[Translation.]
Mr. Romero to Mr. Seward
Mexican Legation to the United
States, Washington,
July 15, 1864.
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to remit to
your department, for the information of the government of the United
States, copies in English and French of a protest which Don Jesus
Escobary Armendariz, agent of the Mexican government, made in the
city of London, the 10th of June last past, against all the acts of
French intervention in Mexico, and of the functionaries emanating
therefrom, and principally against the loan which the Archduke
Ferdinand
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Maximilian of
Austria decreed on the 10th of April previous, pretending by that
act to commit the credit of the Mexican nation.
I avail of this opportunity to repeat to you the assurances of my
very distinguished consideration.
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.
[Translation.]
Protest of Jesus Escobar y Armendariz, late
secretary of the Mexican legation in Washington, and now
agent of the constitutional government in Europe, against
the last Mexican loan.
I, Jesus Escobar y Armendariz, agent of
the constitutional government of Mexico, legally authorized, and
in virtue of the divers protests made by the legislative and
executive powers of the nation against all the contracts, and,
in general, against all the acts of the French intervention, and
of the functionaries emanating from it, protest anew that the
Mexican nation and its constitutional government will never, at
any time, recognize or admit the obligations which shall be
contracted by any other functionaries than those who hold their
authority from the constitution.
I protest especially against the Mexican loan which was decreed
on the 10th of April last by the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian
of Austria, and against every species of obligation which shall
be contracted at the charge of the Mexican nation by what person
soever who shall not be authorized by the constitutional
government, whether these obligations have for their object to
create a fresh national debt or to augment the amount of that
which already exists, or simply to introduce modification of the
English debt, which the government considers sacred, or any
other debt legally recognized; and although the protests of the
supreme power of the nation have obtained, in Europe, all the
publicity that was due to them, I now renew them in the interest
of the public, and to affirm as much as possible the rights of
the Mexican nation.
J. ESCOBAR Y ARMENDARIZ.
London, June 10,
1864.
