THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 7066. MORNING EDITION—THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1856. PRICE TWO CENTS. OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS. — | ‘rove ones eter cia ane Eroeeting | of Cental rerian Sate and th sijacentitands It | von in he morning al that day and I basen to rely 0 saa 7a hen eno ee Sava fier Blajeety's | sezet te, see tat daw ener fe - in quite evident, judging by communications reseived | your inquiries, ‘ament, up to the end of 1849. Nay, in hen. prea dpa td * whether up, to this protectorate, and all other British clates in | from her Majesty's government, particularly in regard |” With rogard’to the Sirat part of your inquiry, I beg to | govenament, ae when | far as the canal is a, a8 wos aan the peak and teal heroin a | to the disieutiew at aa Juan AdNicaragas, Gualeale | 19} nc tee Me ee ey, [bee wecioi oapert relative 40 tho aflare ef Caetrd Sees | i0%R of San Juan are under the me oe "aa ¢ THE CENTRAL AMERICAN IMBROGLIO. suscingt t mccount i (% 2 art oe A a _— Ca opinion, between it and hg ge ee Py or colonize Niceragua, Costa Rica. my Mosquito Coast, | TP he seen that om introducing these polar Great cing? eater the governmer. of Nicaragua. My 5 constru sos” 7 ‘Moreover wing up the treaty, both Mr. Clayton “Tihat the terms of the convention of July 14, 1765, a9 | the clayton ’° and’ Delmer’ eaten (ue, of | Ot amy part of Gentral America regant w M0: | attention af Congress, the President's Seeretary of State | gud Rie Thr Le Baie ceneree teat Petes which oa clove iv tion has existed " ’ not en na roratle opinion ofthe House” On this | wide that ference i and On what paroular points | between the’ crown of Great Brtaia and the State and (er ore orca ae TOA acl eer ernment of | passed between Lord Palmerston and ‘Mr, Lawrence, aad r i licited the aid of the ‘ad beon there motions long debate ensued between Lords Ra\ is raised, have not yet been very clear! This | Territory of M od of about two ceatu- | Ni Les Heeb ven made use of the preciss terms which h WABLIKE ASPECT OF THE QUESTION. oy gg 3 rae, , have not y ery clearly erritory ito for a period of abou eatt- | United States government to prevent an anticipated at- it of “be inferred Carlisle, Syormont, Hs ke and Porchester, in, support difference will be a the President Saas, fully known ie bat the British governinent does not claim dominion tack on San Juan by the British forces acting ou behait | (™R0zed, from which, it must of necessity ment” 3 of the mi t, who ; ‘meant to tranfor to their convention @ with the tated he trey of 1788, the Marquis of Garmarthon, | consideration of the British government With regard to the second part of your inquiry, I bog | of the Mosquite King, but received no answer; thet the | words whiah they borrowed, the meaning watch Bad pre- sas, = 5 paadlons e President of Nicaragua addressed the President of the | viously been d wats frems Important and Exciting Official Corres- | Secretary for Forelen Afra, who negotiated the con: | Your intimate Knowledge of the subject in all its benr- | to say that her Majesty's government witl eel great plea- | Untied States at the same time, and reccived ne uaawer, | Venn’, been attached to tac words in the docum: ings, and of the q f the President which i operat ; i | which theyextracted them; and a reference to su. ‘h doca- pondence- rclebrated Thunow, Lord Rawdon, on introdusing | embodied in Jour tostructions, will enable youto cover | reenter Gan ir ey ‘othe purpove of alssting that in April, 1848, the United Statew Consul at Nicara- | ments wil at once hee thot ate Lawrence, while he his motion, stated “that the Mosquito share, given | the wlio a cr i ree reaueet of ithe Minister of Horeign Afsirs of | asked her Majesty's goveroment whether it’ meatat t> es Noa iy ogi 5 9 share, given whole American ground in opening the negotiations. | the operations of any company which may be f Seat How much will be conceded and how much contested by | with a view to establish a commercial cummenication by Repabte, stated the csonpation of Gas Juss by & & econser, fextity eis Ee British force, but was not answered; tat on the Sti ot | over Wdsquits’ did wot tne eee: crjexercise dom, Oion more than a century in the possession of Great Britain; | Great Br i . Until - " > seed Musquito. did not allude to the protectorate of G. ‘The Two Constructions of the Claytou-Bulwor | ‘hat't condsted of tersitory of between ieee eet n | Cieet Britain remains to be seen, Cpptues te those hare | anal or rallway) bélreen the Atlantic and Pacrfc, across November, 1848, Mr: Cuatellion,, proceeding, to London | Britain over that country, sail that’ Tord Palmerston 42 Treat’ hundred miles in , and was noarly of the depth of | entertained are fully considered, the President does not ition of the continent; both by obtaining p80 poi tae ory inten Bee vain eyo de bist ‘cng | {iselaiming that her Mazesty’s government did not in y oue nundred miles inland from the soa; that there were | Geom it advisable to dx om ultimate, Theke, if desired | lncal security fOr the seks hte Oey StEtimIDE | letter to the Uni othe al Great Dre | £64 to do any of these things, expressly left the ques‘ien” o it various eettloments, and that the residents at the | i ‘ad’ yo ~ | bis intervention with regard to the claims of Great concerning the political relations between Great Britaimr ” time of its cession consisted of near 1,600 Briviah subs | leheds * ey emees “tate of the negotiation, will be fur Gon! though the Pe Be Oh eitant taaeie Ce ees {ain in right of the Musquite King, and recetved novan- | und tne Murquitos untouched. ; that on the 12th of January, 1640, Mr. Bancroft, | "So reueb fer the om a Letters of Marcy, Buchanam, Lord Clarems | cots, including whites, male end fomale, persons ét |” in relation to the Belize, Ubelievo your instructions are | yord the seach af muleniatign, distarbencetor opstene: {ek representative of the United Staten to theCourt of | tiem of 18080, With ar ae Bee oT, the conven mixed color and their slaves; thet a regular form of | sufficiently explicit. tion by reason of international disputes which 7 raged ki : ning. this don and Others, movement Aad been established on it many years since, ro ihe terri orial extent, and for the [limited uses, de- may nf any time unfortunately axiee’ Rage _ b ihgpert een. roe Greig barge vine cote Ra oe piper tas p Bate d eta Hi lib Couneil 5 that it was 'tlement scribed in the treat wi reat Britain it 7 ‘a : rs p , a o., &a. ke. great value and importance) to this country, and that | has aright to contlane ia possession of that country, | Stall nme er yetnst atch, communication should | fui of am Juan de Nicaragua with the British govern: | any doiuinion ovee Niarogwa, Costa ice the Marrone ——— our claim it Was ag as our claim P “« i iniou st, nor any part of Central America,” ‘and that mel- Island of | ‘Though the United States cannot claim as a matter of | merce of all naticns upon equal terms for all, bite | ™°Bt said, “I think it proper to state to you my opi coast, Pa rate Fig MR. MARCY TO MR. BUOHANAN, Semele, La sureortge eer aemecaiae: hs | Caniship aver ie ee Lae patira HM hl cin iil. Reet prea taicen no part.” And Ghat, again im March, Me, Bancroft rt od fir toad any lee eels ee [No. 2] sembly of the Inland of Jamaica and other corroboratiag”| that tactinns ; eral wtitt pecons ae oe an tec dime | wzote that Mr. Castillion would be apxious'to seck advice | or may have’ with any State or people for the pur ; y now regarded ua of very little value. Tais | general utility, and tending to much to assist the diffu. ’ ae da Wamserow, Joly 2.1868. | papers. In exchange for this valuable settiongntehe | govornment in not aware. that Great, Britala claim to | Son of cirilsstlon: aad torsienetten the foundations ot Fee aa ual ea Creare nt Hel be had sleaguimede 80; | of some uisetie Gadte cx cay vari Oeael bec | Cee ae /ASHINGTON, , said, the British ministers had contented themselves | bave full sovereignty over it, but, if she does, the United | international peace, would be as honorable to the Pawers It would thus seem, on the authority cf the United States | or of arsuming er exerels yf ce : 4 ‘y ' - ‘ ao | with a epti is + pw fae < werlioee., of States would contest that claim, and regard the assertion | concerned in such an arrangement as the result would be government itseif, {hat up to the end of 1849, the United | Mr. Buchanaw says, with regard to that portion of the Great Britain for a long time had possession of adistrict | Tord Rawdon then proceeded to consure tho Mastery, | trne wine Teer ee etice cae n cogtrine a doc- | advantageous to the at tnforesta of tie sory | Sinton government have made no remark or remon- | foregcing sentexce which restriete tho use which Greet pf country on the shores of the Bay of Honduras called | especially for the 1itharticle of the coavention by which | I belicve Great Britala hes never dened the chonct ot ith regard to the port of Groytown, at the Hiver st. | Mite ot Monerto eet hoy oon elect of her protecto- | Britain or the United States might make of any protec | A the King of 6) mises not to exorcise any act of | ber elnia to hat is called ‘‘the Colony of 7 of Mosquito; and t even with res] 1e Ca tion which either might afford to any State or people, it * The Bele.” The right sho has to hold it is derived | “verity againat the Morquitos inbabiting im aay pertor | ber cigim £0, Possess, what is called ‘the Colony of the | John, her as government would fully undertake of Sen Juan de Nicaragua, (now called Greytown), | hue been nasd that ties article of the convention cbt froma grant by Spain, and this right Is limited to a sin- | the countries which are to be evacuater on machet of ganized ‘colonies. Sho has not, in explicit language, | sects men Sobps eplie ges pa pA Gace se percent Yonion was not suthrized pena nag sein Nrma 2 herria icone onsen gle purpose, with an express prohibition against using it | the connections which may have existed between the said | claimed sovereignty over it, though her acts have ing principles above mentioned, to the purposes of such a Ken Coannene tee tee gre "penedt of his coun: hie deact . red pipe dog the Uatiea Seaton ee for any other. Indians and the English, which his Lordship declared cated such a purpose. Whatever may have been her | to sea communication. sels and good offices thereupon; and it is but right to ba the aforesaid protectorate of Great Britain in Mos- A possession uo restricted as to its uso could never be | The'Bart of