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The Secretary of State to Don A. Culderon de la Barca.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, June 7, 1850. The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to transmit herewith to Don A. Calderon de la Barca, for information, a copy of the answer of the United States district attorney of Dela. ware to the instructions sent to him on the 3d instant from this department, together with a copy of the letter of the Spanish vice consul at Philadelphia, to Don A. Calderon.

The undersigned reiterates to Don A. Calderon de la Barca the assurances he has heretofore given, that this government will continue to use its best efforts to suppress all illegal expeditions for the invasion of Spanish territory; and that, in all cases in which sufficient evidence can be collected to convict any one having been engaged in such an expedi tion, a prosecution will be immediately commenced against him.

The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to renew to Don A. Calderon de la Barca assurances of his distinguished consideration. JOHN M. CLAYTON.

Don A. CALDERON DE LA BARCA, &c., &c., &c.

P. Sheward Johnson, U. S. District Attorney, Delaware, to Hon. John M.

Clayton.

WILMINGTON, June 4, 1850.:

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SIR: I have received your note of the 3d instant, instructing me use all vigilance and energy in frustrating any attempts, which may be made in my district, to violate the act of 20th April, 1818, and bring to trial any persons engaged in such attempts, and also a copy of the note from M. Charon to Don A. Calderon de la Barca, containing the information that there are about one hundred persons in this district preparing a hostile expedition against the island of Cuba. I have already taken measures to discover these persons and frustrate their design, but have not hitherto seen the slightest ground to suspect any such movement as is referred to in the note of the Spanish vice-consul. I have put the marshal of the district on the alert, and shall proceed to Lewistown myself to-morrow; at which place I think it most likely the schooner Enterprise would be found, if in the district at all.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

P. SHEWARD JOHNSON, United States District Attorney, Delaware.

Hon. JOHN M. CLAYTON,
Secretary of State.

Mr. Calderon to Mr. Clayton.

[Translation.]

WASHINGTON, June 7, 1850.

The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty, had the honor of receiving on the 5th inst., at twelve o'clock, the communication which, under date of the 3d inst., was sent to him by the Hon. Secretary of State.

In it the Hon. John M. Clayton makes known to him the lively interest which he feels in the fate of the prisoners taken at Contoy and carried to Havana, and his anxious desire that, in consequence of this arrest, no difficulties may arise between our respective countries. The Hon. Secretary of State explains to the undersigned the views of his Excellency the President of the United States upon this subject, and terminates by expressing his desire that the undersigned may make known these views to his government, and may interfere in case the lives of the individuals alluded to should become placed in jeopardy.

The undersigned has the honor to repeat, in writing, the summary of that which he has already frankly and loyally declared verbally to the Hon. Secretary of State:

1. That, as yet, he has no circumstantial information in regard to the occurrence in question.

2. That he will, by the first opportunity, forward a copy of the note of the Hon. Secretary of State to her Majesty's government, and also to the Captain General of the island of Cuba, by the steamer Isabel, which leaves Charleston on the 15th of this month-there being an actual impossibility of doing so sooner, of which Mr. Clayton is aware.

3. That this is all which he has it in his power to do-having no authority to trace out any line of conduct to the Count of Alcoy.

4. That, knowing the generous sentiments and lofty mind of that illustrious general, he has no doubt that he will take all the circumstances of "the case into consideration, and will use no further severity than may be required for the public satisfaction, and for the security of those dominions of her Majesty confided to his care.

Meanwhile it is to be remembered that these persons made part of an expedition fitted out in the United States with the intention of invading Cuba, burning and sacking her cities, plundering and murdering her inhabitants, and committing every act which could put them in the rank of baccaneers and pirates, and, as such, entitled to the protection of no government, but worthy only of the execration of mankind.

They have-and with reason-been called pirates by the government of the United States. If, now, these persons are considered as American citizens and entitled to its protection, it will be but just, on the other hand, that that government should be ready to make ample indemnity to the Spanish government for the damages and expenses which these forming part of the expedition have caused, or shall cause them in future. This justice the undersigned formally claims, and confidently hopes to obtain.

He is not less animated than the Hon. Secretary of State with a lively desire that the friendly relations subsisting between both governments

should not be affected, nor would he feel less deeply so deplorable an event which he flatters himself is far, very far, from being verified.

The undersigned profits by this occasion to renew to the Hon. John M. Clayton the assurances of his distinguished consideration.

A CALDERON DE LA BARCA.

To the Hon. JOHN M. CLAYTON,
Secretary of State, &c., &c., &c.

Mr. Calderon to Mr. Clayton.

[Translation.]

SPANISH LEGATION IN WASHINGTON,

June 14, 1850.

The undersigned, in compliance with his duty, and in pursuance of the agreement entered into with the Honorable Secretary of State of the United States, to inform him of whatever may transpire in regard to the expeditions against Cuba, encloses him the abstract of a communication he has received from the Spanish consul in New Orleans; from which it appears that those who have formed the wicked determination of disturb. ing the tranquillity of the island of Cuba are far from having abandoned their designs.

Notices of this determination have also reached the Count of Alcoy, as the undersigned has again been informed through despatches he has just received by the steamer Isabel, which left Havana on the 8th instant.

