Letter

Señor Don George Williamson to Hamilton Fish, April 25, 1874

Author

Señor Don George Williamson

Recipient

Hamilton Fish

Date

April 25, 1874

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 104. Mr. Williamson to Mr. Fish.

United States Legation in Central America, Guatemala, April 25, 1874. (Received May 25.)

No. 139.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you a terrible outrage was perpetrated yesterday by the commandant of San Jose de Guatemala upon the person of Mr. John Magee, Her Britannic Majesty’s vice-consul at that place. He had Mr. Ma gee very severely flogged, inflicting on him, it is reported, over two hundred lashes.

The government here denounced the outrage as a disgrace to Guatemala.

The minister of war called upon me this morning to say that no effort would be left untried to arrest and punish the offender, and also that ample reparation would be made to the British government and the injured gentleman.

The British minister is absent on leave, but his chargé d’affaires is acting with promptitude and ability.

The perpetrator of the outrage, I am informed, is a renegade Spaniard from Cuba.

When I receive all of the facts I will communicate more fully.

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I have, &c.,

GEO. WILLIAMSON.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.