because the pecuniary restoration by the means proposed was not sufficiently Recured oF guarantec moch less did it correspoud with the peremptory character necessary for satisfaction for the w juries perpetrated ip the exaction of the furced loan. Furthermore, if the Spavish merchants, on whose Debalf those measures had been taken, should express themselves satisfied with the offer made, everybody would Boe instantly that they only expressed themseives as be ing satistied out of fear and lest wey sl to fresh exactions. The question was not merely to pec purtued towards the Spanish merchants in the require nent of the forced loan. Therefore, not metely an imme Giate and complete restoration was not to be dispensed ‘With in euch a case, but also the restoration mast bear the character of being a reparation for insults received. Tt ongbt not, therefore, to have the appearance of being oither a public treaty ‘ora private arrangement made be Awe ral La Garza and the Spanish merchants resid. hug at Ternpree Senor Topete, faithful in his in ceeptance db jot do this without for any tora affairs might take ation, made by the command ed by the immediate pa as We mentioned in & former um required number of our journs feous accord, fired a salute from the guns of the fortress | in honor to our flag, thereby desiring to prove that he | was far from wishing to St, iD any senee Whatever, that whict uot ouly Fight but aiso tho relatio tionat amity demanded isagreeable piece of bus fally convinced that t Spaniard who wi th fisplayed by our chief mi @4 as he was by the worthy comm: Ale Senor La Garza, of hie own sponta | over which Gen, Zuloaga presides. | offered | & Hotitia at Tampico. It is no Secret that while tue Eo Steamer was conveying the last lustructions to Senor , there wae being prepared bere at Havana. aod was all ready Mr embarkation, @ splendid bres te Of from three to four thousand mon, which was & have comprined two battalions of rilemen, | two picked companies of the ‘ona reg ments & battery of field and another of mountain artillery (ally furnithed and equips aud a company of .cagineer Aa many as two Weegee thousand rations, b Other requisites for war, were prepared Ombarked. We voed oot say with what . would hace proceeded on this expedition, for toy | hat ve Uonor agpur national fag was at stakr—y sew Cimant wie w Foils to igdame the patriouem of our | u vove bower » ow that the prio! NEW YORK HERALD, THUR paign is honor ably removed, our brave men will be among the first to unite with us lu congratulations upou (the peaceful term: vation of the affair at Tampico. By it we obtain are newed proof that the republic of Mexico, without auy dis- tinction of parties, entertains a proper respect for Spain, and thai she is animated by a desire for peace aud for | frigadly relations with us. ‘This we may also perceive from the steps taken by the government at the capital, | PROBABLE RESUMPTION OF DIPLOMATIC | RELATIONS BETWEEN SPAIN AND MEX [Correspondence of Fi Diario de la Marina, of Havaaa } | Mexioo, Dec. 2, 1853 I should to-day write to you with reac satistacton, if the distracting aspect which the country presents did not fill all of us every day with greater fears. Neverthoiess, the fact I am abdut to communicate to you—and of which, from the late moment at which I am writing, you wil hardly receive notice by any other chann ‘of such a character that it well deserves to forget tor a time tho tuation of the country 19 order to occupy myself exclusively with it; for itis the question of a step taken by this goverament, in consequence of which we may hope that the diplomatic relauious between Spain and this republic will soon be renewed. You know that the differences or motives which urged on the government — Majesty to break with this coun- try at the time tue administration of Senor Comonfort proceeded directly from the — assassi- nations perpetrated upon Spaniards living in the haciendas of Sap Vicente and Chiconcuaque, as aiso from the non-fulfilment of the solemn treaty which the convention entered into in 1851 for the pay- meut of the credits of our fellow citizens, was converted tm 1858, or rather, to say from ignoring the sacred obligation imposed by that treaty, unchangeable without the consent of the two contracttmg parties, but which the government that sprang up from the revoiution of Ayutla thought to have a right to suspend, under the pretext of it revision being necessary, without having previously obtained the consent of the government of the Queen. Therefore the motives were of the gravest character; for while the first gave impunity to the most horrible crimes, the second involved the most scandalous viviation of the elementary principles of international law; and this grave character Was auginented by the entire regardlessness for toleration which the government of Spain had shown for Mexico, anxious not to increase the difficulties against which its government had to struggle sand which was met by the blackest ingratitude. ‘The pressure under which the administration of Comoa fort was laboring, ceaselessly persecuted by the so-called conservatives, whose continual pronunciamientos ren- dered it, even after victory, every day weaker, and perhaps still more embarrassed by the so-called liberals of the Assembly, who, not less indefatigable, did not leave ita momeut of repose, showing themselves ever jealous ‘and uncompromising in regard to the situation created by the first revolutionary administration inherited by Comon- fort. That very uvhappy situation was, doubtiess, the chief cause that Comontort himself disappeared from the scene, without having im a satisfactory mauner settled the duhiculties; for tis but just to say that both his personal character and the moderation of his principles impelled him to such au arrangement. ‘Therefore it was uatural that the men of the political faction or party who style themselves conservatives, and who always manifested thew sympathies with Spain, once in possession of the power should not prove hostile to a settlement for which General Almonte had re ceived ipstructions, which, without doubt, would have brought about the desired result of circumstances, too long to be related, amongst which was a serious indis- Liou of the same General, had not preveuted it. There Fare thie government, wishing to pui at once an ead to the situation which Spain could not consent to see proionged, should she be obliged even to resort to the pawful means of open hostilities, for which she was preparing, address. ed, under the date of yesterday , to the Minister of France, charged with the protection of Spanish subjects in this re public, a note, which, according to good information, I be- lieve to be decisive as to its object. Tam informed that in this note Senor Castillo y Lanzas after protesting the desires of his government, which have been expressed whenever occasion permitted, and after enumerating the obstacles which, frou the very firat days of its organization, opposed themselves to settlivg in a satisfactory way ‘the pending differences, declares that of those” duferences only oue—that — rela- ting to the execution of the treaty of 1853— is teft wnsetaled; for the punishment inflicted on the perpetrators of the crimes at Cuernavaca put an end to ‘the question which arose therefrom, and, although those committed in the Minera! de Sao Dumas in Dur: are stilt unpunished, his government solemnly protests that it ‘will spare no means to arrive at this end from the moment order shal! have been re-established in that department, to-day withdrawn from its obedience. AS to the treaty, Senor Castillo y Lanzas likewise pro- tests that his government ts disposed immediately