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ae sae “END OF A MISSION The Correspondence Between Minister | Motley and Secretary Fish Con- cerning the Former’s Reeall. SECRET HISTORY OF HIS MISSION, Motley’s Own Memoirs of an Am-. bassador, His Peremptory Recall by the President. Tho Minister's Refusal to Resign ond His Protest Against the “Outrage” of | His Removal. The Alabama Claims Untouched in His Instructions. " ' Secretary Fish’s Answer in) Rebuttal. A Positive Departure from His Instruc- | tions in the Alabama Question the | Cause of His Removal. What He To'd Lord Clarendon, and what Secretary Fish Told Him. Other and Minor Lapses on the Part of the Ambassador. St. Domingo Nothing to do With His Removal. WasuixoTon, D. C., Jan. 9, 18 ‘The following correspoudence relative to the re- call of Minister Motley was laid before the Senate two-day :— Mr. Motley to Mr. Fish. LEGATION OF THE UNITED StiTEs, LONDON, Dee. 7, 1870. Referring to my despatch, No. 525, I have now the honor to state that your despatch, No. 285, accompa- Dying a letter adcressea by the President to her Ma- Jesty the Queen, ann uacing my recall, w’s read by me on the 22d ult, I hau ap interview with te prin- cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Adfairs on the same day, and verbaily communicated To him the fact of my recall. As her Majesty was then in Scot- land, but was intending to return very soon to Windsor Castle, tt was agreed, between Lord Gran- wile and myself that it would be best to defer for a few days my formal note announcing tat I had been entrusted with the above mentioned letter of the President. Accordingly, on the 29th ult, I made & written communication to his Lordship, a copy of which is appende1. On the 4th inst. I received a notification announc- ing that her Majesty would receive me on the eth Inst, and on the same day a letter from Lord Granville, of which a copy 18 annexed. Oa the 6th inst, I had the honor of taking leave of her Majesty, Bnd of stating, in accordance with your instruc. | 5 tions, the desiie of ihe President to maintain the iendly relatioas Wich bow so nappily subsist bee ween the two countries, Upon retiring irom the mission, upon tie th inst, | committed the archives and gother property into the hands of Mr. Moran, Wav tas wow charge of the Legation, Having thus ciosed uy brief mtssiou at Us court I think it proper to place on record a statement cf the mauner in which i has been terminated. On th 25th Of June tast 1 read in the telegrapnic inteili- ence froin the United States of a London journal me announcement, L.eficial, but verited by subse- quent events, that the President of the United states bad signified his iateution of removing me from my post. It would be impossibe for any diplomatic agent to believe himself inore thoroughly pos- sessing the contidence of the guvernment which he had the bouor to serve than I supposea myself to enjoy at that moment. No intimation of couremplaiel change had been made to me. No shadow of a ditiereace of opinion exisied beiween the f’re-dent and his governinent aud mysei! #s to Our relvions With Creat Britain or any viner Power, 0° as to the gencral poicy of his administration, aud | Was at twat very period en- gaged in as delicate and confidential a dipiomauc correspondence with yourself and the British govera- gent upon several Muportant matters as could well be confided by w goverimeut to its foreizn agent. The report inthe hewspapers £ disintssed, there- fore, ag un idie rumor, the President of the United Btates being imcapats as | believed, of tous deal- lag with @ pubic servant whom he had nim- bell So Teenliy appointed. Had a chauge been contemplated 1 ieit certain that I shoud have been privately mformed of it first aud the public aiierwa'ds. Had any charges of de- Teliction Ol duty been possible | was sure that they would have been preterred to my face so that I might have the opportunity of answering them. Had the pubic service, or even the exigencies of party politics, made # change tn this mission neces- bary in the optaion of tae President, I could not doubt thet a courteous despatch Would have ap- prised ine of the fact and the reasons, coupled with the acknowledgment Lo which I felt inyseit eutitied, that 1 bad beeu veaious and taithful i the discharge of the teh Olice with which the Presideut and Senate had hono ed me. No man bas tue right to doubt that in such case I would at ouce have offered my resiguation. Ninecn days later than the appearance of the original auvonucement, frequentiy repeated and commented upor by ihe journais ef the Unitea States and tis country, | tia the huvor to receive ou the 1sth of July 4 wetier irom yourself to tue fol- lowing eileci:— {Private.} DIPARIMENT OF STA 1H, WAGUINGTON, July 1, 1870. J. LoiwBor Mor.uRyY, Leg. Lonuen: Sin—T am in 1 by ie President cf the United States to saythat be Quus Mt c able to make # change in the mission to bngand, andMiat he wishes to allow you the Opportunity of res nin. iu case you nsiinet to dowo. | With creat respect, yours, very traly, HANILION FISH, Complying with the reqnest contained m your hrief ieegram, received afew hours earlier thau your leuer (waidnizut, Lk July), which was to this ette Atm directed to say (he President would tike an answer by telegraph to wy letter of ist ast, | 1 sent you on the 14th oj July a telegram in cypher, a8 foliows:-— request you to ini rm the President that I c eo lue oifer which be makes me ia ny my post, for e my jet of to-day. The telegraph soon miorm d the word that a gen- Mean Was HoUiuaed Ly Lie seuate as my successor on that ytue ida) of July, and that he was Loin, iS Wy evtion of the President's first and ony nodueaion to my refusal by telegraph to Fesign, the Hou.ualion Of a successor and lis con. | Brmation by tue Senaie were ail compressed within avout forty-erclit vours. My jeter ot even date Wad BENE IN tue Gespaten bay or that day, but of course could mot arrive woul ma days later. it was ip these words:— Lroastox oF Tur UstteD arate OX00.%, duly I Bre—I have the honor to receive your pri sets, fron a. Yuu nie iDai:ueted by tue President to say #10 Wake 4 cua. th the miasion tO Wises to allow me the opportuaity of eel tuchined to dose. In compliance ed a your teegean or Lah inst. £ yto We avove ment et leer by a so Words:—-(T'be text of the above elted tele- England, wud Fosixuing iv case ihr ie Fequvat co replied this ant iu further expiaoation of my ho reunous are given why L should resto the 1 was appoiuwd by the President niveen ith, 4 be1e ¢. the unanimous consent of the knuw ou. none, wad ax Lam not conscious {Lo carry Yul bo tue best of my avbity ’rea\.eot durmg tue period Way L siouid ve asked to 4y IC 1# not my wish to em: bl have always fuithtuily to myself. Were I now to ace rded me to resign it would lw avoid ar ‘ai whieh I feit to be tstanse ton Ww be relore no Js regard, I do not ike ing & contrary amis. «8 & favor, to resiga @ | rier to ekeape examina: | tauit, stitcies! scruuiny In the appearanee of my es permite. asuuty tn but resignation, under each ei y uct, and does not seem to me Val. Such # proceeding on my erstood by many boty at home Value. With great respect, yours very traly, JOUN LUTHROP MOTLEY. [ suppose. of course, that this letver duly reached | government, | to ma agi poraze | to tngiand ony NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1871—%RIPLE SHEET. ‘ou. although its receipt has never been acknow~- edged, Hor, tideed, has a single line since your Above quoted letter been received by me in revard to my renoval or to the appo.ntment of one or anotuer gentioman to this post, until the arrival of Your bejore mentioned despatch of the loth of Nove uber last, It woud be diMeult to treat an envoy of the United States, accredited to ci) sovereign of a powerful government, with & fore marked dis- peppest. Loz nis gMoral Position, or for his f-elings as loyal citizen Of the republic, than has becn done in my case, So far asl am aware ne regularly con- firmed Minister at this Court has ever been removed by the Prosident who ap; pointer him. It has generally been tdmitted im our country that power and responsibility are tnsepar bie, d hat republican tostitutions are founded upou reason, justice and honor, not upon arbiuary will, Yet the government of the United | States has deliberately wrought as much injury to my reputation io an honorable profession as 1b could do, and ‘here 18 not a charge against me. My amol- toa has always been to deserve the good opinion ef my countrymen, The Awerican people are just and honorable, and I should be pained if they believed me unfaitutul to the bigh tru-t reposed in me, or to have been at any time deficient in maintaining their honor or tote-ests, Many far abler men than my- Seif, iiustrious statesmen beside whose vames my own cannot even be mentioned, have seceded me in this office, but not one Roe ever becn more zealous or assiduous, or more anxiously resolved to obey tie Instructions of his Tae egotisin Of this despatch is not in accordauce wiih my taste or my feehngs; but the government nas placed me in @ posittun In Which Self-verence is imperative. This much Lowe to the iguity of an ofice wach has been insulted in my p.rson; to my character, Which has been sub_ected ant aud anonymous attacks. I% is oO. the least . once.vavie consequeae to the American peo- pie whetuer liey are or are not represented in this country by myself. Ic 18 of very grave consequence tuata re; resentative of the United Stutes abroad may be suduenly visited at any moment by the severest penully shat the Executive can deal toa per alee Minister, and yet that there suould be no detault. ‘The pension of United States Minister at this Court a laborious one, aud my Whole time has been devoted to Treaty, the proposed Consular Convention, the at- taiument Of the release by her Maesty’s govern- ment o American ciuzens contined in British vus for compleity with Feman matiers, & ong ors, especiaily eulrus ed to we, nave begu elther AS to the 80- Alabama uezolutions, 1 never received a pears by my latest correspondence, caded | power in regard to them, the goverament naving hitherto thought i best to keep them suspended aud to conduct thea when resumed at Wasuiugton, Aud pow, in the projound silence of the govern- | ment (o regard to this suduen chauge, I ain obliged to seek culghieniuent at @ Source whence a diplo- mae agent oes nov Usually expect his orgimal and euly Huo;maton as to fumself and lis mission, Fromm rumor aloue | derived all the facts counected | Wi.l lay Gismissai, and rumor has vaguely atew pied to iidicate tis caus reasons wie ley Iv is not for me to say whether wily Lecessary; but neither govern- Meuts hor individuas, Lewever arbitrary, can es- cape the triounal of the public con- Science. It has been said that 1 volunteered to prepare my oWa lastructions; that wuen pre- pared they were submitted to and disapproved vy You as hut being in accordance with the views of the | adiuisisiratieu; that | was subsequentiy turuished i} Dy You witu the imstrucWous of the President; that on wy irst imerview with the late Lord Clarendon | I suppressed tuose instructions and submitted to Ue .aygiish Secretary of State my owa private Views, Coulaiied in cue paper which wad been dis- Approved aud wich were in direct opposition to those of the 1 Musily presented those views in wring to the Eugush government as the policy of the Presi- dent. Certaiuly, if this tale Were trua, it Would have been the duty of the President, as Sool aS We 12cis becume KNOWN to him, to recall me Witveut a MOMeN’s Gelay. Diplomatic intercourse betweon nadous Would be lupossivie f an agent shou d be retacned in oMce who deliberately and jntentoually yolates the tuetructions of nis geveru- ment. B it tae tale 13 false, and in order to dispreve it ist take tue iberty of recalling certato linpor- Lut lacts ty your receliection. Alter the President had honored me with the ap- poimuneat of Minister to this Court | employed my- seul in the val v. Wailing for my imstiuctions at Wastingten in mimiag the archives and reviving my recoJectious 0: previous amporiant ne- gotlauons and discussions between the gov- ernwents of the United States and Great Britain. In so dolug 1 drew up a historical memotr. concerning which there occurred some eulitely iniormal couversatiou beiween your- scl. aud one or two Oder friends OL mine, aud It Was. Suggested buat it Might ve worth your while to read > paper, if you coud Mud leisure ume to do so. accoruingly sent to you, aud subsequently 110 me With ho expression of disseut as to any Of its views, but With an intimation on your ju the wisdom oi which | eatirely acquiesced — iL Was tuousht best by tue President, ta conse- ce of the exciiement exisung in both ‘countries by reason ol Ue rejection Of tue convent.ou of the 1iib January, 1394, to suspend for a limtced ume tne discussion of digerences between the two coun- r From that day to tais there has been no ques- won inregard to tus iemotr. [tt bas laid andisiurped among my papers. It has never becn secn or heard of vy ay Meubver Of Tue British government or by wh Whalevgs iD tis county. So jar as lam ed no one bul yourself and two other Ameri- cau [reads ever Saw 2, and pot one line of it has ever veep used by me Oitle.aily or privaiely. ‘ihe Instructions iu your No. 3, Were delivered te me on the morning of my departure trom New York for ‘iag pou Lord Clarendon as an oid acquaint { lus private residence on the aay atier my arrival, 1 louk palas to state, a8 appears by lus despatch to Mr. Thornion (10th June, 1399, PUvUSieL in parliamentary papers nearly a year ago), Luat 1 prei.rred not lo enter upon matters of Dustiess Liat day, as iy instructions had only been delivered to me wheu on the point of embarkation, | aud 1 bad not yet had time to sutliciently consider them. I suie ert Uiat { was actuated at tuat MoMeut oF arrival und at every momeat since by the earnest desire und determination to carry out the Presidents iustructioas with loyaity and to the best of my ability, and Lever intentionally to propound ny own 1ud.vidual opinions as Whose of the govern- Taent. So iar as my liumbie sery.ces could coniri- bute to the resull, i¢ was my wisbd that noimng suould be eft undone on my part to make lus © vil aduunisiradon as suce bad veen glorious. it was, as I supposed, undes stood before my departure for Engiaud, although | Doi pubi.cly auuounced, that the so-caiied Alabama hegouatious, Whenever renewed, should be co. qucted at Washiigton in ease of the consent of une Brisk governmeut. I had been instructed, hew- ever, 10 su.gest Lo that goverument that’ there should be a suspension Of all discussion ef dispuied questions ror a short time, 10 order to alow the sub- ce OL exctiement or irmtauon growing out of negotiation or reect.on of the convention of the Isth of January, 186¥. ibis suggestion | made at the outset of my first official interview with Lord C.arendon, which took place on the 10tu of June, i869, aud we had then a full conversation on te general relations between the tw: countries. I Was uot authurized to read him these, your first general instructions, stil .ess to farnisi him a copy Of the Such a course would have been opposed todiplomawe u re. was allowed, in my discre- tion, to cusmmunicate certain views, aad | proceeded in the exercise OL that di-eretion to render the sub- | stance of your payer of instractons, folio pages, with aS much accuracy as to the order of topics, tone of thought and general phraseology as it was po: lor me to do in a Jauiliar conversation. dull record of that conversation 13 made in my No. 8 It reveals throughout au earnest disposi- U0 Oo my pail to reproduce your tastractions with Hdeluy., On reveiving Uiat communication you ad- dressed me a courteous, candid and trieadly despatch, iu which there were some criticisms upon certain pordons of my narrative. J take leave .o quote im } Unis piace the whole of that despatch, because It con- | tains the oly exceptions taken by you to any ex- pressions of mune during the whole course of my Mission:— [No. 28] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 2} WASHING ZON, June 29, 1559.) —I have to acknowledze tue receipt of your despatch » ditted Jane 12, aud have read w ta mich Interest its ive of your very important ioter.tew with Lord Clar- Your presentation anil treatment of the sev- 1 in that interview meet te approval of epartment. In the cours» of tue conversation, wowever, 1ew of the right of every Powel ows relations ant thowe of its citizens was uot con se confurmity to that view as I desired to pre- and as It would douvtiess have been conveyed ur Communication been made in writing. again be a to of off 4 communication ana the Minister of Foreign Affaire; but I to call your alteution to it because of the fn your despatch