No. 31

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Consulate of the United States
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Havana Nov’r 27th 1851

Sir.

I have the honor to enclose to you herewith duplicate of my communication no. 30 with copies of the papers that accompanied the original.  I now beg leave to lay before you a copy of my communication to the Capt. General dated 23rd Nov’r & referred to in my letter to you, asking at Mr. Thrasher’s request for a communication of his sentence.  But His Excellency states in a letter to me, of which I have the honor to send you a copy, that it is not in his power to accede to the petition; and that no other resource is left for Mr. Thrasher, but to appeal to Her Majesty the Queen of Spain.

I have therefore presented to the Captain General a Petition of Mr. J. S. Thrasher, asking for copies of the proceedings against him to submit to the Queen.

Mr. Thrasher has this morning left this port in a Spanish vessel bound to Vigo in Spain.

                                                                                                                                                     I have the honor to be
                                                                                                                                                     with great respect
                                                                                                                                                     Yr Ob’t Serv’t
 
                                                                                                                                                     A. F. Owen

Honorable Daniel Webster
Secretary of State
of the United States.