to exe cute it; so that if some pomts of a secondary order are Stil! left to De settied, this is not to be an obstacle to the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, the more go as by this means al! matters may promptiy and easily be ad- justed, thus removing even the siightest ground for aay reasonable misunderstanding Aud as, accordimgto my information concerning the indemuities claimed by the victims of Cuernavaca—for these aud others of this ustere are alluded to as the secondary questions whose settlement will be easy as soon as diplomatic relations shall Lave Veen re established—ther> ig uo doubt that the note just referred to by me will, in a short tite, put av end to the deplorable questious which threatened to lead to snch a painful resvit as would bo war between two couutries destined by their nature to live im close friendship. You wil! not say that im this case I have not kept my word by writing im time, the more 60a* 1 Kuow that you have here very good correspondents. I will only say a few words more The casture of Guadalajara was a terri- die biow for this government, and t » on account jeueral Bian been suecorod in tine, would have Lats, to . aad jon Marquez to reconquer i hoped that he may attan his he newspapers announce that on the 23d ult. he was still in San Luis However, Vera Cruz is the pont whente the situation might receive some guarantees of a favorable turn, and rom that quarter news is Scarce. A telegraphic despatch addressed to this government by General Covos (rom Cor- wonder date of 28th uit., auuounced that Alvarado, er with its garrison, bad prougunced, but this news bas not yet been confirmed. LATER FROM NORTHERN MEXICO. (From the New Orleans Picayune, Doe 16.) wanee, from Brazos Santiago, via Ind) ; arrived last night he purser inforins us Uuat the latest news from Vera and Tampico received at Matamoras was to the 29th ult.—not as Inte a8 we Lave received. General Vidaurr), we learn, was at last accounts ac. tively engaged at Mouterey in raising a new army t take his stand against the Zaloags government. lutelligence had beeu received at Matamoros that a Mr. Glenn, an American citizen, on his way from. the interior, was shot in the vieiity of Saltillo. The particalars of the aiair had not fully appeared, but it was looked upon as a moet brutal murder. Geveral Vidaurri, who is Governor of Saitilio, tt is represented, manifested every diepo- sition to probe the matter to the bottom, aud to mete out Justice to the perpetrators. The only paper we lave received is the Browusvilie Flag, of the Ist inst.. an all it contains in the shape of news from the Mexvcan side of the Ro Grande is the fol towing — A letter from Monterey states that Genera! Vidaur again endeavoring to “raise the wind,” ant that he already organized a force of $00 men to sally upon San Luis, which is only garrisoned at present by about $90 carte, who, had be laughed at the enemy. Muramon left here for Bax gather there a but, a'thor men The same writer throughout the St Mata has returned President Juarex our goverum road to be built by the latter from New Mexico throngh Chihmahwa, &e., for which grant our goverument will give to that of ‘Mexico w remuneration of five millions of dollars The English and Montgomery Affatr. CARD PROM MR. BNGLISE. My attention has been called in the Washington paper: Hou. Wm. Montgor nt oment inserted who the parties are who made the statement, as it carries on its (ace conclusive evidence of ite partial and ex parte character. That differeut ver sions of such an aifair should exist might be expected, and that the part I took in it should be grossiy misrepresented Oceasions me no surprise whatever T shal) not bunt up counter statements from hackmen or others, neither shall I engage iv newspaper controversies invoke the protection of the law or the inter of the police. T neither se have sought, any aienity with Mr. Montgomery—t *lall avoul none. ‘ben I met Lim on Saturday I was not aware, nor am I yet, that {bad by word or deed given him auy cause for offence; and when ia friendly recognit on I extended tim my hand, Paddre-ed him in terms courteous, polite and geatiomaniy. Thix friendiy salotation was met in a rode and jpealting manner, which { resented, on the instant, in the most effective way then in my power. The blow as quick as it Could reach the object after tue insult was given. For this 1 was summoned to court upon the affidavit of Mr. Montgomery, and this is whole transaction in a nutshell. The le of the ren. contre, or Which got the best of ft, of whether the bleme rests upon ove, both or neither, are matte at whiea I shall not bandy words. On iy part the collision was wholly unpremeditated and without malice—an impulse based "pon an uuexpected and unprovoked indigmity WILLIAM Ho ENGLISIL ‘Zi, 1968. THE DOCTORS’ CARD, Wasassarox, Dec. 21, 1858 We, the undersigned, having been called upon as phyal- at the instance and Decent #, professionally to attend the Hon. Wm. Montgomery, after the outre between him and Hon. Wm. bag lish, do hereby certify tant we made a fll examination the oo jon oo Mr. Montgomery's tv a hw tation in declaring that the marks inonatestibly that the blow was struck by aome person stand: Tuere was 00 bru ie or tark io [rout wh WY. HUDBON, JOHN KELLEY United States Cirentt Court. Before Hon. Judge Ingersoll (eo, 22.—The Graad Jury brought tw bills of indictment in the following eases —The Unite! States ve. Hoary Reed for stealing letters from the Post Uihco as Meeding for Martin V. Shears for coun #, Semel Jonyes aad Kon feiting The latter partes « iyo, charged with hav ed alvout $60,000 of money Willtamsburg A Dowarox Veer —The mem South Third street M their raspectad pastor him: ing conanter La donation viet on W evening. The isaies wore \dafatigairie in the to contribute to the combrt of thou guests, wie ia Sarge numbers, and the wtiost vmimamnit; feeling preva Fupporelt tues 1 a Will be prow: & Mr & m7 ‘ do cred:l to the cougregat on SDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1855. “The Erenes Govermnent, Liberia and the African Slave Trade. The Regina Coli Affair—Vindication of the Laberian Gocerament--Cerweapermense ben tween Hon, J, Hammond and J. H. B. Las trobe, Esq. {From the Baltimore American.) ‘MR. LATROB® TO SENATOR HAMMOND. Baitmoas, Nov. 9, 1808. How, Jas. &. HamMonn:— Sin—lo the New York Hararo of November 6 I find a report of a speech delivered by you at Barnwell Court House, on the 20th ultimo, in which there occurs the fol lowing passage:— France, leas sensitive, having no Exeter Hall, embracing the same scheme, resorts) Africs wud openly inakes purchases— for 40 they may be called, from slave eaichers—nay ! she buys trom the Preaident of Liberia, the far famed settiement of our ‘own Colowization Society-—buvs the eolonisia, our own emanci pated alaves, who, sie) ‘k Of freedom, preter avy form of slavery, and in their desperation do not hesitate to make their pious pa trons in Uuas countey the laughing stock of the world. Thave not the pleasure of your persona! acquaintance, but your distinguished reputation is well known to me. Even were it otherwise, the rare ability aud unquestion- able patriotism of the speech referred to would be alone sufficient to give weight to its author's words, and to make it important to know from himself the facts which have been supposed to warrant the charge against the President of Liberia—of selling to the French “our owa emancipated Slaves, who, sick of freedom, prefer any form of slavery ,’’ &e The settlement of the Colonization Society, now recog- nized as an independent goverument by many of the fead- ing nations of tho world, owes its existerce to the exer tions and