Alexandria Advertiser And Commercial Intelligencer

SPANISH ATROCITY.

The veracity of the statement respecting the imprisonment of the American consul at St. Jago de Cuba, has been denied by some, and doubted by many. In addition to the information we have already published on this infamous and outrageous transaction, we subjoin an extract of a letter received in this city, from the most respectable and authentic source. It will appear from this, that the fact as heretofore stated, is substantially true; and that it was accompanied with every circumstance of indignity and violence towards the authority of the United States. It is not a personal affair of the consul--It is a daring attack on an official character, esteemed, in all civilized countries, inviolable, and free from arrest, except upon a charge of some capital offence.

We learn also, that American property in that island is in universal jeopardy-- that the American character is contemned and abused-and that, generally, marked and barbarous hostility to our rights and interests is every where prevalent.

It is impossible to impute the present conduct of the Spanish nation and its agents to any plausible or equitable motives. A system of warfare, the most insulting and savage, is adopted by them-- not in St. Jago de Cuba alone-not only at Algeciras--It extends with equal violence and atrocity, to every port of their territory, in which Americans unfortunately fall into their power. It is practiced either in open contempt of the law of nations or under the fraudulent mask of unjust requisitions. We trust, and sincerely hope, that such outrages, committed under the very nose of our government, will not long escape deserved retribution.

Extract of a letter from St. Jago de Cuba, dated October 5.

"On the 18th ult. by order of the Governor and Council of this place, (who were commanded by their superior the Intendant General of the Island, residing at Havanna) the stores, dwelling-house, and office of the American Consul, were closed -the keys taken possession of by the government—his person arrested, and thrown into the common prison."

Phil. Gaz.