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principles of justice, equity, and international law, and will use its best
efforts 
to persuade and induce the Peruvian government to comply with all such de-

mands. 
I have no doubt the influence of the United States would be very great with

the Peruvian government, and that its exercise might be beneficial to both

countries which are now at disagreement. 
I embrace this opportunity of repeating to your excellency the assurance
of 
my highest consideration, &G., &c. 
GUSTAVUS KOERNER. 
His Excellency the MINISTER OF STATE 
Of her Catholic Majesty. 
Mr. Pacheco to Mr. Koerner. 
[Translation.] 
FIRST DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 
Aranjues, May 25, 1864. 
SIR: I have had the honor to receive the confidential note which you were

pleased to address me on the 20th instant, in which, referring to a private
in- 
terview which you had with me, you have been pleased to renew the indications

which you then addressed to me in the name of your government in respect
to 
the good dispositions which animate the cabinet of Washington to contribute,

by their mediation, to the arrangement of the difficulties pending with the
re- 
public of Peru, lending their support with pleasure to Any reclamation of
Spain 
founded on principles of justice and equity, and endeavoring to persuade
the 
government of Peru to satisfy all such as may have this character. 
The report you make of what occurred in the interview referred to is exact,

and on that occasion, having in view the circumstances of the affair-the
sub- 
ject of our conversation-and considering also the state of it at that time,
I could 
not do less than reply to the friendly and loyal offer which you made me
in 
the name of your government, stating in that confidential way in which we

were proceeding that the government of her Majesty was disposed to accept,

if not the mediation, at least the good offices of the government of Washington,

so as to arrive at an end which corresponded completely to the views of the

government of her Majesty, always desirous to avoid conflicts with the Spanish

American States. 
The same disposition which I then made known to you would continue to 
exist to-day if the conditions and the situation of the affair were the same,
and 
I should have taken pleasure in fixing in writing the statements which on
that 
occasion I had the honor to address to you; but, unfortunately, it has not
thus 
happened, and the government of her Majesty deeply laments it. Things have

advanced, and the affair has taken a different aspect from what it then had.

Before the question of the reclamations against the Peruvian government,
there 
has arisen another, which must be considered as independent and preliminary;

so much the more grave, inasmuch as it affects more the decorum and dignity

of Spain. I refer to the non-reception of the envoy Sefior Salazar y Mozarredo,

with whom the government of Peru has refused to treat. 
It cannot be hidden from your good judgment that by this act, whose nature

you will know how to appreciate, a state of things has been created whose
so- 
lution is no longer susceptible of being moulded to the same conditions which

appeared, and which we both considered attainable at our said interview.
The 
question is not now upon principles of justice ignored, nor of material interests

wounded, but upon an act which, as it may be interpreted to signify a purpose

not to lend an ear to reason, involves an offence to Spain such as makes
it in-