covtributions of tbe benevolent and patriotic throughout the country. That it shouid be desecrated by such acts as you charge, without qualification or question, upon its President, most be a matter of profound regret to the promoters of the colonization scheme. But that rou could have made such a charge without accurate in- formation from reliable and unbiassed sources is not for moment beiteved. You are, therefore, most respect- fully solicited to state, at your earliest convemtence, the facts in this coonection that may be in your possession, and the names of the parties, if entirely proper to be communicated, from whom you have obtained them. While the reputation of Liberia might suffer but little from vague charges, with no better endorsement than paragraphs from anonymous writers for the press, yet When the gravest allegations, tmputing what, iC true, should cover the perpetrators with public infamy, re- ceive the sanction, sir, of such a name as yours, ‘it ill becomes the parties interested, or their frieads, to re main silent; avd in appealing to you for the information that is now requested, it is with the fuuest contidence tuat yoo will at once appreciate the reasonableness of the réquest, and with the full assurance, aiao, tuat you will be amonz the first to rejoice suontd it so turn out in the complete exoneration of the individual whom the ge Vial bas been made so grievously affects JOUN H. B. LATROBE, President American Colonization Society. SENATOR HAMMOND TO SR. LATIONS, Repcurrs, 8. C., Nov. 47, 1858 Sin—{ bave received your kctter demanding to kuow on what grounds { Lad asserted that the colonists of Liberia bad been purchased (Virtaaify) by the Freach, with the counivance (also parchased) of the President Haring neither the time nor inchvation to enter into a corres: pondence with the colonization employes or officers, it is fortunate for me that by the last mail I received the Fiinburg Kevin for Uctober, 1888. In that is an article to whieh I refer you, It quotes the authorities 1 bad— perhaps not quite alt, but enough—-wnd T beg you will turn your arrows on that Review as a foe more worthy of your stee! than I am. J. H. HAMMOND. J. A. B. Laveoas, Psq., President, &., &e. MM. LATROBE TO FENATOR BARON Baitimoxe, Dec. 10, 1858. How. Jauys 1. Hammoxp:— Sin—I have duly received your letter of the 27th ult., and my first impulse is to express my surprise at the tone of your repiy toa communication, couched, not in the language of demand, but of solicitation. You had charged, without qualification or reference to authority , on infamous crime on the President of Liberia. Assuming, therelore, that you had indisputabic proof, which your sense oi justice would induce you gladly ‘sven to communicate, and assuming also that a respectful request for the sources of your information would, at least, be courteous- ly responded to, I wrote to you according!y. How far T am justified in expressing ‘surprise at the tone of your reply, aud how far it was becoming under the circum- stances, I jeave without further comment to those who mar read the made: Tae matter really in hand ix of far mor manner that either of us may choos 2tucation to the other, You refer nm Edtnburg Review, as quoting “t perhaps uot qu:te all, but enoogh.”* ‘The article in the Review, eutitied “Slavery in 1858 is a studied attack apou the Cutted States, and particular ly tue South, ia which what purports tobe a history of colonization is given tn much detail. Of the reliance to be placed upon its statements, some opinion may be form- ed from one of them. Tis aleged that Liberia is a re- authoritics you bad— ceptacle for slaves sent from the South, to keep up the price of cotton by seeping down the means of pro- ducing it “Triffing as the shipments of negroes to Liberia alwa: are, bays the reviewer, “the largest deportations take hat being the time when the Libe- "@ when Cotton is lowest, tation is weeded of th ast Valuable slave for Southern account etl & relicd upon as * why" (page 283)—tuis case, according to the reviewers, affording “glimpses of a , h American laters plilautiropically deport negroes to Likeria, and French planters beue roes from ‘Libe- ra The inedable absurd. 4 cement is 6.f- ficient both to discredit the author's ¢ and to cast a doubt upon the accuracy of bis quotations. He makes Liberia the broker between tue freuch Emperor and the cotton planters. Could it have been imagined, sir, that you have no er foundation for your charge than is to be found in the article you refer to, there would have been no occa- ‘sion to address you before repiying to so much of your apeeeh at Barywel! Court House as affects the President of Liberia. The Review says:— ‘The Emperor of the French, having acontract with Regis & Company for carrying free wegroes to the French colonies, ire a number of laborers (rom & notorious alave dealer. veship must clear from Monrovia, becanse there waa no other port that would serve, aad the Liberian lawa—the ground of ‘aillanes wits Ragiaed and ther Powers prohibit the ex portation of emigranta without passports. First the French agents were found employing menaces to induce President oR to.gren a geveral hey bad frst o! by parchase. ‘Conlis the next Mastratios of the case ber La: 8 tbe ns Thouse of Lords, Captain Simon hay bury tn the been urged tp Sil his vessel from that part of ‘te consi —a previously Poe! withia the Libectan ie: vesenaicn pe They Captain, who was on sbore at the bot at lengib delivered it to the lritiab Consul, Fiiope to take charge of the Regina Colt. Captain Simon proteste! against any claim ov account of his ship, and a French wan of-war appeared oa the ecene to-carry ber of. The writer then continues: — Our revders will 20% be surprised after what we have sh of the character oF Liberia at the Freneh eoass, that these « devosed native Africans bot free Amer aie ig Partiament Was to make ont whether ( from up the © They were Amerien 8 the fd. not appareatiy come fom Moe Helghborhood.. Gan we ot salve the di Meaty? an it be uecenssry 0 direct a the glimpses we new to be obtaining of the «: m by whi Ane ‘lena ers philanthropleally deport uegres to Liberia, &e., 4c. ay noted ment of the reviewer is that the Southern to Liberia iu the process of weeding the plan men scarred. Korn ont aud expatristed”*=— op the rivers, and when far enoagh off sot to are sent * uc mmode the people on the coast, are dropped into the feft to shift for thomeeives.’’ d to re-appear as native Lute, then sup strong an They are voluntary emigrants,” to seize a ship, murder the crew, aud ene nto the interior to regain that freedom Of which, were we to receive you as authority, sir, they had become «o “sick as to prefer any sort of slavery.” With the addition of the surgeon's statement, that 200 out of 2T1,of the emigrants could read, and the further statement that the ‘President and other authorities sanc- tioued the scheme and received the money,” J have'given, vertatim. everything in this counection, bearing upon Lt beri and its avtuorities, collectively or individually, that is to be found in the Review, in the shape either of quo tation or reference to documents. The argument of the reviewer I otmit; for, not being known to you when you made your charge, it could, of course, have had no influ. ence Gpon you Now, whatever proof this may be of complicity be- tween ‘France and Liberia in the proceedings of the for ner, it is very certain that it does not juatify the etate: ment that “France buys from esident of Liberia our colonists, our own emancipated slavee,”’ &e., Indeed, the writer in the hitaself would seem to exoucrate the President from any perronal responsibility when he speaks of “the French agents” employing “me- haces” to induce him to grant a general passport “to cor tara cegroes that had been obtained by purchase." It would appear, sir, that this defect of proof had im preseed yourself, for in your letter of the 27th alt. you morify ver widerably the charge, as you originally made it. You begin by saying— T have receivet your letter demand 19 kaow on what grou = uhae nanethed that the colon ot Liberia had been Dorebse:t thally) by the French. with the con: liased) of the Presklent. This Wasa mistake. I made n h demand; for you, to my knowledge, had made no seeh assertion. Your speech at Barnwell Court House was a plain state ment, smooth and flowing—not of an inference which you drew, and about which others might differ with you—but of a fart, which you could not bave expressed in stronger terns had it failen within your personal knowledge. Your words, after speaking of purchases made by France from “slave catchers,” are these — nya from the Presitent of Liberia, the far famed wr own Colonization Roctaly , buy’ the cob our own emancipated saves, who, Rick of freed form of slavery. ver read your speech, noticed your charge, and received your words as authority, mmuat have believed thereafter that, recreant to duty apd false to all honorable impulses, the President of the colony—aow republiom founded by the phiantiropic and the charitable of the United States, as a home for the free people of color aud emanc pated aiaves, bad, for sordid gain, made sale of those who had been committed t his care. Nor was the crime palliated by the gross improbability with which you connected itethat, “sick of freatom,” the colonusts id been dhe willing participators in the wrong that bad pe people feouthward when a vourd, aut ved the slander avd ¢ ater of & cent fa French o9 is toe President of the 6 ants oo " maine: ir that these pew you rej irohaece aa: U ple bave the two themscives established. Ia point of accuracy stories are Regarding the modification of (hore oT gone marek at Barnwell Court House as a virtual abandonment of it in the form in which it was originally m de, it only remains to notice the “connivance—also pure: sed’'—which you allege in your letter of the 27th, I be said that Our reference to the quotations of th burg Review log, 10 point of fact, but a reference to the French state- ment, your vindication became necessarily depeadent upon the truthfulness of the latter, and that this, as was required for the sake of the actors in the transaction— peremptorily denying a purchase and insisting that the pees on board were voluntary emigraats—there could ve been no such connivance as you charge, for want of @ sale to be counived at. But I prefer, in this connection, to go somewhat at length into the matter of the Regina Coli, satisfied that the result will be the exoueration of the people, the government and every individual in office, from the slightest census. I begin by admitting if Captain Simon was urged to obtain what emigrants be wanted within the jurisdiction of Liberia, and if he paid beforehand for the privilege of doing so, theu France and Liberia were accomplices im an attempt to revive, practically, the slave trade. The fullest account that Lhave beea able to procure of the details of the transaction, as it affects the authorities of Liberia, is the official report of the Minister of the French Marine to the Minister of Heceign Aiales aated June 18, 1858, published at length in the Courier des Ktats Unis, of July 17. From this it appears that on the 28th of October, 1867, the Regina Copii arrived at Cape Mount, where, it is alleged, the native chief urged the captain to rocure bis emigrants, and whence the two proceeded to jonrovia to arrange the preliminaries of the aftair. Here, the approval by the Presideut of Captain Simon's plan was so conclusive that it determined this officer to acquit him- self of his mission exclusively in the territory of the re public; wherenpon he hastened to pay into the hands of the authorities of the place (autoruis locales) the sum of 1,564 piastres as passport duty for 400 free laborers, which were to be procured for nim within forty days. The coliec- tor of them then proceeded with great ease, under the eye (surveillance) of the authorities of Liberia aud of ihe agent the French government. The rest of the statement corresponds, in the main, with that quoted from the Kdinburg Review. The report of Lieutenant Pointel, chiefof the staff of the naval commander on the station, which is referred to by the Minister of Marine, is not given, neither has it been posaible to procure at this Ume the official report of Dr. Des Brulais, the survivor of the massacre, aud who seems to be the authority for the assertion that the emigrants were Amoricans, and not “debased native Africaus,”’ although the lauguage of the surgeon, as given in the New York Times of July 1, 1958, goes no further than to state that “the free émigrants were embarked with the consent of the Liberian authori- tes, and that (wo huadred were 80 well educated as to be able to subscribe to their indeutures.’” To this statement there is opposed the emphatic contra- diction of President Benson, in a letter to Gerard Ralston, Fsq., Cousul General of Liberia iu London, undor date of Sept. 13, 1858, as follows: You are at liberty to publish as untrue the following atate- ppeared in Kur and other papers:— hiet of Cape Mount accompanied Captan via to atrage for the procurement of emigrants. wat the President of Liberia urged Captain Simon to jocuri bis enugrants within the juriadietion of this ren ublic ‘Third, Thet the President or goverument of Liberia became a party (oa contract (o furnish any emigrants whatever. Foust, That $1,504 had been received by this gorevnnient as passport duty. Marit. ‘That the emigrants were procured under the immedt- ate su:perintendevee or by ocy of this goverument. Sicu Thatavy emigrants were Amertco-Liberiaas, or per 800s of coior from the United States, or their descendants, ‘There is not a particle of truth in any of the above assertions. T cau prove them to be dowaright falachoods by more than hundred living wi aud abundant documentary evidence. ‘The issue being thus distnetiy made up, the prepon- derance of the conflicting testimony must depend upon the circumstances under which it is given, the character, motives apd possible bias of the witnesses, the respective probabilities and the corroborating evidence. Taking the French account first, its apparent improba- bilities are striking; thus:— It is most improbable—the emigrants being supposed to. be Americans—that Captain Simon should have beea urged te take them, when it is well kuowa by the friends and unfriends of colonization that the great want of Liberia for years past has been more emigrants from America, to aid in the developement of her reaources and the building up of her power; just such emigrants as Capt Sinon was looking for—mea competent to assert their freedom by just such conduct as took place on board the Regina Cori, Had the authorities urged him to take the bondmen, “searred, worn out and expatriated,” wandering from “up the’ rivers” dowaward to the sea, he would bave laughed at them. ‘Again, it is most improbable that passport money should have been paid in advanee, when it was uncertain that a single emigrant would be ‘procured—altogether improba- Die indeed in the face of the admission in the quotation of the linturg Review that President Beason had been menaced once ‘betore for refusing to grant a genera! passport fora cargo that had been already purehased— while in the case of the Regina Corli the cargo was still to be obtained. Again, the fact being that there ore not one huadred tale Americans it