that Lord Clarendon at that part of your remarks that 1f there was y discussion of the principles it had better be done and tthe bottom. The President recognizes tie eof athorouzh discussion, whenever the subject d, upon all the points of ‘difference. ever negotiat discussion on the subject of called, shall be renewe: be and he desires that ai the sibjec detw ee enture ement observed to be p 'y this wish to the Minister for Foreign Aifairs. It is iinpossible to say at pre- sept when that ume will arrive; but it will cer- tainly have arrived whenever the British government Shall | propose ow | discussion or aball intiinal esiré to reopen the negopation. In the meantime y e wail content to reat the yuestion on the very foreib tation Yu have made of the American side of t It” wal strongly done, and Jf there were expre flons used atronger tian Were required By your fostructions excess was in the right direction, and, stopping where ‘Jo and uttered as they were, ft may well be hoped. that y may ten! to im resé the Minister with the seriousness of ap appreciation of the grievaaces we have sustained, I am, sir, vbedient servant, HAMILTON FISH. JouN' Loranor MOL.EY, Haq., &c., ke., we. The paragraph of your instructions especially | alluded to by you io the above mentioned lever is us follows: — ‘The Presi lent recognizes the right of every Power, when a elvi conflict bas arisen within anotier State and has obtain- eat . ompi gnitude and completeness, to own reiat.ons and those of its citizens and subjects #to the conilict 80 far as their # and interes: 8 orliy aifected by the conflict. sity and propriety of tue original concession of beillgerency by Great Br-tain at the Ume it was made have been contested nd are not admited. 1 questionable; the President regards that concessioa part of the case only so far as it sows the beginnin, the antmus of that urse of conduct which resulted’ 0 disastrously to the ed Stairs, It js important in that {t foreshadowed sub teveuts. There were other Powers thut were conte ona; but it was plemented b cts causing direct da ates. ‘The Pres: dept is curevulto make this discrimination, because he Soxious as much as possible to invo view these su sequent acts, which are 8o {iaportant to dete rmine the question between the two countries. In my conversation, endeavoring to report in my own words lhe substance of the whole paper, I said 10 regard to this puragraph a8 appears by the record, then stated the opinion of the President se yu a4 with 3 simplify the cane wad bring _ Bhowd ono peng pe bic K Its duties, ‘Tne Naturatization | conciuded or are Upon Lhe point of Tuldluent, as ap. — dent, and, moreover, that I for- | | retary of ful as his mil.tary career | il coatlict has angen within another state, to | He wishes | 1n regard to the recognition or concession of bel- {| liger-ney as staied in your No, 3, saying that the President recognized the right of a sovereign Power to issue a proclamation of neutrality between an in- , surgent portion of anation and the lawful govern. | ment when such insurrection should have gained the necessary magnitude, consisteacy, extent of organized power and probability of justifica- | tion by success, but that such measures Must be Lake ».ch @ full sense of the grave respon. sivilivies incurred, The famous proclamation of neutrality of the 13th of May, 1861, was not consid- ered justifavle by the United States government; | but the President wished it to be used when our case gd Only a8 ing ani- mus and as béiti fotutain head o: the disasters which had been caused to the American peopl both individually and collectuvely, by the hands 0} Exglisbmen, (ther nations had issued prociama- tions contemporaneously, or | early so, with that of Great Britain; but from Great Britwin alone had come a long series of deeds lujurious to the United | States as frais of the proclamation, whe trom | other nations there had come no injury save the ue- | claration ixelf, | Nothing lurther on the subject occurred. The pause | recommended by you wag scrupulously observed unul the arrival of your despatch of the 26th of September, 1:6), in which you informed me that the President was inclined to’ believe that suitic.ent Ume had elapsed to aliow subsidence of emotions, Q@nu that thus it unght be opportune to place in my hands, lor appropr.ate use, a @ispassionale exposi- tion of th» just causes of complaint 1 the sovern vent ol the United States gainst that of Great Britain. On rece ving that despatch, in order to avoid a pos- sibility OL misunderstanding the President's lnstruc- tious, | immediaicly te.egraphed to you for permis- sion to furnish a copy of it to Lord Clarendon, as | you only instructed me to read it to him. You re- | plied by authorizing me to send a copy it he should ask for it in writtog. This was accordingly done without delay. As Lord Clarendon’s language at tie interview in June had been significant aud de- cided In regard to the expediency of anstainivg at | that moment from the discussion of exciting ques- tons, uniess they were fully debated; as_his expres- | sions of friendship towards the United States aud of abhorrence of even the possibility of war be- tween the two countries were — singularly | warm, and as his part in the conversa- ton = was = most important and interesting, Thad taken the precaution, before sending you a despateh on the subject, to request him confidenti- ally to read over the record wiicn { had made of our conference, it was expressly understood between ‘us that no one should look at 1s but himseif, anu that Nota single nute of its contents should be made. Conscious tha: [ had endeavored to present tne | President's views wiih fidelliy and accuracy, and not doubling that I had done so, 1 wished to be sure that | had correctiy reported what Lord Clarendon had said and to avoid Lae possiblity of future ditter- ences of recollections, This procecding, eat.rely in accordance with the best diplomatic usages and | with commen sense, did not seem to me at first of suitictent impettance to be narratcd. it was only after receiving your No. 23, with its friendiy criticisms On my report of the interview, that tt occurred to me it might be useful for you w know the fact of tie confidential revision made by Lord Clarendon of his share in the conversation. 1 made & communication to you according y to that effect op the guth of July, of Whicl no ackuowledgo- ment Was received by me until near.y three months | afterwards. Meaatime your lustractioas No, 70 | had ween received by me ond reaq, in accordance with your directions, to Lord Clarendon. On the 2.4 of October, 1369, | received a brief in- struction from you, 11 consequence of which I ad- dressed, on tie same day, the following note to Lord Ciarendon (puptished to the Gazette 21th of De- cember, 1862): LEGATION Or THE UNITED STATES, LONDON, Oct, 237 1869, My Lorp—In reference to tue conversation which I had } with your lordstip on we Luth of June las to the de- apatch from the United States Secretary ot ‘State which I liad the honor to read to you un the 15th in: ay hay | poseibly appeared that there was some inconsis eucy be- | tween the views of the President upon the subjects of the nition of the iate insurgents in the Southern Bates as uts and the destruction of American commerce by | rs of British orlgia, carrying the insurgent faz, as | verca ly expressed by me at tue lite: view in Jung und those | views ns set forth In the above mentiones despatch. I tuiak Xt necessary to inform your lordship, therefore, tat the Sec- aie, on reception of my despacch recounting the auostance of tae couversstion in June, oocerved to me, In a despatch of the 2h of June, that 1 did not seem that the President's view oc the rizbt of every Power, whon a civil conflict 1:as arisen in anotuer State, to detine’ its own rela- tioas and those of fis clazens, had been couveyed in precise concormity to that view as tue Secretary of Stute desired to present it to me, and as it doubtiess would have been con- ‘Yeved by me had my communication been ma.e in writing. | T would tuere‘ore request your lordship to consider the de- spatch of tue United states Secretary of Staie which | read to you on the Lita inst, and a copy of which 1 have had the honor of sending ty your turdship, as the exact an authori- tative atatemenc of the President's views oa tue subject as laid down in ail tue instructions given under his direc.ions by the Secretary of State. | Ipray your lordship to accept the assurances, &c., JOHN LUPHKOP MOTLEY, } _ And on the 26th of Octover I wrote a note to you, from which the folowing is an extract:— { Had I submitted the whole case in writing on my first arri- val instead of conversation (which would have been aiiicult and unusual I should, of course, have used the very words Of your ins:ructious, so aa to transmit with absolute exact- ness their tenor My wish ta to conform with entire fideuty to the fresidenc’s views and your directions. 