schooner Correo de Mexico had been liberated in virlue of the habeas-corpus law, and in consequence of an applicalion to tha. effect made by the Mexican consul at New Orleans to the crimina; court, the said individuals were carried back to prison, under an order received by the marshal of the United Stales for that district. In addition to this proceeding, which the acting Secretary of Slale \\ill agree with me in considering arbitrary and Violent, another circumstance occurred of a nature still more aggravating: it was the unexpected imprisonment, at the same time, and as believed, without the slightest reason, of Carlos Ocampo, a lieutenant in the Mexican army. From the official declaration given by this officer under his own hand, to the Mexican consul at New Orleans, it appears that this is not the first act of the same character of which lie had to complain. He distinctly states in that declaration, that a thousand dollars with which he was charged for nalional purposes, together with some documents relating to those objects, and other papers belonging Lo himself, and his baggage, remained in possession of the persons on board the San Felipe; and that afler having stripped him of the said effects and money, and made him suffer from the irons in which they placed him and the others of the crew of the Correo de Mexico, he was told at New Orleans, as he declares, that there was nothing against him, and that he was considered free from all blame. The undersigned is far from believing that the Government of the United Stales can approve this series of arbitrary acts; on the contrary, he is convinced that this enlightened Government will regard such conduct with great displeasure, and will no longer allow such outrages to be committed with impunity. The undersigned does not pretend to anticipate the resolution which the President of the United Stales may take on the subject, nor does he entertain a doubt that it will be, according to the expression of the acting Secretary of State, conformable with justice and with the respect due to the United Mexican States. As those favorable sentiments animate the President of the United States, the undersigned trusts that as soon as his exceUency is acquainted with the conLents of the present note, and with the substance of the aforesaid declaration of the Mexican officer Ocampo, (the most essential part of which is copied in the accompanying paper,) he will order such measures as he may conceive proper to arrest, in the most prompt and honorable manner, these violent and illegal proceedings against the Mexican citizens, now detained in prison at New Orleans, who are part of the crew of the Correo de Mexico, and lieutenant Ocampo, who was a passenger on board that vessel engaged in national
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