for labor in the neighborhood of Ca) Mount, where the Regina Coli went to load, makes statement that four buatred were to be procured there, of whom two hundred and seventy-one were already on board when (he massacre took place, improbable in the extreme, It would have becn far easier, avd no more liable to detection to take emigrants on board at Monrovia, where the popriation is comparatively dense. This impro- bility was recoguized in Parliament, as has been al- ready Shown when quoting from the Kerew. Aguin, admitting that the 271 emigrants were Ameri- cans, it is no disparagement to them to gay, looking to their antecedents, that the assertion (iat 200 of them could read, is grossly improbable. But the surgeon himself, only states that “they could subseribe their indentures. Whether these subscriptions were names or marks oaly and whether the subscribers were natives or Americans, conk! so easily be proven by the production of the in dentures, aud their absence, whilst the fact is so interest. arty Who must bave them ta its mprobability of the state ould read, or that they were other than Afri- ans. Again, that 271 colonists—Americans—going on board, of their own accord, would bave risen aad murdered the crew and seized the ship, passes the bounds of reasonable belief. And, again, that a nation, however feeble, the majority of whose people were emancipated shyes, all whose inatincts and impulses muat be opposed to slave ry, who bad goue to Africa to escape from it, should Shifer its government tocountenance, in avy manner or form, or for auy purpose, or on any pretence, a renew al of the slave trade, or any semblance of ‘the slave trade, is not the least of the improbabilities of the French account of the case of the Regina Carli. It is admittcd here, sir, that the suggestion of your speech at Baroweil Court House, which imputes sickness of freedom asa general malady to which the colored man is aulject on the const of Africa or elsewhere, is altogether ignored ‘on this occasion. Such sickness is certainly unknown to our Maryland slaveholders ou the Eastern Shore, or ou the borders of Pennsylvania, and T doubt whether there is any experience ot the Western border slaveholding States that would corroborate your assertion. And finally, that three handred free men, over whom the authorities of Liberia had no ot compulsion, over whom they pretended to exercise none, who, at Mount, were too far from the capital, Monrovia, to within reach of the streugth existing there, should permit themeeives to be sent or sold az laborers to a country whowe language was not their language, and for their ré- turn from whieh they had no security, is quite as ira- probable as any other part of the affair of the Regica Coss In ad-tition to the forezoing List, it may be sald that the report of the French Minister of Marine of iteelf adds to the improbabilities of one of the allegations of the Bilin. burg Review, and which ‘3 to be found repeated in both your speech at Barwell Court House and your leticr of the 27th ultimo. [mean that which relates to the Ameri canism of the emigrants. tatement L refer to is, that it was the urgene: icf th £ indaced Capt. Simon to prov: emigrants at Cape Mount, and that the two went together to Monrovia to arrange ‘the prefiminaries of the aTair.”’ Now it is hardly probable that the uative chief expected to ship colonists, bot most probable that he wanted, or Was willing, to sell is servants after the old slave trade fashion, and went therefore with Simon to Monrovia, ad. mittiog that he wont at ail, to see whether they could not Jointly obviate objections whieh they knew to exist, and ut for which the chiet would have stayet at home and disposed of bis people at tis pleasure. Bat it may fairly be asked, when discussing iva bil) tice what motive had the French authorities tor faleehood? They had S matters turned out. They Were on a nefarious errand, and they knew it, and they had failed: aud ther failure, under the circum stances, had attracted the attention of the civiliged World; and all ¢yet were turned to France, whose character was compromised by them. But for the ab- sence of the captain, with nearly half his crew on shore, the massacre would probably never have taken piace, and France might have gone on replenishing ber colo. nies from the coast, with no Other obstacles than might be interposed by a people too feeble to resist by force zreesions on their sovereignty or on their territory. @ afuir of the Regina Ce waver, was likely to bring 4 public opinion to operate, which not ovea France might be able to disregard. The’ captain of the Regina Cali— the navel officers along with him—the surgeon, too, to some extent, were agents, who had blaudered, It was vital to them to make out a cage, and they were too wise not to know that the cave that would most surely acquit them would be that which, at the same time relievet France from obloqny. And there was but one case that could be made out which Would answer these ends, and that was the case which made Liberia the accomplice of France, which gave to the acts of Simon and hit naval coadjutor the sauction of the Liberian authorities—a sanc tion, the value of which would be infisitely enhanced, if the pute or the Emperor could only be persaaded that they were free Americans, who were bired aa laborers on the Regina Col). Cortaniy, if ever men bad a motive for adopting the course that bas beep pursved, and swearing it through, these were the men Nor cant it be eaid that the Cros of the Legion having been given tothe naval offiver, and a pension of 1,800 [cance to the surgeon by the Emperor, facts dwelt on in the Biininrg Review, pinees the ‘recipients above the reach of suspiciou, and makes their testimony convert the grosely linprobable into the true. Too much de pended upon their being believed to pormit anythtag to ie left undone that mgt add to their credibility. Sir John Crampton is now Minister at St. Petersburg, but fo one dow rts that, when In the United States, he violated ofr laws ane ited his expotsion. So the cross and the pension beste ‘Uy France cannot change the of the condor the catastro;s Tt is but vot t however, th mente and 5 by the vnfrreni of colonization im the € Europe has teeu dealt with, rather than the report the French Vipister of Marine, where thew conduct ts re lated. A close transiation by 6 means justifies the charges that have grown oat of the transretivm, Thue the phrase i<, not that the Pres dent urged the procuring of emigrants im Liberia, but that, on be the plan, he approved it in euch conoluatve terms, it induced the enptait to determine to procure this emi grants in «Now the pian was one atrendy mon. , Aerording to the French report, with the chief of tus has # shown, aad it was this plan, » distance from Mourovia, that proceeded the eurwetitanes of the Therian author ‘ating, a8 might fairly be coutended, with eam wider es, tus © tract from President Benson’s letter of the 13th September: last ‘And here it is the denials of the President, to corroborate them by the testimony of other witnesses, and by circumstances. The tirst charge is that Simon was urged to procure the | emigrants in Liberia. ‘The following correspoudgnce puts this at rest.