1 doubt whether Lord Ciarendon observed any | marked inconsistency between the views as verbally stated by me on June Lu and as set fortn in your No. 70, which {read tv him on the 15thof October. At any rate he made ne comuexts to such edect either during the reading er aiter it had been conciuded, |. li ever dipiomatic incident not profouadiy impor- tant In itself coud be considered as terminated certainly here wus one. To suppose that an unin- tent.onal and almost impercepuble variation im the verval rendering by & Minister of a single paragraph in along despatch, scrapulousiy set right on the first opportunity, could be Cause or justtfication ot taat Minister's sudden dismissal from oiice thirteen monihs aiterwards, without a word of explanation, ; is monstrous, /eualty, even under the most arbi- * trary and frresponsibie gove nment, woud fol.ow at once upon the imaginary offence and be opealy | aad rankly assigned. } Lord Clarencon, in Dis reply to my letter of the 23d of Uctober, did nov admit, and never in conver- | sation, oficial or private, subsequendy admitted, that he had discovered any inconsistency bewween the brief exposition made by me in the conversa. | ton in June ef the Presidenv’s views on bellige- | rency, as 1 understood them, and the eiavorate statement on the sub,ec. contained in your No. 70, & copy of which I furnmshed him. it would have been difficuit for hun to do so, as my record bad not been officially submitted, and no trace of it exists in the arciuves of the Foreign Ofice, It would, I think, have been duticult, in any event, for him or any ovher statesman to‘ have distovered a serious incousisiency. In nineteen folio pages of your NG. 70, of the 25th of September, you speak of tbe proclamation of the 13th of May, 1861, and the previeus announcement on the 6th of that month, @s having been received by the United States gov- | ernment “with painiul astonishment.” You that “every sovereizn Power decides for itseli on 1t3 responsibility Whether or not it will at a given ume accord the statas of belligcrency to the insurgent | Subjects Of another Power; but that the rightfuiness of the act depends on the eccasion and the circum. | stances.” You speak of the proclamation, as “pre- | pitate,” “unreasonabie,’’ “premature, and | characterized, in the words of Mr. Bright, by remarkable ceierity, undue and unfrieadiy | | haste.” You called the assumed belligerency of the ; Insurgents “a fiction,” and say that, so far as it was | Inariume, it proceeted from the ports of Great | Britain and her dependencies aione, with the aid and co-operation of subjects of Great Briain. You characterize the recoguilion as ‘prejudicial to the legiimate government,” and you say that there | were no facts ‘to justify the action ot Great Britain me present case;” thal, tuereiore, “the United States felt constrained at the ume to regard the | prociamation as the sign of a purpose of unfriend- | liness to thein aud of friendlimess to the Iusurgents, | | and that in virtue of the proctamation maritime en- | terprises in the ports of Great Britain which would | otlerwise have been piratical were rendered lawful, and thus Great Biliain becaine, and to the end cou- tinued to be, the arsenal, the navy yard and the | treasury of the lnsurgeat Confederates.” 1 have not been avie to discover wherein lies that | inconsistency between my efurt in Juue, as above chted, to explain what [ understood to be the Presi+ | dents Views and the exposition trom which these | extracts are made. You have never explained the nature of the discrepancy, aud it stil remalas a mystery tome, ‘The correspondence communicated to the Senate on the 1th of July, 1870, and much | more which remains uupublisiied, shows now earnestly | supported the Views of the President as | communicated In your above cited despaich. 1 have recalled io your memory these facts at some | lengih, because the statement slows Una. there has | always been scrupaious and minute fidelity to in- structions on my part. During thirteen months suc- ceeding the incidents of Jane, 1809, the government has employed me in the most serious matiers that can occupy aD envoy, In the negotiation of treaties ) @nd other important and confidential business, up to the momeat when, in three jines, you intormed me tuat the President, for uo reason wiiatever, Would permit me to 'resiga. Siace that hour f | have heard through the public press from time to time, and through that source ouly, that tue mis- { | Sion lad been oered to and refused by one gentie- } man after anoiher, Having for weli considered | | | | reasons refused to resigu, I have been obliged to wall, and with extreme impatience, my recall and the notification oi the appointment of my successor. No successor having been appoluted, the President has thought proper at last to order me peremptorily, without one word of explanation, to place the con- duct of the mission in the hands of the Secretary of | Legation, and to reure jrom my post—an indignity, 1 believe, to which no public Minister of the Uaited States has ever been before subjected. History wiil decide upon whom the discredit of the transaction resis. Ihave beard of no other pretext deserving anything but disdam in an oficial document like Luis to justify the acuon of the government, save one, which I reserve to the last. it has been rumoved in every way by which public thought can unofiicioliy express iself that I have | been removed from the post of Mmister to England because of the opposition made vy an eminent Senator who honors me with his friend- | siip to the ratification of the St. Domingo | treaty. Upon this I shall only observe that my own opinion in regard to the annexation of that isiand has bever been asked for by any person whatever; that 1 have never expressed an opinion on the sub- Ject, publicly or privately, for the simple reason that the materials tor formiug an opinion have never | been within my reach, and I have bad enough to do in attending to the duues of my mission without meddling with matiers which did net concern me. I know not whether the rejection of that treaty by the Senate was the cause of removal; but tus tgp Know, that the Senate rejected the treaty on the 30th of June ot tis year, and the lever requesting my resignation was written the next day-—namely, on the ist of July, I here place it on record as an his- torical fact, Thave thus recorded {n my last oMcial aot & solemn protest against the outrage, as I belteve on- tirely without prevedent, of my peremptory re- | Moval. 1 shalloaly add that, while mainianimg | during my brief mission, the honor and rights of | tue country which I had the privilege to represent, T have always reported faithiully the earnest aud, as | believe, the sincere desire of the British Rerere. Ment and people to revive curaial and kindly rele | tions between the two countries, to make iresh | etforts for the settiement of part grievances and to | rovide against their future recurrence. There can No Boo er ainbition than to strive for such @ re- | ull, aud toe atatesmea woo may accomplish it will deserve Weil of two great nations, § JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, Mr, Motley to Lord Granville. LAGATION OF THR UNITED STATRS, TONDON, Nov. 29, 1970, My Lony—Retferring to my verbal communication to your Lordship on the 220 inst., 1 have now the honor to state that I have 1ead a letter addressed by tho President of tho United States to her Majesty | the Queen announcing my recall from the post of , Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentlary | at this court. I have the honor to enclose ; herewitn an oOlice copy of the Presi | dent's letter, or to request your Lordshy to be so gvod as to ascertata ta WHA Miaaner Ke wit be most axrecable lor ber Majesty to receive the eriginal, and to accept the expression op the part of the Presidvat of the United