complaints of the same lieutenants who supposed themselves aggrieved by my former report. But, in connexion with the same subject, my report contains remarks of a rather inculpatory character upon the conduct of other officers not named nor alluded to in the censures of the three lieutenants, nor in the specification founded on those censures. Without dwelling further on the contents of this report, or its connexion with the one on which alone the specification is founded, I must refer you to the paper itself, as the clearest demonstration how gratuitous and uncalled for is the now attempted, and in part consummated, publication of it. You will see, at a glance, how slight is its bearing upon the matter charged, and that its main object can be no other than to bring me into odium with other persons-of whose conduct, however, I had considerably modified my first opinion, in consequence of better information of their motives.

But, whatever the bearing of the paper on the case, I presume to think that its suppression and recall from any further and more diffusive publi cation is imperatively demanded by every principle of good faith that can be implicitly pledged by the government to individuals.

I am advised by my counsel that the document in question is open to fatal objections to its admissibility as evidence, and that the court would probably throw it out upon the strength of those objections.

But such rejection of it would be neither prevention nor redress of the mischief arising to me from its publication. The production of the paper in open court, and the public discussion of the objections to it, would necessarily carry along a publication of its contents; and such a publication is the only inconvenience I have to apprehend from it. Let its contents be once published, and the parties are welcome to whatever advan tage it can give them as evidence before the court; and I have little doubt my prosecutors, after having surreptitiously got the advantage they seek from its publication, would care as little as I do for any advantage it would give them with the court.

With the assurance that the irregular use now attempted to be made of my report has been attempted without your sanction, or from inadvertency to its claims to be held under the seal of inviolable confidence, I remain, sir, with high respect, your obedient servant,

Hon. Wм. A. GRAHAM,

THOS. AP C. JONES,
Late commanding Pacific Squadron.

Secretary of the Navy, &c., &c.

P. S.-There are certain portions of the report in question, to the publication of which I have intimated my willingness to waive objectionnamely, such portions as refer exclusively to the lieutenants named in the second specification of the 3d charge. I have marked out, on the face of the paper, such passages as I object to, as connecting, either by name or reference, other officers with them.

T. AP C. J.

NATIONAL HOTEL, Washington, January 13, 1851.

SIR: I have just discovered that, in transmitting to the Navy Depart ment the proceedings of the two naval courts-martial by which Lieuten.

ant Fabius Stanly was tried, while attached to the Pacific squadron, lately under my command, I inadvertently omitted to forward the defence of Lieutenant Stanly, which should have been attached to the record of the second court by which that officer was tried. The original defence is herewith enclosed.

I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your obedient servant,

THOS. AP C. JONES,

Late Commander in chief Pacific Squadron.

The Hon. WM. A. GRAHAM,
Secretary of the Navy.

NATIONAL HOTEL, February 5, 1851.

SIR: Owing to the illness of my counsel, I was compelled to throw in my defence upon the court-martial in detached fragments, without preserving a perfect copy: that was particularly the case with my answer to 2d charge.

I respectfully request (at the earliest convenient moment) a copy of that portion of my notes, which occupies but a few pages.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

THOS. AP C. JONES, Late Commanding Pacific Squadron.

Hon. WILL. A. GRAHAM,

Secretary of the Navy.

NATIONAL HOTEL, Washington, February 8, 1851.

SIR: I respectfully request a copy of my letter of the 22d of November, 1850, requesting the honorable Secretary of the Navy to withdraw his name from the charges on which I was then about to be, and since have been, tried by a naval court-martial.

I have the honor to be your obedient servant,

THOS. AP C. JONES,
Late Commanding Pacific Squadron.

Hon. WILL. A. GRAHAM,

Secretary of the Navy.

NATIONAL HOTEL,

Washington, February 11, 1851.

SIR: By the hands of Commander Glynn I send you the proceedings and report of a court of inquiry held in the Pacific squadron, under my order, (A) appended to the proceedings.

I have the honor to be your obedient servant,

The Hon. WILL. A. GRAHAM,

THOS. AP C. JONES, Late Commanding Pacific Squadron.

Secretary of the Navy.

NATIONAL HOTEL, Washington, February 13, 1851.

SIR: Ten days, exclusive of two Sundays, have passed since the adjournment sine die of the naval general court martial by which I was recently tried on charges of the deepest criminal dye; and I am still detained a prisoner, and in ignorance of my sentence. I respectfully request an extension of my limits, to enable me freely to visit my family near Prospect Hill, Virginia, now that I have been discharged from attendance as a witness in the case of Lieutenant Stanly, on trial at the Washington navy yard.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

THOS. AP C. JONES,
Late Commanding Pacific Squadron.

Hon. WILL. A. GRAHAM,

Secretary of the Navy.

NATIONAL HOTEL, February 14, 1851.

SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th instant, in reply to mine of the same date, in reference to the limits of my arrest.

I am not unmindful of the latitude your letter of arrest, dated the 1st of November, 1850, allowed me, nor of your subsequent acquiescence in my own construction of your intentions in that respect. But as soon as the court martial convened, and I reported to the president thereof, at the navy yard, in obedience to the order of arrest, all previous indulgence ceased, and my movements thereafter, during the continuance of the trial, were governed by the court. When the court adjourned sine die, I could not change my locality, consistently with military rules and principles, without authority from the Navy Department. A desire to adhere to rules, and not to abuse the confidence you had reposed in me, dictated my letter of the 13th instant.

Most respectfully, your obedient servant,

THOS. AP. C. JONES, Late Commanding Pacific Squadron.

Hon. WILL. A. GRAHAM,

Secretary of the Navy.