— Care Mount, Nov. 22, 1857, Your Excrussucy—The object of this letter is to request veritas te cotton tn Laperiatiat ta'to" anys at dene ree, Maun or Gallias factories—aa for emt- « $1 for each emigrant p TL trust this will be agreesbie to your, Hx the honor of @ reply, Tremaia, with re SIMON, Captain, In Presideut Benson’s reply he says:— The eatabliabment of the desired factories or depots among the aborigines within this republic, for the purpose set forth in ‘our note, is aptagonistie.to our kvowed. principles, aa bearing io birong a resemblance to the slave days, and na such would be revolting to the feelings of « hu- mape Christian world, and entail a lasting disgrace upon this government. This goverumeut canaot grant your request. ‘The President (hen proceeded to teil Captain Simon that four days, at auy oue port named, will be sufficient to. in- jorm him whether voluntary emigrants caa be obtained ‘here, and that all sent off to him after that tue are “very apt to be constrained.” ‘There is certainly no uw authorities, and there can be no doubt that they were na- ‘ives, not colonists, the President bad in view when the native towns were spoken of as the places where it was m to establish factories. President Benson's devial is thus fully corroborated. Again, with regard to the duty. Reonipts were given are they? is is, perhaps, as important a matter a5 ony other, because it would go further than any other to establish complicity. If there were receipts in exis- tence—that is to say, if the money had been paid—can it be doubted that they would have been produced long ere this. Their absence is another corroboration of Presi- dent Benson's deuia!, in this particular, worthy of conside- ration. That money was ‘stated, and no doubt truly, by President Benson in his let- ter to Mr. Ralstoa, to have been $369 for license to trade along the coast, that being the duty on the invoice which it was proposed to dispose of; that it bad anything w do with passports is positively denied. The urgency of the authorities to have the emigrants taken from Liberia, the pre payment of the passport duty and the Americvaism of the negroes on board being the three main points at issue, there remains but the last, and we now propose to show that the denial of President Benson is here, also, fully cor reborated. Thomas M. Chester, an inte!l'gent citizea of Liberia, who was inthe United States during oe Lene says see African Repository for August, 1858) “he was bs heats the vessel several times, after they had pro- cured a number approximating 200. The natives, for there were Lo others on board as emigrants, appeared vory much dissatisfied and depressed, aud hoped I would use ¢ to have them released.” ‘oug of the principai teachers of the Alexander High School m Monrovia, and lately a member of the Libe- rian Legisiature, testifies that he ‘was present in tho courts of Monrovia whea the legal question of salvage was tried, and that every emigrant op board was a native, and that but one of them could read the Vey character. (See the Repository above quoted.) pest agi Rev. Alexander Cowan, of Keatucky, who was in Africa at the time, states that on the 19th of De- cember, 1857, he saw the Regiaa Coli six miles above Cape Mount, and that the pursuer informea bim that he had on board two hundred and twenty native Africans, who were to work for a number of years iu Guadaloupe a3 apprentices, t this i not all. The surgeon, M. des Brulaie, whose oflicia! report I have not been abie to procure, ina letter toa relative, written after the event, gives a minute account of the massacre, and uses these words: “I re- mained alone at the mast head. Au emigrant takes aim atme. [ery out to him in African—Je lus erie en Afri cain—my friends, enough of victims! Never have I been upjust. When you have been sick, [have always nursed you.”” Many of them made me tuderstand (me font comprendre) that it was true, and begged me to descend. Ke. fox it, doubtless. Where If the emigrants were Americans, why address them in African. Tis gentleman is the witness relied on to prove their Americanism—inasmuch as he is supposed to have declared that they could read—not Frenca, we presume, but Eoglish. In this event, ho must have un- Gerstood the language; and why, therefore, be shoukd have called ont iu Africau to colonists speakiag Euglish it's difficult to imagine. But, a8 already said, the surgeon's declaration, so far as it can be aecertamed in the absence of his official report, is ot thatthe emigrants were Americans, but that they subscribed their iadentures. If it should be found here- after that he asserts their Americanism, it will be for him to explain why he addressed them in African. Comparing now the French statement with all its im- probabilities with the denial of Preeident Beagon, cor roborated a8 :t is by positive as well as cireurnstantial evidence, there is certainly no dowbt about the side ‘ov which the scale shouid prepondera ‘There still remains the faci, however, that emigrants were obtained within the territorial Limits of Liberta with the knowledge of the authorities; and assuming that the partics on board the Regina Con were natives, the ques tion may be asked “Why did the government bold any intercourse with Captain Simon!—why aot order him to | feave the waters of Liberia and porsie his business ise. where?’ The question appears 4 reasonable one. The goverument of Liberia, like that of tho United States, has no right, 1a Line of peace, to prevent voluntary etai ration, by either its cvilized or uncivilized inhabitants Vere it to pass such a law, no outery yet mate would equa! that which would thea be rated; and the charge at once would be that Liberia was » prison house where se: crets were to be kept {rom ihe civilized world by an embargo upon the peopie. All that Liberia can tly do is to protect, to the ex tent of Ler means, the natives within her borders from wrong aud imposition. They hire themselves oa board the westels that frequent the coast—they make. at times. lovg voyages in them—they may hire themselves as la borers on remote shoree as well as upon shipboard, aud the government of Liberia has no right to probybit it. But if the birers use these oceasious as a means of enslaving the empio; 6s, it becomes the Liberians, assuming as they do the character of guardians of the aborigines, to protect Ahem from the wroug. To Unis eud laws should be made, and the strength of the government should be used to its fullest extent ia enforcing them; and where it hae not Btrength enough for the purprse, and the wrong-doers are the ageats of a civilized State, remonstrance should be employed. opin and again, aud until (as sooner or later it ‘would be) the end was accomplished ant the wrong re- strained. And this, in fuet, bas been the course pursued by Libe. ria. Her constitution dectares that “there si . Slavery in this repabiic. Nor shall any eltizen public, or avy person resident therein, dea! in slaves, either within or without the republic, direotly or indirect ly.” The laws make the slave trade piracy, visiting all parti- clpation in it with the severest pe s Then all em:erant vesecis, uct as tue Regina Cf) required to clear from Monrovia on their retura ee fo that each emigrant may be interrogated personally, tn a port where be can be protected, as to the Cireumstauces: of his embarkation has the action of the goverament bee confined to leg'slating upon the subject ‘As (ar back as 1862, English vesee's having made at tempts to procure wative laborers, a proclamation ing passports and examinations resulted in thete desisting are a France thea embarked iu the plan, In 1866 the proc’ mation that had restrained the English was renewed — this time, however, wthont ettect. Ia Augest, 1967, Pro aiteut Berson ton the jaressed the Freach gorerany srlvoet, requesting “that prompt action should t to cause French subjects to desist at once from the vioia. tou of stataie laws, as well as express treaty stipulations existing between the two nations.”