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The Spanish Ambassador (De los Rios) to the Secretary of State
Memorandum
The Ambassador of Spain has the honor to inform His Excellency the Secretary of State of the following:
In the name of his Government he has the honor to communicate His Excellency that while the reply from the Italian Government to the request made to it by the Governments of Great Britain and France regarding the evacuation of military forces, which the former [Page 414] had irregularly sent into Spain, was in tramitation [transmission], 15,000 more Italians have landed at Cádiz to join the Rebel forces.
The Government of Spain leaves to the consideration of His Excellency the moral and juridical judgment of such unusual procedure.