The undersigned entertains no doubt but that the Honorable Secretary of State will take this intelligence into consideration, and endeavor to ascertain the fact, in order that, upon being apprized of it, his Excellency the President of the republic may, in the plenitude of his well known uprightness, good faith, and wisdom, adopt such measures as he may deem proper, in order to prevent the crime of a new invasion of the territory of a friendly nation, with which the republic is at peace, and culti vates relations of friendship and good understanding.

The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to renew to the Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, the assurances of his most distinguished consideration.

Hon. JOHN M. CLAYTON,

A. CALDERON DE LA BARCA.

Secretary of State.

Abstract of a communication from the Spanish consul ad interim in New Orleans, dated June 3, 1850.

[Translation]

The pirates and abettors do not appear to have become discouraged in the prosecution of their ominous schemes, but are still making fresh enlistments, circulating false notices to give an air of plausibility to their

intentions, and using every endeavor to make people believe that their nefarious projects. will yet succeed. Some of them, ten in number, assembled on the night of the 1st, and thinking that they were about to achieve something of great importance, they tore off the sign or inscription from the door of the consulate, upon which the office was designated, both in English and in Spanish; and some of them even said that they would catch the consul by the neck and throttle him.

There are now in the city two or three individuals whom I have known as being employed in enticing people to enlist, who are styled Fillmore's Rangers, and the recruiting agents carry in their hats the rolls of enlistment, with the proposals for bounty scrip which they tender to those whom they succeed in enlisting. I have good reasons to hope that I shall be able to detect one or several of these recruiting agents; and upon my doing so, I shall proceed against them through the medium of the district attorney.

Yesterday evening there came into port a vessel with S4 individuals on board, brought hither as passengers from Chagres, and who have sailed either from Key West or some other spot in these latitudes; they are, however, a part of the invading expedition, who are returning sick and starving.

Judging from what is said in most of the newspapers, and the reports that are spread about by the seditiously inclined, a second expedition is about to start, with a view of making a simultaneous demonstration upon two or three points of the island of Cuba at once. According to these accounts, those who will participate in this second rash attempt will amount to more than three thousand men. I have no reason to believe, however, that the attempt will positively be made...

Mr. Calderon to Mr. Clayton.

[Translation.]

SPANISH LEGATION IN WASHINGTON,

June 24, 1850.

The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty, begs leave to communicate to the Honorable Secretary of State of the United States the following intelligence which he has just received from persons of distinction and worthy of credence in New York.

There are actually living in that city, among other characters of the same description, two natives of Havana, who formed a part of the piratical expedition against Cardenas, and who boast, without disguise, of having shared in that criminal enterprise.

One of these is T. M. Macias, a member of the committee organized in Washington for the purpose of devising means to carry out the nefarious project; the other is a certain Manuel Hernandez, who received a wound in the thigh in that affair, and who relates in what manner the royal edifices were plundered.

Colonel Carr, accompanied by Captain Harris, has, moreover, remained for several days in the said city of New York, collecting together the

provisions and ammunitions of war which had been deposited on the shore of Long Island. Connected with these there is Captain Bagley, who belonged to the American army in Mexico, and who was to have commanded the third division, which was getting organized in New York for the invasion of Cuba:

Lieutenant Nelson Miller is likewise employed by Colonel Carr, together with two Irishmen, named John Moran and John Dixon, who work under the orders of the aforesaid Captain Bagley, the whole being denominated the commissariat department. All the individuals, without any exceptions, have been occupied within the last few days in collecting the provisions, ammunition, and muskets, which had been procured in New York and stowed away on Long Island, and which had been des tined at one time for the equipment and armament of what they style the third division of the army of expedition against the island of Cuba. The provisions and military stores have been sold for fifteen thousand dollars, which sum has been appropriated to the relief of Lopez and his so-called officers. Miller and Bagley left for New Orleans on the 18th instant, by the land route. The muskets and other arms have been stowed away in a shop in Chatham street, New York

Six days ago there arrived at that port, direct from Key Wes', the steamer "Fanny," which, according to information received at the legation of her Catholic Majesty, was one of the vessels destined to carry reinforcements to Cardenas, in case that the pirates had been able to keep pessession of that place for a few days. The aforesaid steamer is of an extremely suspicious character.

The undersigned' transmits this intelligence from a sense of duty, entertaining no doubt but that the Hon Secretary of State will make such use of it as he may deem most proper to the investigation of the circum stances, and for securing the punishment of these criminal disturbers of the public peace, who are alike the enemies of Spain and of the govern ment of the United States.

The undersigned renews to the Hon. Secretary of State the assurance of his most distinguished consideration.

Hon. JOHN M. CLAYTON,

A. CALDERON DE LA BARCA.

Secretary of State of the United States, &c., &c., &c.

The Secretary of State to Mr. Calderon.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, June 25, 1850.

SIR: I duly received the note you did me the honor to address to me on the 7th, in reply to mine of the 3d instant, in which letter I took occasion to express a deep interest in the fate of those prisoners who had been captured and carried into Havana, and the views entertained by this government upon that subject. The anxiety I expressed in that note, and in the one which followed it the next day, continues to be felt by this gov. ernment. From the contents of your note, now before me, I would fain deduce the hope that the sentiments and wishes of the United States will be respected, as they think they have a right to expect. Certainly the

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