States, which I have been in. tracted, ou taktug leave ef her Majesty, to convey, of his desire to maintain the frieadly rela | tious which now 80 happily exist botween the two | cou.itries, | i have further to acquaint your Lordsitp that on retiring {rom the mission J have been tustructed to commult the archives of the legatiou into tne hands of Mr. Moran, to whom, lor the present, such com- munieations as may Ye Necessary can Oe adiressed. In thus closing my vilicial re.atlons with your Lordship I trust that you will permit me t> express my high sense of the untforin courtesy and cordl- ality, both on your Loruship’s pert ad ou that of the late lamented Earl Clare dou, which have 80 much (acilliated (he discharge of my duties here, | and to assure you that they have ever been highly appreciated by me. \ T have the honor to be, with the highest conside- ration, my Lord, your Lordship’s most ovedient ser- | vant, JOHN LOTHAOP MUTLEY, | To the Right Honorabie the EARL OF GRANVILLE, | &e, &o. Lord Granville to Me. Motley. FoREIGN OricR, Dec. 5, 1870, | Sirr—I have not failed to lay before the Queen | your note of the 29tn uit., enclosing a copy of your letier of recall, and in acquainting you that Her Majesty will grant you an audience at Windsor Castle to-morrow at three o’ciock for the purpose of delivering the original. 1 au comuanded to express to yeu her Majesty's sincere este +n and her regret at your departure frow this country. { ‘nauk you very inuch jor the Kind exp: essiups with regard to my predecessor and myself which are con- tained in your note, It was (0 him, as it has been to me, an agreeable duty to communtcae with yoo on | the atfairs ol our respective countries. { 1 snail be happy to address to Mr. Moran, as you request, any communications which 16 may” be necessary to make to the Legation. T have the honor to be, wita the highest considera. tions, sir, your most ovedient, humbie servaui, GRANVILLE, [No. 54.) To Joun Loraror MOTLEY, Esq., &C. Secretary Fish to Benjamin Merau, Secre- tary of Legation. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, D. U., Dac. 30, Toro. } BENJAMIN MORAN, Esq., &C.: Sre—A paper was received at the same time with your latest despatches purporting to be from the Legation of the Unitea States in London, tn the | form of an oficial despatch, numbered 629, and signed by Mr. Motley, tne ate Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pi enipovenuiary from nis government to that of Great Britain. Mr. Motiey retains in this paper the form and style of oficial correspondence, although he had ceased to hold oficial relations wit) this govern- ment. He professes to write trom the Legation, no longer mm his charge. His paper is entitled “End of Mission” and extends over sixty-two pages of manu- script, of which two are given to tue ucknowledg- ment of the receipt of uta letters ef recall and te a@leged causes vi delay in their presentation, aud jess than one page records his taking icave and the committal to your clarge of ‘he archives and other property of the Legauon. Here, it migut be supposed—having reached aud recorded the “ead of his mission”’—would ve ‘ound the end of lis paper. But M:, Motley proceeds through ity oad pages, “recording tie end of his imission,” to place on record a statement of the “unauner in which it has been terminated.” it may possivly occur to some sensitive persons that delicacy, not to say propriety, Would suggest to @ retired odlcial Of ine goverment, wisuing to place: his views on ‘he Oullcial arcuives, lo make @ Fequest to that effect, which cervainly Would have beea most cheerfully accorded to a yentienan of Mr. Motiey's eminent distinciton aad great avility. But Mr. Mouley, ‘having closed his uiission," a! No perinisslen, out assumes as a rigit to place his statement an rocord. Questioning Uke tase aud denying the right Of tus assum, tion, 1 neverthe- less allow a piace in the diyomaue records of the | country to Mr. Motiey's lustury of the “ead of his mission.’ Mr. Motley states that on the 25th day of June last he read im the telegrapmic inteiligeace trou the United Siaies of a London journal ine aanouuce- ment of his coming removal. ie had not veeu an attentive reader of Auericau newspapers i the 25ch day of June had arvived beiore te Uist ruwor vl & change which for months had veen un occasional newspaper topic arresied his aventtou. He says, “it would be linpossivle for any diplomatic ageut to believe himseif as more thorouguly possessiug te coulldeuce of tne government Lian ne supposed Dimseif to enjoy at thut momeut,’’ and taat “20 shadow of a duierence of opinion existed bevween the President and his government and himself ag | to our refations with Great Britain.’ | It is not forme to question tie measure of Mi. | 3 appreciation fis position in che coutl. dence of his goverument; but 1 cannot accept tus statement that no shadow of a difference of opiaion existed between the President and his yoverament and himsell as to vur relations 10 Great Britain, Mr. Motiey was appolated Miuister to the Court of St. James in April, is69, under the Impresstoa uf an entire agreement oo his part with tne resi ient as to our rejauens with Great Britain, and with the contident expectation that if aay aiderence migat ex'st Or siiouid arise the Minister would accept and represent the views, Opinions aud policy of the goverument und-r walsh he ued nis ower, Shortly after nis appointment, and before ne left the country for his post of auty, it became apparent that upon & question of contio.ling inter estat that moment occupying tie attention of whe thougntful and the prudent to resirain tue passions which had been excived by eloquent declamation and powerful rhetoric, Mr. Moley accepted the views upou which popular excitewent iad been 8. muiated and wrought to the verge of dangerous friltauion rather than those which the President decmed to be sound and dased upon the true princi- jes 01 pubic law. Witi much evideut study and javor ne prepared an elaborate “‘memolr,” aud sud- miited it as his views upon the questions at issue ve- tweeu the two goverainents, and as the genera! (enor i i | of the instructions which he would desire vo receive. | It was ¢. ed In the felicitous and captivating style which has given Mr, Motiey so uisiiuguisbed @ position ia the World of levers; but it was wuitten with a fuil impression of the views presented 17 a then revent devate in the Senate, and abounded tn forcible expressions and stroas epiviets and .erms | of denunciation not appropiate to tue calin discus | sion of a grave international difference, and little | calculated to allay existing excitement or Irritation, or to induce her Majesty's goverainent to ieud a pi tient ear to the piesentation of the American case. | Beyoud the objection to its general tone and style of expression, ints paper appeared to the President to be objectionable in other respects. it ussumed to state whaz had passed in the Senate tu its secrer ses- sion and the motives which had actuated tie meu. | bers of that body. It has always been held that the | debates in elihcr house of Congress, like the com- | munications of the Presiden: to eliher of thuse | bodies, are not subjects ior discussion with foreign Powers, Upon them goverumeut does not aliow itself to be interrogated. They are purely internal and deliberativ , and are the privileged tuterciuuge of views and oplaions between parties charged with and engaged in the formation of the aggregated and Ouicial expression of the public will, wiih which aione foreign Powers are permittea to enter into discuss.on. 1'o have laid beiore one of those vowers the action of the Senate other than is ual judg- ment, or to fave undertaken to exp.ain tue motives leading to that judgment, would have been an unaatiorized assumpuon, inconsistent | with the independence of wnat body and with | respect une to it. Again, Mr, Motiey’s ‘memoir,’ if adopted, would have assumed to express the views of the President upon the Main questions at issue, Whereas the President thought it wise aud in the loterest of peace und of the future amicabie set- tlement of those grave questions to postpone any presentation of his views upon the malu issue be- Yond tuose which were subsequeutiy expressed tn the instructions of May 15, 186y, uutit the passions which had been aroused in England by the rejection of the treaty and by the leading speeth made upon 't had