The undersigned will, however, remark, that when consuls resident in a foreign country are received without express conditions, they must be considered as standinu on the footinu • t, t, established by the common consent of all nations. Custom and usage have ascertained and fixed their immunities, where it has not been done by conventional law; and any infraction of them is justly considered an indignity offered to the country whose commission the consul bears. The undersigned, therefore, m compliance with instuclions, demands reparation to the injured individuals hereinbefore mentioned, and due satisfaction for the insult offered to his Government in the perpetration of the arbitrary and, he trusts, unauthorized acts of the commandant general of the department of Tamaulipas and New Leon. The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to present to his excellency the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs the assurance of his great respect and distinguished consideration.
Powhatan Ellis.
To His Excellency Jose Maria Ortiz Monasterio, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs. [4173) [GOROSTIZA to FORSYTH]
Philadelphia, September 9, 1836. The undersigned, from what he reads in various newspapers, has cause to fear that General Dunlap is engaged in enlisting a considerable number of volunteers in Tennessee, who are to march to Texas under his orders. The Vicksburg Register goes so for as to state that their number already amounts to three thousand, and that they are all armed, having been previously intended for the war in Florida. It is likewise added that they are on the eve of departure for that destination. Although the undersigned believes that this scandalous proceeding, if certain, will have attracted the attention of the attorney of that distTict, he nevertheless thinks proper to denounce it lo the honorable John Forsyth, Secretary of State of these United States, in order that it may be verified opposed, and chastised according to the laws.
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