Sir C. Wyke to Earl Russell. - (Received, May 14) Orizaba, April 3, 1862 My Lord, I have the honour to inclose copies of a further correspondence which has taken place between Vice Admiral Jurien de la Gravière and myself, on the subject of the protection still afforded to General Almonte, Padre Miranda, and other Mexican exiles now at Cordova with the French troops. The repeated excuses of our French colleagues for not joining us here in a conference to be held for the purpose of deciding whether this protection is or is not to be still further extended by them to those persons, places the Conde de Reus and myself in an extremely awkward position, for as long as they remain where they are, we, to a certain degree, are implicated in a transaction of which we entirely disapprove. (Signed) C. LENNOX WYKE Back to Table of Contents: Booklet No. 8, Mexico 1861-67 Back to El Dorado List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by The South and Central Military Historians Society This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com