Unknown to Quincy A. Gillmore, August 22, 1863

Brig. Gen. Q. A. GILLMORE, Commanding Federal Forces, Morris Island, S. C.:

General G. T. Beauregard, military commandant of this place,

has given me a written copy of the letter in which you ask of him the surrender of Fort Sumter and Morris Island, and in which you gay, on his refusal you will bombard the city of Charleston.

General, my reason for assuming the honor to address you is, to represent that the short termination of your notification is not sufficient in order that the subjects of S. M. Catolica place in safety their lives and personal effects. The city so soon, in its lower greater part, deserted by its inhabitants, was not so completely that the bombardment did not fail to have some innocent victims.

In this case, then, I ask you, inthe name of my Government, and I beseech you in the name of the subjects that I represent, a suspension of twenty-four hours, to depart, from the receipt of this present communication.

I hope, then, general, that you will accede to a petition, that, to be humanely just, will be-in harmony with the conduct observed by the subjects of S. M. Catolica residing in the city of Charleston.

I take this occasion to assure you of the sincerity of my greatest respect.

J: Ge, Consul of S. M. Catolica. [Inclosure No. 5.]