exhausted themselve: ‘here was nothing exceptionable in the manner in which these views of Mr. Motley were brought to the notice of the government, nor any undue tenacity exhibited in their maintenance. He pre- sented them in an acceptable furm and manner, irce from any obtrusiveness or forwardness. They were carelully considered and were thougnt to be neitaer sound nor poutic, His iustructions were framed in a diferent view of right aud dutics in- volved In the guestion upon whica the two yovera- ments were at issue. It was not doubi whea he lett the United States for bis post that be would cordialiy accept and carry out the views of his government acco:ding to those instruc- tions, even Wien they differed from th waich he himseli entertained. That such was the duty of a pubic Minister deputed to represeat pis govern- meat there will be none to question. That such was not his course must be admitted by every candid and pees person who compares his justructions dated May 15, 1869, with his despatch, No. 8, giviag the account of his toterview win tie Karl of Clarendon on the 10th of June of that year. The tone, temper and iauguage of the instruc: tions were conviliatory. — Their object was to postpone discussion tf avoid tur. | President “recognized the might of | aud momations of thor {rritation. ‘This government had rejected Ube convertion that hal been negoisied and had refused the mode snd measure of rea.oss ‘hich Great Britain had Laoy pit to ance 6 A PaRERpMOnS cieanboinimens a urcitation were man. Les! in that country whidi the President thoughs shoul be allowed to subsids be.ore the two gov.rn- Ments could resume the divcussion wth a reasona- bie expectation of an amicable and satisfactory Bo lution. He therefore net un'y abstained most cau- tiously trom any irritating expressions, but a so froin & discussion of the uwin issue. Keasuns were assigned why the rejectal convention had not roved satis uctory withoui ei. tering into argu nent. | ‘ne positive msirncl ons to Me, Motiey as to what lhe must say were Ilimited fo two points :— First—He was directed to say to Lord Olurendon that this government, in rejecting the recent con- Veution, abandoned neillber its own claims nor Viose of its citizens, nor tae hope of an cariy, satis- fucwory and friendly setyement of the ques..ons pen'ling betwee. the twogoveruments, Second—He wae further mustructed that, in his pri- vate and social tntercourvé, as Weill a8 1p Dis olllcal | Conversations, When It shoal. become necessary, he | should place the cause of greivancve 01 te United | States agalnst Great Britail not so much upon her issuance of the ftecoguiticn of the insurgents? state | Of War as u)on her condyct under and subsequent to such recognition, It was left aisorewonary with Mr. Motley to touch pon Cie Other points refrred to ta bis instruc. tons, and it certaiuly was not contemplated or ex- pecied that ue would gt beyond the cautiously | guarded expression of thal bap Ar. A main poiut of dine:eice between the views of the President and those ulvanced ta oir, Motiey’s “memo? wis In connedivn with the amouut of Atress {0 be Jaia upon thetime, the manuer and the Tightfuiness,'as a measurtustitied by public law, of the concession of bellgereucy to the imsur- ents of the South jy Great Britain, The | resident held, in accrrdance with ‘he doc trine of the best wriers upon interuattoaal — law and with the precelents of our own history, and as a logical result (rom the fact of natioual Sovereignty, that it ia tle rigat of every Power, When @ Civil conflict ts n within another State, and has obtained a suiuicieat complexity, agnitude and compiete.css, by deune its own rela | tions and those of tts citgeas and subjects toward the parties to the conilicy so fur ay thelr righis und | in erests are nevossarily afected by it, Mr. Mouey ‘Was insiructed that suck were the Presideut's Views: which he was to present it ke re.erred | to this point in te yuesiion, and that | while the President regarded the necessity | and tho propriety of the @igiaal concession of bel- ligeceney by Great Brical) us “Quesuonanie,”’ he re- | garded that concession t Bok of the case only so Jar as It suows the besinxiug and the animus ot that course of conduct Wlichrest.ted so disastruusly to the United States. It wis tinpertant, nut se much in itseli, but in that it 1oreshadowed sudsequent event. Tuai it was notw ve treated a8 the giava- men oO. the complaint ti mstructions made more Clear by their reference je the Lact tuat tuere were Other Powers that wole coniemporan<ous with | Great iritain in simusr Concessions, out that in { England ony had the oncession beeu iollowed by acts reoulliug 1n dire’ dumage to tue United Staves. Mr. Motley vas expressly tnstiucted, | io his social ani private —_ intercoures and couversatiou, a3 Wel a3 When LL might become Recessacy 60 dO 80 Officudly, t) AUOpt tuese views of ‘the Presideat, He was ‘equcsied in Nis soctal tater- | cvurse Wilh represeatatves oO. oluer Powers which | hau made suniar recoznit.en, to let (hess nuder- | BSiand (hat tie Uniteu stiles made sach recogn tlon | by them no ground of cemplaint, Tiss was regard. | less of the Que or Of aly supposed prematurity of | such recognition. Mr. Moey's despatch >f the 12th of June, already © relerced tu, shows gow hetuitited tue trast com- mutted to him. Toe dderuimatioa of this govera- Ment not to abandon ils Claims Nor those of 1s cill- zens was stated purentheiicaliy and in such & suvordiuate way hot necessarily to a.ract the attention of Lord Clarendon, and im- sloud of @xpress.ng the hope entertained by this government, tnai there would ve au eariy, satisiactory and ireudly settlement Ot tae questions at issue, he vulunteere. the unnecessary, and, from tne manner m whica twas yiven, the higily ob,ec- Tionabie statement thai tue United Stutes govern- meut had no tusidious purposes; and, i violauea of | the spirit of 3 instructions, he confessed to & despundent feeang souetives as to the posstutlity ; ol tue two nations ever understanding each other, | anu of the difticuliy at iis present moment of their lovkipg tuto eaca othei's nezrts. He repeats almost in tae identical words jhe strong expressions, vojec- laves aad expietives, we stingias alilusious auo the | cutliog Ovservations, Vbica dud been submited In bis emoir,’’ rejected by Luis department, aud none of which were authorised by bis instruc.ions. He said that he had been Mstructed to give tae 1easo 18 wus, mm tue opinion ¢ tue President, tue treaty Signed on the 14in Jantary last had been rejected, Wile no such astructions had been given hia. He voiunteered the inioramiton that tue reyection of tue conveauon Was het inthe slightest degree an ailair of parcy. He taiked of the gravity of te occasioa, of tne burning questbus Of grievances that must coutinue to rankiv anc fester, of Wounds that must be proved, of te interbity Of Opinion, &c. ‘ihe whole Toue Of Wuese remarks Was in euulre Variauce wilh the tone and spirit of his instructions. alure wan once he weni to the very verge of admissavle dipio- Malic BugZesHoN IM aludans, Without any auihority | 4n bis lusiructions for such uinatory or threatening | lutimations, to the cutingencies which would de- Peud oa negotiations couceruing suca vital ques luns; Luat the Presideit cudcurred in the activa of he Senate not becaust he wished or hoped ior War or uafriendly relations; that he wisbed 4 v1iet pauce in the nego iaiious bepre oace more culily review- ing the situation and buking the issues beiween the couatries, with all their diticu tes, daugers and con. | Un.eucies, steadily im ineface. Tue contingencies of war or peace! Neitber tue letter nor the spiritol his instructions author.zed such expressivns, with | whicu his remarks abounded; much less did a3 in- BIruchOus or ie proprievies Of We v-Casion or the fee tgs of Che President jususy bs reyeated allu- 810u8 to the Contingency or to the po siotity of war. | It isa grave responsibility for @ muaisier to as- sume to inuumate to the government to wuich ne Is accredited tue contingelcies of War, Nauious have been dragged into war by indiscret.ons less (la- grant tan those of Mr. Mouey. He assumed a responsibillly beyond the proprieties of his trust. lustead of saying what He nad been authorized to | Say 1 relativu to Lhe Concession Of beiligerency Mr. Mouey iniormed the Karl of Clarendoa that tue @ syvereiga Power bo issue prociamations Ol