The reported privateers of Juarez.
The following letter has been addressed by the
Director of the Interior in
Martinique to the Interior in
Martinique to the Chambers of Commerce of St. Pierre and Fort
de France:
‘
"
Mons. le
President: Information which has reached the Administration gives it reason to believe that American privateers have been armed at New Orleans and
Key West, with letters of marque, delivered by the
ex-President,
Juarez, for the purpose of attacking French and
Mexican ships in the
Gulf of Mexico.
The Governor has taken measures for collecting more precise information on this subject; but, in the meantime, he has thought it may be useful to make known the fact at once to the Chambers of Commerce of the two towns, as they will thus be able to warn interested parties.
"The above demonstrates very clearly that the
Shipping Gazette was well informed when it stated, a few days back, that
Juarez contemplated issuing letters of marque against French ships, and that people in the
Northern United States were disposed to act on them.
The communication must be satisfactory to your readers, inasmuch as some journals in this country which are favorable to the
Northern States questioned the accuracy of your intelligence.
The
Phare de la Loire, of
Nantes, in particular, did so; and it even alleged that your
Nantes correspondent, by whom the news was first transmitted to you, had drawn it from his imagination, nobody else at
Nantes, said the
Phare, having heard of it except him. The upshot proves that the correspondent of the
Shipping Gazette was better informed as to what is said and done at
Nantes than the
Phare itself."--
Paris (December 5)
Correspondence of the London Shipping Gazette. ’
