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Washington, October 20, 1852.
A new expedition is being actively concerted at New-York and without any great regard to secrecy, for the purpose of invading the island of Cuba for the third time, in the midst of the perfect peace actually existing between Spain and the United States. The honorable Secretary of State ad interium must assuredly have already received intelligence of this notorious and scandalous transaction. The expedition is said to have selected as a point of reunion, either the Amelia island (Florida) or the neighbourhood of Cape May (N. Jersey.)
Although the undersigned feels convinced that the United States' Government has already issued the most efficient orders to prevent the departure of the said expedition, he nevertheless believes it ot be his duty to urge the adoption of such preventive measures. He begs it in virtue of the solemn engagements subsisting between both countries, in the name of international law which is the bond which unites civilised nations; finally for the sake of humanity, to avoid the effusion of blood, the severe punishments of the piratical invaders, and the clamities which would inevitably follow the renewed perpetration of the nefarious plot which is in progress.
The undersigned renews [etc.].