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Oct. 5, 1843. Sen. 1; 2s, 2, p. 21 (Calhoun). Sen. 1; 28,1,pp.30(Thomp — son); 31 (decree); 34 (Upshur). Sen. 390; 28, 1, pp. 13, 18 (Thompson). 52B. E. Green, April 8, 1844. 52Bocanegra to Thompson, Oct. 20, 1843. 52Thompson to Bocanegra, Nov. 23, 1843. 52Shannon to Rejón, Oct. 25, 1844. 52Rejón to Shannon. Oct. 11, 1844; Nov. 22, 1845. Bankhead, nos. 1, 4, 1844. 13Foreign Ofﬁce to Doyle, no. 30, 1843 (While every independent nation has, e.g., an abstract right to close its ports, "the practical assertion on the part of any Nation of an extreme abstract right may, and often does, involve, if not actual hostility, at least a degree of unfriendliness almost amounting to hostility") France also protested (Green, supra).

22. 13Tornel, order. Sen. 390; 28, 1, pp. 3 — 15. 52Bocanegra to Thompson, Dec. 22, 18-13. 53Almonte, Feb. 6, 1844. 52Shannon to Rejón, Oct 10, 1844. Sen. 1; 28, 2, p. 21 (Calhoun). 13Doyle, nos. 65, 90 (order executed in Sonora), 1843. 13E. Barron, no. 10, Oct. 19, 1843.

Another objection to the modified order was that, as the British minister maintained in another case, while the general government itself might with justice banish undesirable foreigners, it had no right to delegate such a power to distant subordinates practically exempt from supervision, to be exercised by them as prejudice, Caprice, and possibly avarice might suggest and without giving the victim a chance to defend himself or settle his aﬁairs (Pakenham, no. 78, 1840). Thompson was described by his French colleague as inexperienced (11no. 108, 1842).

23. These are too numerous to he catalogued here, but a few can be cited as illustrations. General Terán seized the schooner Tapaz and compelled her to transport some of his troops. During the voyage the Mexican ofﬁcers and soldiers killed the master, and, returning to port, had the Crew imprisoned on the charge of having done it. The vessel was held, and property on board seized (Moore, Intern. Arbit., 2992). The schooner Hannah Elizabeth, stranded on the Texan coast, was ﬁred upon by a Mexican vessel of war, and her crew and passengers were put in jail (Sen. 1; 25, 2, p. 85. Ho. 351; 25, 2, p. 167). The Mexicans asserted that the schooner was carrying contraband of war; but ii so, the Mexican ofﬁcer did not know this when he opened ﬁre, and anyhow no penalty except the conﬁscation of the cargo could rightfully have been exacted. Our acting consul at Tabasco was arrested and publicly ill-treated, because he would not legalize documents intended, in his opinion, to defraud an insurance company (Sen. 1; 25, 2, p. 89). The brig Fourth of July was sent to Vera Cruz for sale to the Mexican government, and before the sale was made oﬂicers and soldiers took possession of her, ran up their ﬂag, arrested the captain, and disregarded the protest of our consul (and, p. 91). A boat-load of seamen from our sloop-of-war Natchez landed at Vere Cruz, became intoxicated while the midshipman in command of them was in conference with our consul, and, as the result of a quarrel with a ﬁsherman, were severely handled by the Mexican guard. As they were now unable to manage the boat in the rough sea, the midshipman, on the advice of the consul, requested the captain of the port to take charge of them over night. The next morning the authorities would not give them up to him, nor was our consul permitted to communicate with them (ibid, p. 93). Two Americans were arrested, maltreated and imprisoned at. Matamoros on the baseless suspicion that they intended to visit Texas, and the premises of our consul were forcibly entered, searched and robbed (bid, 94; Ho. 351; 25, 2, p. 172). A lieutenant of the