To his Excellency Don Antonino Vidal.
(SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL)
Buenos Ayres, June 18th, 1842.
My dear M. de Vidal,—The measures which I alluded to in my private letter to your Excellency of the 10th instant—that her Majesty's Government will take for the effectual protection of the Republic of Uruguay are a joint mediation of Great Britain and France, which I am formally to tender to the Buenos Ayrean Government, upon the arrival of the French Minister here, Baron de Lurde, to adjust the difference between Monte Video and Buenos Ayres.
I did not acquaint you of this important intelligence in my last letters, on account of the possibility of their falling into other hands; and as I am not to make the formal offer of joint mediation of Great Britain and France, until the arrival of the French Minister at Buenos Ayres, I think, for many reasons, which I am sure you will share with me, that it should not be made known; but I have taken the first safe opportunity of communicating it to you, for your own satisfaction and for that of your colleagues.
Believe me always, my dear M. de Vidal, with great regard and esteem, most faithfully yours,
J. H. MANDEVILLE.
To his Excellency M. de Vidal, &c. &c. &c.