Reply of N.P. Trist, consul at Havana, to the preamble and resolutions adopted by the meeting of ship masters and ship owners, convened at the city of New York, on the 8th and 14th of August, 1839

and transmitted to the president of the United States, as the ground of their demand for the instant recall of said consul : (being an extract from a document recently printed by order of the House of Representatives).