* Ta September, 1857, ex-President Roberts was sent as Coumuissiover 0 Karope, and visited Paris to enlorce por- sonalty the views of bis government. There, it is said, he was advieed that bis proclamations and communica bons from Liberia in this regard had not been satisfactory to the French authorities: Ta Pocember, 1867, the President brought the subject before the Legislature, and invited them at once to enact such a law as “would effectually put a atop to the system of procuring emigrants from our aborigines, of whom we are the guardians.” [twas on this oocasoa that the present laws were passed on the Ist of Februa ry, 1858, which are as stringest aa they ean be, without absolutely protibiting emigration. The Regina Celi was then on the const, and the captain had had Wis only inter view with the President. Subsequently, when the ship was brought into the port of Monrovia by the British mail cage men Bhe was, livelied in the courts for salvage: and dary of Monrovia county found a true Dill agaions Oa in Sitnon for engaging in the slave t at the French war stewmer Renaudin, dier ‘ing everything but the law of yower, carried off both t the custody of the cow ringleaders, who had been charged with the murder of the crew, on the evi- donee of Captain Simon, were acquitted, on’ the ground that being illegally held they were justified in deliveriag themselves by force There stil remains © matter deserving of comment It ts the opiuion wich the French government itself ms of the conduet of the government of Liberia in thie connection. Tt t# certainly not that which one accom pice ought to hold of the other. Wore the charges of Captain Simon, the naval officer, or the surgeon, be tev ing theee last to be as reported, true, the complicity of liberia belug established, she would entitled to commendation at the hands of the Emperor. But if we are to believe the Einbwrg Review, “the Emperor revoked his promise of a war brig and sent the vessel to sorve his new colonies, because the Liberian nuthorities were not eniferently accommodating in promoting the slave trade,’ and if farther proof were wanting, it might be gathered from the Paris correspondent of the London Naw, under dave of Nov 6, 1858, who reports that “Mr, Roberts, the President of the republic of L'lve who oppored Franee in the matter of the Regia Gorl\, ts not been re-elected, and that his sucecseor if a man ikely to give lis active agsistamce to the French opera. tions for the transport of free emigrauta.”’ There is cer taunly gross ignorance of facts here, President Henson baring heen in office about two yeary, and the next elec. tion wot taking place for some time 1 come; Tyut the arth © ite value, a8 indicating the Fragch appreciation of the action of the Liberian authorities, The cae which Was thos been examined extibits un. forteoately, ia fact, the too common apectacte of a struggle vetween the powerful when irresponsible, and the weet aud cnprotected—and instead of there being any just rauee of complaint agalnst Liberia, she is to be honored for the independent aud disinterested manger in which she has asserted, to her own apparent prejudion, rights which, unfortunately for berseif and the cause of bama rity, she had not the physioal force to maintain againat Asion an‘! violente ether your charg if, ae made originally in your speech at nwell Court House, or as moditied tm your letter of the 27th altimo, be regarded, it mast he apparcet after an @raminaton of the proof ty which you have yourself referred, as well as all other testimony which oposed, with a view of giving weight to — ton y here on the partof the ' ment of the passport | id is not denied, but it is | ground for want o¢ we are left to rogre ‘States should have thought (0 asaail, as you have done, the | In vindicating bim » ernment of whict he is the head, and people who placed him ia | the office that be holds, it has been my purpose to do se iw a favrness, aud with no other aun W ascertain the | teuth, 1am nota public man. In the quiet of profcasionat life 1 find evough to occupy me, without @ corres- pondence which is as foreign to my habits as it is profit. Jess and vexatious. But, a8 President of the Americam | Colonization Society, honored with an office which bas been heli by the wisest and the best in the land before me, _ a duty seemed imposed upon me that could not be honora- bly avoided. No of persoual comfort, no disinclination to appear Dlic as a controversialist, would have justified clamor in regard to Liberia assumod by force of the eudorsemeat of a por- son whore position might be supposed to give weight te Lis words, a Weeds Ia not accepting your suggestion and “turoiug my arrows’? «against the Kdinburgh Review" as “a foe mere Worthy of my steel than you are,’ [ might say, sir, that perhaps your modesty leads you much to underrate your- _ self, 1 might say, too, that although ordinarily ready | enough to engage in any labor vindicating Southern rights, , or Southern honor, yet to you, with far more propriety” | than to myself, mght be confided tbe reply, were one deemed necessary, to an article wherein tue South ws made the object’ of especial vituperation. But the true reason, apart from want of leisure, for declining to make the Review the butt of such arrows as I might discharge, is to be found in the fact that I hold my country to have passed long since, orgs Die Kevew in question Was competent to affect , or to chafe the feel: ofa Single individual of her sons; ‘and that, as regard Liberia, she has already lived down more than half of the oft-re- futed slauders which have been now repeated, and that time mag safely be relied upon to vindicate the remainder. JOHN H. B. LATRU! } President American What a Millionaire Can Do. AUGUSTUS THORNDIKE’S EXTRAORDINARY WILL— POSTHUMOUS UNKINDNESS OF A MILLIONAIRE. (From the Boston Traveller, Dec. 21.] In another column we give entire, from the copy offered for probate in the court for this county, the last ‘will aud testament of Augustus Thorndike, of this city, who died at the Tremout House a mouth or two since, leaving am estate, real and personal, of about half a million re. Ic has before beeu briefly stated that a daughter of de. ccased offended her father by marrying against his she being at the time twenty-seveu years of age. stated that the father reached the place of marriage daughter, a few minutes after the ceremony had been formed; but, finding that be was too late, be left house, and ever since has evinced bis hostility to daughter, repulsing her from the bedside on the occasion 0! his last sickness. This will, which is of and in the handwriting of the deceased, is one of the moat remarkable documents of the kid ever dvawu up. The deliberate design exhibited in every page, and in aimost every paragraph, to cnt off his child from any participation in his accumuiated wealth, be- cause she had, at full age, obeyed the dictates of her heart in the choice of her companion for life, is sad te contemplate, It is absolutely terrifying to observe the careful malignity with which, throughout the document, he provides for the carrying out of his almost demoui purpose. The mother w forbidden to give aid to the child of her love: the brothers and sisters are debarred from the exercise of their fraternal affection; all who are named in the will are subject to the same penalties. Old Harvard has « donation of $20,000 for a Professorship of Music, but with like provisions if a copper should go to aid the pro. scribed couple or their children, A pittance of $409 per annum, to save the law, is alone awarded to the discarded ones. fis wife is liberally provided for, but only on con dition that she remains a widow. A pew is left to ber in Trinity Church, but with liberty to sell it and purchase in avy other church, if she may desire it. On that pomt a a aa ig apparent not manifest in other portions