JOSHUA A. SPENCER, esq.

No. 10.
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No. lU.


..... WAsHneroN, April 26, ls4l.


SIR 1t is the object of this letter to state to you
certain important facts, to be used by you, or by
Others as occasion, in your judgment, may require
which facts are that on the 18th day Of last month
Henry 8. Fox, ESQ.,, her Britannia Majesty's envoy
extraordinary and minister plenpotentiary, accred-
tied to this government made formal and official
communication to the Department Of State, by in
struction of her Maesty's government. In this
communication it is explicitly declared and avowed
that the transaction account Of which Alexander
Mcleod has been arrested and is TO be put on his
trial. was transaction of public character planned
and executed by persons duly empowered by her
Msesy's colonial authorities to take any steps and
do any acts necessary for the defence Of her Ma
jestys territories and for the protection Of her Ma
jestys subjects and that consequently, those sub
jects Of her Majesty who engaged in that transac-
ton we're performing an act Of public duty, for which
they cannot be made personally and individually
answerabe to the laws and tribunals Of any foreign
country; that that transaction may have been ius-
fable or not just6able, but that they regard that
question as political question, to be discussed be-
tween the two governments; and that any respon-
sibility for participating in the transaction cannot
be thrown upon individuals, who, under the sane
tion or by the orders Of the constituted authorities
of their own government, engaged in it as a military
enterprise. -. ..a


-. .r JOHN TYLER.


By the President .. o.. ." ..... -rr.. .


DANIEL WEBSTER, .
.... =. "g "'.' Secretary Of State.


JosHuA A. SPENcER, p .f''n., ua H. ....-..


Attorney of the u. s. for the northern dis,ric,


Of N. York, and Of counsel for A. Mcleod.
[The above letter was originally addressed, under
date Of the 18th of March, and signed by President
General .....


