After waiting 3 months he has received $100, for three months subsistence of a family of 6. He has remained at the Consulate of Spain rather than betray that for which his fathers gave their all. At the same time his family must live and he asks McMaster for some work for early morning and late afternoon. But he must first confess that he is not a Catholic, since his father married a French Protestant, when in exile. His father dies young and he has been raised by an uncle, a man with no religion. He acted as secretary to Archbishop MacNierny from June 7, 1864. He has often thought of becoming a Catholic but feared that his friends would say he did so for financial reasons. His position is thus an excessively false one. He asks McMaster to forgive his verbiage since he is sorry if some one has incorrectly informed McMaster of his religious condition. There is an enclosure in English and French of an Extract of a circular addressed by the Minister of State to the representative of the Spanish Government abroad, dated Madrid, Feb. 7, 1874. The extract relates how the Carlists had been forced to send strong garrisons into the chief cities and that then the Pretendent had been able to take many other cities and caused damage by the following proclamation. Then follows a proclamation of Don Carlos VII address to the soldiers asking for whom they fought and urging them to reject a king imposed on them by foreign powers and to come to his standard. This document falling into the hands of the soldiers of the garrisons had done much damage and the officers are to see that such documents are not distributed. :: I-2-a A. L. S. French 12 pp. 12 mo.