of the wil The wife of the deceased is now absent from the country, She is, however, upon her return from Furope, and her arrival the question of pre- bate will be ‘ided. If admitted, an appeal may be taken to a jury of the Supreme Court on the question of the sanity of the testator. It will be seen that he has provided in the present will for the contingency of its rejection, be having ited a namber of other wills in the probate office to offered one by one, according to date, until one is accepted. The will now offered for probate is but two months old, and ‘was prepared ouly about a month previous to the death ten be without propriety added. the husband it may be w imy ty , that the hus! of the bayer | daughter is described by one of the ex- ecutors vamed inthe will as a person of most excelleat character, who holds a high poe in the community. They have several children. It 8 that a son, Mr. J. Stewart Thorndike, of New York, has also offended his father by cont @ marriage without his couseut; but in that case the father contents himself with cutting off, as faras possible, the relations of his son's wife frot any participation ‘in the division of the property. Mr. jornkike Perkins, of Boston, a grandsop of 4 H. Perkins, receives a legacy of $10,000, and also, on certain conditions, another legacy of $60,000, with the understanding that be slovld take the saruame of Thorndike, instead of Perkias. He is also constituted one of the executors. Ast an evidence of the bitterness which he displayed ppg his daughter, we give the following extract from the will — “T give to my daughter Rebecca, now the wife of M. C Marin, the sum of four hundred dollars a year, to be paid to her in person, or upon her separate order or receipt, tm equal quarterly payments of one buadred dollars eac from the day of my decerse; said order or receipt to be im writing, aud by her subscribed, in the preseuce of a stness or withesses attesting the Same, and not to be in favor of or witnessed by the said M. 6. Marin, or aay future husband of the’ said Rebecea; and the said pay ment to be free from ali coutrol or taterference of the said Marin, or of any future husband of the said Rebecca, and im no Ways subject to bis debts. Aud whereas my sad danghter Rebecca eloped and married the said Marin aot only without my consent, but coatrary to my express in _unctions aud under circumstances of after full notice from me of the consequence as now declared in this will, it is my intew | part of my estate, beyond the said amount of four hundred doilare a year, shall, in any event, goto my sat daughter on i her issue: and [ hereby request and order that neither fe, nor any one of my other children, nor any gatee ‘of this will, or person who shail become entitied to any property or income by virtue of ite visions, shatl at any time aid my said daughter becca with money or in any other way; and all the provisions of (his will for tle benelit of my wife, and those for the benefit of my other children, and for the Denelit of all and avy other person whatsoever, are upoo the express condition, that if either of them shall aid my said daughter Rebecca by giving or bequeathing to her, or her husband, present or future, or her issue, any other or greater share of my estate than is provided for ber b; this will, or by giving or bequeathing to her husvand, present or fature, or her issue, sum of WuLy OF pro- perty whataor ver, in that case all the provisioas of this will for the bovelt of the person or persons so aiding my Saul davghtor Rebecca, her husband or issue, thereafter cease and become void and of n9 effect. And all the pro was by this will otherwise inteod- the benefit of the persou so aidiag given to or my said daughter Rebecca, her husband or issue, is bere by given over, upon the happening of the said veut, to such of my ren, other than the said Rebecer, aud under the sa Jitions, as shall not £0 disobey the ex press injunction of this wul: aad iu case of their : the same over, upon like cond f exid’ other ehildren the sam 7 hereafter follow the case p of all my chi (eXeept the said Robeceay aud thelr issue. But it the person so disobeying the express iujunetioa of this wii), be one of the children of either of my childrea, (other than the said Rebeeca,) and have issue living at or after the time of such breach of condita, wh er property or income, ander the provisions of this will, would otherwise belong or be payable to such children, shail thereafter belong or be payable to bis or her lawful istue, under the same conditions, in Heu of his or her brothers and s.sters, and their issue, as above expressed my intention bei to make the forteiture personal only, i during the life of the person breaking the condition, af not to extend to his or Aud wh ever and so often ae the said any one of my children or their iesue, property or income witch he or she Wwoald be ot entitled to, under the provistous of this will, slval UPEn pase to and become vested in the person oF persons who would next be entitied thereto, according to the terms of the trust hereinaiter declared, excepting that in the case of issue of the person 80 breakiag the condition of this will, born after the happening of such breach, such after-horn ‘issue shail be let into the immediate eajoy- ment of the same righta of property and income to whieh y would have succeeded at the death of their pa rents if there had been uo breach of condition: aud for the purpose of effecting the intent of this provision, the oad apparently vested by the breach of condition im any other person to the same property or income shall be di verted by the subsequent birth of arch issue, aud shall be ferred to such issue, under the like condition, as J, 90 long as the trust hereinafter created shall continue, and my trustees shail be bound to dis trust property held by them for the beaedit of £0 violating the intention of this will, and to pay over ail income proceeding terefrom, or from any trust property iu their Lands which wouli otherwise Gave been payable to such person, ip the same manner as if such person had died, according to the limitations of the trvst, i that hereinafter expreaved, with the exception aforesaid er born istue, whiel is to be deemed aad taken as a urther imitation of the said t He is also protty severe on a daughter (n-law, who is aleo bis neice, a8 will be seon by another extract from the will, Tu consequence of the marriage of My for, Jammer Stewart, with his cousin, Henrietta Delyrat, » er cumstances not known to meat tie time, bat wined f bave now discovered, and which plainly disclose « pias of Ong standing, deliberately and successfiily po on the part ‘of hicrvelf aud her totter to Wad my w while yet a mere youth, into a matrimonial en much to bis injury, ander the idea ehe should come entitled, event ly, to some large share of ui tate, and in Soneequence Of tle more futimate aeq tance which L have now formed with ber and her charac ter, my intention i lade het aud her funviy from any further pecunia t to resuitto her aad thea from enid marriage thao is a § expressed :—That is to aay, T give to ber, for hor personal maintenance, In case she should sarvive my said son, and 80 as she shalt ity of Cour hundred do'tace a tga to be patd to ber in ir, from the day ‘taray bet We and widow. hood, Hut tO Conse in the event of her secont mareiage The foregoing annolty T consider to be saMliceut provision, under the eirow aforesnid, for the present wife my said aon and ber family; and f hereby fortid my ex ecntors and trustees to make to her or to ber mothsr, brotters or sisters any further allowance or payment M. facomensey, President of the Conn Minister of Justice 1a Saxony, has died