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of Nica.- With Your Signature and seal, the said document will have all the Desideratum. You would oblige me very much, if you could df:spatch the bearer of this at an early hour, and I expect to see you personally before long in order to tender You my best thanks for Your kind Services-Here is nothing new. Respectfully Your obdt Svt Dr. FRANCIS SEYDEL
No. 2763. JAMES THOl\fAS TO LA1iAR
Granada :i\fay 26 1859.
MY DEAR GENER.AL,
I [ f] you should have received any letters for me to your care by the last mail please to give them to the bearer of this, who I have sent as a special courier to Realejo- · If you should not be too much occupied with your official duties I should be very glad to get a line from you in reply to this letting me know what you are about & what the political prospects ahead are. I send you the Central America(n which contains an article abusing you and your goYerment, the which if you think it worth your while you can get some one to translate Truly your Friend Gen.I M B Lamar Realejo- JAMES THOMAS No. 2764. LAMAR TO THE GOVERNOR OF PUNTA ARENAS [Puntas Arenas? Costa Rica? June 7? 18591 To His Excellency The Governor of Punta-Arenas Sm I have been informed that Your Excellency has forbid all commu- nication between the prisoner Mr Edwd. F. Conway and his friends;· and that Your Excellency has also re1used the prisoner an Interpreter,. although Your Excellency well knows that he is not able to consult with his Lawyer without one. By these measures the accused is de- prived of the natural as well as legal right of procuring testimony in his own behalf and preparing for his defense. To interdict his con- sulting with any one, except with, an individual whose language he cannot speak looks like the mockery of justice.- The placing of double-irons upon the prisoner by order of your Excellence is also con- sidered a cruel precaution without any necessity for it. I am assured by respectable authority that all these acts are contrary to the laws of this Republic; and that Your Excellency has no right to interfere in any manner between the prisoner and the Tribunals that have to try him. The prisoner is in the custody of the Court ; and the Court alone can prescribe the treatment he shall receive-and even that authority can not do it arbitrarily, but only in accordance with law. I speak of the law as it is expounded to me, and if its character is such as I rep- resent it, I would respectfully request Your Excellency to reconsider the orders alluded to and to allow the prisoner to be visited by such of his friends as he may desire to consult. This is the practice of all civilized nations. I would also suggest the propriety of allowing the
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