neutrality be.ween an insurvent pordon oO: a nation and the tawiul gov. ernmeat when such tasurrection sho.id dave galued the necessary magnitude, consisteucy, extent 0: or- | ganized power aud prooabuity of success; but that Buck Measures Must always be takea with @ full view of the grave responsibilities assumed.” He Was not insirucied to threatea Great Brita or to refer tv her responsivilities, It is res rved to the President to decide when iutimatioas of couse- quences or aiiusions to the responsibiuties of other Poweis shall be wuuered, 40 Mr. Motley he had commuted ho discretion in such delicate matters, Mr. Motley had been wuthorized to say that the President regarded the concession of neutrality us a part of tue case only so far us tt shows the veginnivg aud tue Quimnus of that course of couduct waich resulted so Gisastrously to tne United States, Mr. Motley characterized this concessivn in tus interview with Lord Clarendon us “the fountain uead of the disas , ters Which had been caused to the Aimerican people, both individually and collectively, by the hands of Englishmen,” and he added tat “irom Great Lritala alone had there come a loug series of deeds lnjurious to the United states us we fruits of tue prociamation.”” Well might he say, as he did ina Subsequent despatcn, On the Lot July, 1809, that he had gone ‘“beyoud the strict letier of his instruc- tions.’ He migit have added, in direct opposition to their temper and spirit. Jt may be said by some that what Mr. Motley ex- | Pressed Was true, de, however, was nob ustrucied or authorize to say it The puvuc representauve of a government faiis in his duty aad does it wroug Wien he uses in its behalf language unautuorized, or Waeu he uiters in its name opiaions and thoughts which posstuly his gov ent way entertain, Lut has uot ihought it expe lent or proper to express. | Mauy (if not the mos:) of these extreme expressions consequeuces, aud the proul- nence given and stress laid upon the concessivu of belligerency were iu the “memoir” wasch had boon Subiuitted to Mr. Mouey, ie was therefore fully apprised that the goverament had refused to sanc- | tion what, in lus nterview with Lord Clarenuon, | he deiiberately expressed. ‘That he wat in its mind | at that interview as a guide somedsing else thin nis | letter of instructious from this departinent would appear to be evident, wuen he says that he “cailed his Lordship’s aitenuon to your (my) very judicious suggesuion that toe throwing tle dice ior umpire might orivg about opposite decisions,” — ‘Ihe Insiractions waica Mr, Motley received frum mo cvutained no saggestion avout “throw- ing the dice.” That idea 1s embraced in | ‘the suggestive words “aeatory process’’ adopted by Mr. Motley, but previously appiled ta a specch made in the Sevate on tue quesuon of ratifying tae treaty. Mr. Motley’s despatch of the 12th of Juue, 106) | Was received at the Department of State on Up 23d of June. The deparcment did not thea Know tat it | had been submitted ior vertivatioa to the mspec- | tion of her Majesty's pitnoipal secreiary of State for Foren Affairs. Such sub- mission 18 not imeconsistent with diplomatic usage; bub i ty inconsistent In the duiy of a} Minister reporting an important interview, when | he has thus subinitted his report for verification, not Lo Iniorm is government of that subiatssion, Mr. dotley submitted the dratt of lis despatch, No. 8, to Lord Ciarenion, and fatied to communicate the fact to his government. ‘Tne discrepaucy between | what Mr. Motey Had been enirusted or authorized to say and what fe did say dia not fall to atiract | awentivn, and a memorandum was made at ihe time tor the purpose of criticism at least. ‘There were es,eciat and peculiar reasons why the government desired to be Kind to Mr. Mouey. His high reputation in the Held of letters, his recog. nized general intelligence, his unquestioned purity of character and his personal familiarity with mauy | Prowninent persons in official Ie in Great Britain | had secured for his desigaa: ton to the post to which he was fliting a considerable amount of popular ap- Provai, a8 Was tien hope woud comimand conf- dence in Great Britain. There were ovier reasons peculiar to himse.f which suggested the avoidance of sharp criticism. ‘The earnest (one of the “memoir! | which he had offered as tne busts of his instructions was remembered and was ri nized in his narrative of the interview with Lord Clarendon. Ih was thought not improvable that his lunguage in that interview had been strongly pro- | Dounced, and more in accordance With the Lone and letter of his instracuons tuan appeared from his despaten; that in attempting to Tecord what he Nad actually suid the tenaciiy of memury and addes | rence to previously expressed opinion interpoiwied Much 0: What he had written im his “inemolr” with | Uat which he had said to Lord Clarendon. Tae | Government sounht excuses and desired to avoid & rebuke, and devwrmined to overlook \ of bis Urst edort on the subject, of the rignt of any | completion ' dey | Was tiarked all that ft oonld overtook in his case, 1 appeared from his despatch that he had already recei\ed a check from Lord Clarendon when in ung! midst of his depar.ure from his iustraciions as the Preside..t's view of the coucession of bellige- rency. He was arrested by the remark thatif the Subject was to be discussed it must be discussed from ‘he bottom aud thoroughly, ‘The British gov- ernmeut had accepied tie propriety of ihe Presl- dent's suggestion (0 temporarily suspend the nego- fiations, and no special exception had been openly taken to the tone or meaning tu which Mr. Motley had prese: ted himself, Tois afforded the President ao opportuaity to prevent al further misappre- heusion of his views through Mr, Motley by tuking from tim the right to discuss further the Alabama claims. In the spirit of kindness and tender consideration for tue feelings of Mr. Mouey, my despatch of the oth of Jun, 186), quoted at tench (aud in the malo accurately, thougu under the date of ihe 20th , of June, im the paper now under consideration), was written, The desire to avoid criticism and to save his feelings may have been carried too sar in that despatch; but it Was at the time thought thas the witudcawal from Mr. Motiey, upon the receipt further discussion of the only very mmportant or diticult question at the time pending between the two governineais, would be regarded by a sensitive gentleman who had devoted so much time and labor W his “inission” on that question a 60 severe & rebuke and so practical a proof of Want of conf. dence that kind words in the generalities of the despaica might be indulged. It was not uatil more than fortnight after the receipt of Mr. Motley of tne despatcn prohloinag his further discnssioa Of these quostions that he wrote to the\department tuforming it that bis No. 8 01 the 12th of June, bad been submitted for veritica- tion to Lord Clarendon belore its transmission to his own goverument, Had that submission been known at the dats of my ucknowledsmeat, on the ¢ 28th of June, of his stavement, tt canuot be douvted that a very diferent repiy would have been made, ‘Tue tardy report of this Luportant fact was received hers On the 4th of August, when f was ou a visit for only one day to Wasaington during a temporary Vacalon, and the des,atch Was not brought to my notice. The Knowl-dge oi it did not reach me until October, when the Presideut was informed that Mr. Motiey bad withheld tuis 1mportant 126 / until alter he had obtatued the acknowledgmeu' | drom the Earl of Clarendon, It may be unayined that the President's coulidenve and his respec. ior luis Muuister ad 1.0% remain as they bad beeu. From that time it was lmpossib e that he snould remain as the representative of tue yoverument louger thea , the exivencies ol the puvlic service as to tue other matters speciaily committed to his charge migit re quue, Provavly nis public employmen:s wou.d then have insianily ceased vut tor cous.deratious sented to the President, paruy of a p.rsunul nature with respect to Mr. Motley, but more especially as to .egutiutions taen pendiug for the compietion of the Natural.zutiou Couvention, for @ Cousuiar Con- vention and as Lo other iatters tued in discussion beviveen the two governments, . Wituout viwolauug auy Coutidence, J am guite justl- fled in usserting that irow Uciover of last yoar unul the day when luis successor Was nontinates to the