This view of the case is at his request submitted for your consideration, but whether you may deem it correct or not, there is, perhaps, one ground upon which this indemnity, which can not be large in amount, may be granted without establishing a dangerous precedent, and the granting of which would commend itself to the generous feelings of the entire country, and that is this:  The Queen of Spain, with a magnanimity worthy of all commendation, in a case where we had no legal right to solicit the favor, granted a free pardon to all the persons who had so unjustifiably invaded her dominions and murdered her subjects in Cuba, in violation of her own laws as well as those of the United States and the public law of nations.  Such an act of mercy, which restored many misguided and unfortunate youth of this country to their parents and friends, seems to me to merit some corresponding act of magnanimity and generosity on the part of the Government of this country, and I think that there can be none more appropriate than to grant an indemnity to those Spanish subjects who were resident among us and who suffered by the violence of the mob, not on account of any fault which they themselves had committed, but because they were the subjects of the Queen of Spain.  Such an act would tend to confirm that friendship which has so long existed between the two nations and to perpetuate it as a blessing to both, and I therefore recommend it to your favorable consideration.

MILLARD FILLMORE.

WASHINGTON, June 22, 1852.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with the accompanying documents,[21] in compliance with the Senate’s resolution of the 29th of April last.

MILLARD FILLMORE.

[Footnote 21:  Correspondence of the American charge at Vienna on the subject of the apprehension and imprisonment by the Austrian authorities of Rev. Charles L. Brace, an American citizen.]

WASHINGTON, June 22, 1852.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention for the mutual delivery of criminals fugitives from justice in certain cases between the United States on the one part and Prussia and other States of the Germanic Confederation on the other part, signed in this city on the 16th instant.

MILLARD FILLMORE.

WASHINGTON, June 23, 1852.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with the accompanying documents,[22] in compliance with the Senate’s resolution of the 3d instant.

MILLARD FILLMORE.

[Footnote 22:  Correspondence relative to the withdrawal of Mr. Huelsemann, charge d’affaires from Austria to the United States.]

WASHINGTON, June 26, 1852.

To the Senate of the United States: