To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,-lVere not those principles of unimpeached probity and military lhoniour, by which I may be permitted to say I have been always distinguished, and of which I have given soine signal proofs, sufficient to give the lie to the assertions of those who have endeavoure(l to involve my. nanie in a trial for some supposed murders committed at Corutna, the false reports and quotations of my order given in the .ZMadrid Gazette, the wilful misrepresentation of the facts that caused the embarkation of the prisoners, and the malicious concealment of the events which took place on) board the vessel after she sailed," should fully prove the wicked contrivances and strained falsehoods of a statement relying on no more evilence but the more than suspicious proceedings of a partial course of justice, evidently swayed by an arbitrary Government, anti whose acts can never be acknowledged as legal, though covered under a veil of mock judiciary forms. Had a proper court of justice, free from what the Spanish law tereis the bias of factions, been called to an impartial trial of the affair alluded to, I had appear- ed at its bar to ascertain the truth of the accusations against me, and there, to the utter cont'usion of my infamous tra- dacers, obtained by my vindication that triumph which the purity of my conduct has ever entitled me to. If men of honourable an'l humane feelings have, accozd- ing to the gratuitous supposition of the 111adrid Gazette, looked on wlith horror And detestation at the sNpposed atro- cious behaviour of the Spanish Constitutionalists of' Co- runna, impartial men, on a dispassionate eonsiJleratioR of the subject, would easily tiscover the gross, the wicked im- morality of those who now insult and vilffy the Spanish nation-men who try to palliate, and even legitimate with supposed crimes, their real transgressions-who endea- vour to build up their fame Upon the ruins of the character of those who have proved, through a long life, rpostly spent in the field of honour, the nobleness of their minds, and wvho, actuated by such princlples, can never enitertain the contrary ones, so basely and falsely made the pretext of the calumnious impuLtations of their unprincipled enemies. This, Sir, is mv answer to the call you are pleased to mnake upon tnein Thte Times of the 9th instanit-an answer which the contemptible accusations of the Mafedrid Gazette, had never obtained from me, btt wlhich I thouglht due to your valuable paper, even for a somewhat preeipitate ac- cusation,* and to the British public, for whose favourable judgment I feel extremely anxious. The necessity of looking to the Madrid Gazzette, in order to ascertain the evitence brought up a-ainst me, has pro- duced some delay in my answver; ai.d fhave to regret that after a perusal of that paper, I have not been able to flnd in it any specific charge, whieh I both hope and am confi- dent I might have eas'dy conftited to the best vindication of my conduct. I remain, Sir, Yone- mmrnt obedient andl hh1mblo zot-vant PEDRO MENDEZ DE VIGO. 1a, ijancaster-street, ourcon.crescent, uec. Ii. 'We ma(de no aceusatiotn: on the contrary, we expressed our total disbelief of the charge: but knowing that M. Vigo, who was mentioned in the ilMadrid Gazette, was in London, we called upon him to give his personal denial to the accusation of the Spanish journalist. TO THR EDITOR OF TIrB TIMES.