ln the summer of 1832, the sleamboal Hidalgo ~md schooner Consolation, belonging Lo Aaron Leggill, of New York, were forcibly taken possession of by Mexican officers at Tabasco, and used by them. The brig John, hclonging to Leggett, was also detained, and money was extorted from him. The consequences resulting from these acts are represented to have been ruinous to the sufferer, and the Mexican Government is clearly bound by the treaty lo indemnify him for them. In Marcil, 1834, Captain McKeige, of the schooner Industry, of Mobile, was imprisoned al Tabasco, and an exorbitant fine demanded of him without cause. The payment of the fine 'being made the only condition upon which he could be allowed lo depart, he abandoned his vessel and her cargo to the authorities, who afterwards sold them. In the summer of I 834, the brig Pcragon, of New York, was causelessly fired into on her way to Vera Cruz by the !Vlexican public armed schooner Tampico. 1n answer to an official representation on the subject by Mr. Butler, that Government promised that the affair should be inquired into; but Lhis deparlmenl is not informed that the promise has been fulfilled. In the beginning of May, last year, the answer of officers supposed to belong to the custom-house, who boarded the brig Ophir, of New York, on her arrival at Campeachy, to an inquiry of the captain as lo which of the ship's papers it would be necessary to present at the custom-house, was accidentally, or intentionally, misinterpreted. In consequence of this, notwithstanding all the papers were shown to the boarding officers, the invoices only being exhibited at the custom-house, the vessel was seized and condemned. In May, l835, also, the schooner Martha, from New Orleans, was seized at Galveston bay by the Mexican armed schooner Montezuma for an alleged non-compliance with some of the formalities of their revenue Jaws. Four of the passengers of the '.\fartha were put in irons under the hatches of the Montezuma, and otherwise treated with great barbarity, merely for an imputed intention lo use their fire-arms against a guard that had been placed on board the Martha. In November, 1835, the schooner Hannah and Elizabeth, of New Orleans, was stranded in attempting lo enter Matagorda bay. While in this condition, she was fired into by the Mexican
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