A parcel of fabrications have been submitted to Your Majesty, making me out a brigand and a notorious rascal. I, your servant, while purposing to come to Your Majesty's throne and submit my case and not to accept any one of these fabrications, immediately on your gracious message set out and came to take refuge in Your Majesty's justice. Now, whoever has suffered any injustice, wrong, or oppression from your servant, let him come forward. I am ready to appeal to your imperial justice. I venture, relying on Your Majesty's clemency, to pray that, if I am found guilty of these fabricated charges I may be punished, but if I am found innocent that the authors of them may be punished for their calumnies and that any rigio may be made public. This and all other matters depend on the iradé and firman of Your Majesty. Your servant, MIRZA BEY ZADE, Moussa BEY. [Inclosure 2 in No. 34.] Mr. King to Said Pacha. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, SIR: Permit me to recall to your excellency's attention an outrage committed on two Americans, Rev. Mr. Knapp and Dr. Raynolds, in the year 1883, near the village of Ghourie, in the region of Bitlis. The matter was reported to the Sublime Porte, by General Wallace, United States minister, in his note, No. 167, of June 13, 1883, and in detail in his No. 179, of September 10, 1883. Many notes were exchanged upon the subject during the years 1883, 1884, and 1885. United States legation to Sublime Porte, No. 184, November 7, 1883; No. 185, November 12, 1883; No. 190, December 13, 1883; No. 198, January 24, 1884; No. 241, February 27, 1885. Sublime Porte to the United States legation: June 21, 1883; December 8, 1883; January 28, 1884; February 27, 1884; April 21, 1884; January 12, 1885; April 8, 1885, and others. Mr. Knapp was severely beaten with a club, and Dr. Raynolds received ten sword cuts. They were dragged into the bushes, gagged, bound, and left to die. It was well established, as the above notes show, that the leader of the attacking party and the person who inflicted the sword cuts on Dr. Raynolds was Moussa Bey, who has since that time become notorious through many other outrages committed by him. Through the garbling of the record of the investigation for which the examining magistrate and the deputy imperial prosecutor were afterwards placed under judgment (see notes from H. E. Assim Pacha to General Wallace, April 21, 1884, and January 12, 1885) Moussa Bey was allowed to go free and was not again arrested. My Governrnent regarded "the case of Knapp and Raynolds as clearly made out and the identification of the principal assailant, Moussa Bey, as complete;" and that, because he was never punished "justice was denied," and that the last note from the Sublime Porte was "neither final nor satisfactory "; and on account of the "magnitude and cruelty of the offense" Mr. Bayard (Secretary of State) instructed this legation "again to appeal to that sense of justice which should prompt the Turkish Government to make honorable amends for this crime." Some years have elapsed during which Moussa Bey has gone unpunished for this crime, and his presence in this city to undergo trial for murder and numerous other outrages leads me again to lay this matter before the Sublime Porte, and, while not wishing to interrupt or embarrass the progress of the trial, to request your excellency, first, to take the necessary measures to prevent this criminal from escaping from this city; and, secondly, whatever the issue of the above mentioned trial may be that at its close Moussa Bey may suffer the punishment required by law for this murderuos attack on American citizens, as above recalled to your excellency's atten tion. Accept, etc., PENDLETON KING. No. 27.] Mr. Blaine to Mr. King. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, SIR: I have received your No. 34 of the 10th ultimo, recalling to the attention of the Department the correspondence with your legation in 1883-85, touching the attack made in the former year on the American missionaries, Rev. Mr. Knapp and Dr. Reynolds in Kurdistan, by Moussa Bey, who, at the instance of the British ambassador, is being tried at Constantinople on charges independent of the above. Your conclusion that, in view of the apparent miscarriage of justice in Moussa Bey's case to which the correspondence of 1883-85 related, and the presence of the alleged criminal in Constantinople, it would be wise to re-open the matter with the Sublime Porte, seems to be justified by the details of your note of 7th ultimo, to the minister of state, of which you inclose a copy. Your action is approved. It is hoped, as expressed in your note, that justice, however long deferred, may at last be done in respect of the well-grounded complaints of the United States Government, and its repeated and earnest appeals to the sense of justice and amity of Turkey for adequate redress for the wrongs suffered by these American citizens at the hands of a delegate of the power of the Sultan's Government. I am, etc., JAMES G. BLAINE. No. 29.] Mr. Blaine to Mr. King. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, SIR: I have received your No. 33 of the 12th ultimo, referring to a note verbale received in February last, from the Sublime Porte, regard. ing the military service of cavasses and dragomans employed by foreign consulates. The terms of your proposed reply to the note of February are approved. It is hoped that the exemption sought for our employés, not being claimed as a right, will be conceded as a favor, so that the business of our officers in Turkey may not be embarrassed by the abrupt withdrawal of such experienced persons from our service. I am, etc., JAMES G. BLAINE. Of the claim of Carlos Butterfield & Co. against Denmark. Geneva tribunal of International court of.. Tribunals, conference of members of the English and French Parlia- Argentine Republic: Immigration into, 1857 to 1888; volume and composition of...... Immigration to the river Platte Public lands... Recognizes Brazil revolutionary government.. 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