them for their own purposes. The brig John, belonging to the same gentleman, was also detained, and money extorted from him. The consequences resulting from these acts are represented to have been minous to the sufferer; and the l\foxican Government is clearly bound, under the treaty, lo indemnify him for them. In March, 1834, Captain McKeige, of the schooner Industry, of Mobile, was imprisoned at Tabasco, and an exorbitant fine demanded of him without cause. The payment of this fine being made the only condition on which he could be allowed to depart, he abandoned his vessel and cargo to the authorities, who afterwards sold them. In the summer of 1834, the brig Paragon, of New York, was causelessly fired into, on her way to Vera Cruz, by the Mexican armed schooner Tampico. In reply to an official representation on the subject by Mr. Butler, this Government promised that the affair should be inquired into; but there is no evidence that this promise has been complied with. In the beginning of May, last year, the answer of an officer, 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 to 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, 1835, also, the schooner Martha, from New Orleans, was seized at Galveston bay by the Mexican armed schooner Montezuma for an alledged non-compliance with certain formalities of their revenue laws. Four of the passengers of the Martha were put in irons under the hatches of the Montezuma, and otherwise treated with great barbarity, because of an imputed intention to use their fire-arms against a guard that had been placed over them on board the Martha. In November, 1835, the schooner Hannah Elizabeth, of New Orleans, was stranded on the bar in attempting to enter Matagorda bay. While in this condition, she was fired into by the Mexican armed schooner Bravo, boarded by twenty armed soldiers, under the command of two officers, who forcibly took the master, crew, and passengers from the wreck, pillaged them of
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