Seuate Mr. Motley's retention in bis pusition was with tue reluctant approval of the Presideut and wito his irequentiy deciared intention to name & successor at no distant day. Tue witudrawai of ull rigut to discuss the Alabama questio , on Waich he bad manifested an absence of sympathy wih the President aud ol Wilin ness to represent te views of the gavernment, leit no room for furtuer uisakeg. Ou that quesuon, and, as he had upon eutering on his uussion been entrusted =with =the of the Naturalization Convei tion and with we nesouation of a Con- sular treaty, on botn of wuich he was then acuvely engaged, ze President was incuued te allow him to compiete at leust one of inese before his recail. The Naturalizauion Couveution was signed vy Mr. Motley Ou the i3th of May last, was received bere ia tue tater part of that mona, was immediately sent ty the Seuate, and was under col Bideration by that Lody tu the ia'ter days of Ju last. ‘fue Consular Convention promised a more rotracied negot ation, Vo the z7ta of June last Pord Oia endo uted. Congress Was then drawing” Ite session to a close. ‘The Prestucnt has never failed to desire the @ariiest possivle ugjusiment” of tne “alabama qQieston.’”” an Septemver, 1569, befure the kuow- Jedge of the sudinission of Mr. Motie;’s despatch of June 1. to Lord Ciarendea came to me, Ae. siotley had been iasiructed .o express lo ber Majesiy’a government ihe readiness of the United states te @uier imtoy the consderation of the question, the death o1 tae British minister tor Foreign Aifairs sug- Rested tie possibiLty of advancing a setuenens under the successor of the deceased statesman, either by resiori ng the discussion of the question to the American Alunisier im Loudon, or through his agency 10 advaucin: its prosecution tu Washiigven. Tue cordial aud sympathetic co operativn of the American Mini ter Was necessary for the realization Oo any hope in tuat direction, However able wud faitaiui Mr. Motey may have shown him. Bel va Oller quesiluns, It had beea demonstrated that tae Pres:deut could not ro.y upon his co-opera- tion to the live Of his views aud bls policy ou this great queston. When the tateligence of Lord Clar- eudou’s death reacued here (Juue 27) Congress was. near its ad ourument. fhe day jor the final ad- journment bad beea indicated as the 15th of July. ‘The opportunity for a renewal of negot avons might | Arise beiore the Senate would again couveue 1 De- cemver, It was ivreseen that a new Minister Would naiuraily hesitate to euter upon 60 importint a position without having been cone firmed by the Senate, Would have less coufldence in bis position and would speak with less autoority should be go avroad without having recelved (ue assent of the Seuate toms sppoiutineat, It seemed that any supposed reasons for ihe foirtner re.eution of Mr. Mot.e/ suould yieid to the more important pubuc cunsideration of having a representa live im sympathy with we Presidents views who coud take advantage of any dispo sition to renew the discussion of the Alabang question, Conse,ucnily, on the Ist of July, Liree days a.ter the death of Lord Clarendon, by the Presideut § uirection | addressed to Mr. Mote ley the lever of that date, guoted in mis paper, inforimiag nin Wat the President found it desirabie to make a change in tue mission, aud wished to allow him an oppertuatty to resign. la view o: the importance or having tae nomination of Mr, Mut- 8 successor Cuniirmed by the Sevate beiore tts adjourument I seat a ‘cable despatch om tue Leth of day requesting an answer te my letter of tie Ist of July. No question was eutertuined that Mr. Mote, would have felt it bis duty ou te iirst and .#ntest suggestion that a change was desired to hasten to piace taat resigna- tion in we Presideut’s pauds. in fact, 1 regarded my messase of the iZth vs superiluous, not doubiag Mr. Motivy would, without any over suggesiium than his Own seuse of propriety an] his ayprecia- vn of the relations of & Alister to tbe President, have resorted io the telegraph instantly on the ree velpt of the letter, 1 sent tue despatch Only because of the immMinence oO. the adjournment of We senate, He ubundante caute a. Mr. Motlcy’s comission expressed on its face that he was to hold his oillce during the pleasure of the President, Lo his paper he expresses the Opiuion that dad @ change beeu coutemplated he silould have 0220 privately taturmel Oo 1, He was tous lulovmed befure the pubic Was iniormed, and beiore there were any oiler tian speculative ane Rouncements, suck aS had frequaaily betore ap- peared lo the public prints wita respect to himself, fund such ws bad for months formed we aimost datly staple of newspaper gossip with respect to. na other yg .utiemen* of high position. He thinks that he should have been ap- prisea of the reasous coupied with “an acknowledg- ment that be had been zealous aad faithiul” Cannot admit (hat be had toe rigut to require of the | President the assignineat of his reasons fur the exer- cise of one Of hls Constitiuional prerogatives, Lor to make ters wii the President vy demanaing from hiw an acknowledgmnt of his zeal and deity. That accnoWiedgment ts O1eu made on the acceptance @ resignation {row an olllcer Who Las proved zealous and iaiuiful, aud then i 1s significant and courpitinentary. i fall, Aowever, to appreciate the Vaiue of such ackooWlcuginedt exact_d as a condl tion succedent of restyuation. He iurther says, Qs Inan dis a rigut to doubt, wat “in such a case £ Wou.d have at vuce oilered iy resiguatioa.” ihe cases Lave becu humerous throug vue whole his- tory of tae govcrament of genvicinen of high char- acter aud ilelisence aud Of unjuesiioned Mtegrity Tesigniug High posiltous on tue Simple indicauvn of the desire of the President; but Mr. Moiley, astuough Fequesied, «did not sve Hi to resiga. Ua the J4th of July, the day before the Senate was to adjourn, ue taegrapuet vecuuing to do sv. ‘ae Nomination of His successor wus sent to Lue Senate that ssid day. OA that day also he wrote @ lever to me, waica 13 set forth wat length. “substantially, bui not euuely as written” in ius payer. This letver “private,” although that designation ig omitteu in the Copy iw his paper, doubticss through luadveriance. The omission becomes lu ortault, however, slice he states, somewnas m the form of complaint, that iw has never been acknowiedged. It 1s as weil, tuerefore, to tote this character of his levter, assigned to te by himsell, and to state iurmer that it was noi written @3 a despa.ch, Was not numvuered, and was noi ia the forum of ab Odicial paper Lo tuts ietter he Bveaks of his uppomiment, with, he Lelleves, the Unanimous Consent of Lue Senate, iknow hot air, Moticy's sources of information of the procecdings vi the Senate in their HL 5@s~ sion, iD Which alone uuMmiuatious Jor oive are cou. sidered. He reiers to these secret proceedings wita @n appareni Coniidence thas suggesia more lutimacy With tue executive procecdin4s O. that vouy tsa 1s aliowed by iis rales ww those who are not wein- bers. ‘The tnjuncton of secrecy lay not been re- moved freui tue proceeuings of the Senate on Mr, Motiey’s contirmation, Yossibly he relies on Outside rumors, Witch certainly were current, that the Con-ent of the senate had been uuanimeus. My coifidence anu appreciation vi the body leads me to concur in wr. Mouey’s beet Rumor, Lowever, @lsu says that upon the quesuon of his recall the benate approached nearly to tne same dezree of unanunity, that only tures voles were recorded Against his recall, and thay among the three go vot Mus Was not tue “emiment Seuator,” with whose namehe subsequeatly sveas to identuy the cause of that recall, On the quesuon of Lis appointment and On that of his recall, tuereiore, tue Senate was neariy or entirely Unanimous in 1ts Concurreuce with the President. Mr. hvtiey says that, so far as he is aware, “no rogwiarly conlrined sitister at this Court (London) has ever been removed by the President who ap- pointed him.’? Possibly’ this may be so. It may uiso be (rue as to some other Gourts tian that of London. ‘there have been, however, frequent tn« Bluiices Of successive Ministers to Loudon as well ag elsewhere appotuted by the same President; but have not examined, and it would ve uuprontapie ta wasie tune in the examination, to ascertain Whether the first of the succession was removed or had resigned, or. in case of a resignat Whether or nyt he hud beon requested go to do. I ? ‘