Cailidio in so. same manner apoke of the | ieee wor, Ng'euuons to rights over, this, colony, | You Between the republics Cf Nise e Ornce Haare | obrerve, “that the United States government pursued, | quito; it was now thr intention of her Dajeat'« gorers- : : arisen rablics of gus wy | by. this ccurse to her Majesty's government, | ment, o¢ thet of the Britis negotiator, to ind ish : she confined herself | Morquito shore, as a settlement that had been in the un- | taken of the subject, by the Claytos and Bulwer treaty, te , ike, poareel» 2 a, ve hor treotioe cath | distarbed possession of Greet Britaia for more than 's | The Prout t, by yton any ty. | in regard to oundaries and to. some other: matters that friendly and considerate — po! which her | rectly that which was not for openly; but it ie t cannot conceive that Great Britain can | and you that the joint influence of Great | sisieaty’ ; ts y's government always wishes to pursue, | evident that this article clearly acknowledges the pesal- ~ Spaia in 1783 and 1786, and uses the district or | CeRt™ly.., He considered the Ministers especially censur- | have any plausible ground for excepting this pomession | Britain and the United Statos should be employed to het, iy i | Sineeron cece tba coe" Uanes Satay stefag vi has pursued towards the United Btates government able “for having hung wp the humiliation of Groat, | from the operation of that treaty, and he is quite sure | by their good offices, the brenehos whion Lace interragt. | 23 tg exer teeth Central eountzy described only for the purposes stipulat- | Britain in overy court in Guropeinan article eo degrading’ | ’ han acnctecicl the Biltish pevilecient at the masterly manner answered {he various arguments Sone between (reat Britain and Spain, you will find this island | equally ready. Iam, &., &, PALMERSTON, it. But her Majesty’s government cannot admit that | nation’ undertaking such defence, to declare formally, amd = ad been urged in supportof the motion. He begun wi clearly recegnized as a Spanish possession, and a part of Asvorr LAWRENCE, Ke. doctrine as an pacha pba ‘axium which ought to td i Belize is explicitly shown by an authority which will not | ceclaring that “he had expected to have heard the ques- | the old Viceroyalty of Guatemala, Should’an attempt be : ‘ ve promise clearly, that iv would mot turn this transitory | , yalty , STATEMENT FOR MR. BUCHANAN. regulate the conduct of European States. The doctrine | ard allowable act into one of a eontinuous nature, whicw ‘be controverted or questioned by the government oftireat | tion spoken to with that degree of explicitcess and candor nade to distinguish between this island and the States of The substance of the case submitted to her Majesty’s | with regard to the incapacity of the Indians to exercise | ergagementa had probibited. Ne one will maintain that | Britain, This authority is no other than the Parhament | that belonged to it, He looked for more accuracy of des-. | Central America, upon the ground above suggested, it is guversment by hr. Buchanan, may be billy stated as ‘ " the rights of sovereign powers raust also remain a doc- | the bar to colonization, or fortifying, isa bar to all pro- iption, in point of hical character, than had bee: ubable Hl ink hi » is ake Ta two acte—one passed in 1617 | C4PtHen, 1m polat of geographical character m | probable that more full information than we have now in | fllows:— trine cn which each State which has to deal with such | tections. No one will assert ‘hat the Musquito shore has been talked of aa | regard to that subject may be obtainsd from or ions 1. That Great Britain, prior to A) afford protection to i il, 1850, was “in | Indians, : ti i and the other in 1819—it is admitted that the Belize is not tract of country extending between four and five hundred | Mr. Molina, the Diplomatic Representative near ossession of the whole coast of Conteat America, from ime pp ep Maaet pandante: tt ieeanaiate pial eaieg No one will Sonera ts send a pa within the British dominfons. In these acts provision is | eee eo ae alee erSed cee a tes aos | Fevernment from Costa Rica and Guatemala. On reosiv- | the Rio Hondo to the port and harbor of San Juan de NI- | frue iat Grent Duitain, Spain andthe United’ states, | Sal at military force, for the purpese of expelling an eme- Roatan 0 ng an intimation from you that further information Mento Ui sortian ot Tt tap astenen [on : ‘ ; é a _anade for the punishment of crimes committed at the Be- | for the parts of it that were actually impossible to be | thereom may be necoseaty, every effort will be here made | gui Cape cahuers trecthon th the ah aes eee | Mere all a onal in dhe Babit of treating the Indian el iresp Gate hodes pala teakemec hiiom lize, which otherwise could not be punished by any exist- | cither cultivated or inhabited. With regard to settie. | to procure and forward ir'to you: "| Sotend af Beetend? TUK Ula JRUr pratt SOctiNvaey SOCAL eaaesU Be aoee eae eee ee ES eee aN le ing law, because Belize, as expressly alleged, was not a | ents, it would be imagined by those whowore estranged | Acopy of the convention of the 8th of February last will | “2. ‘That the government of the United States does not | Pufatis past guido for any future pohcy. ‘The period | rerted in the treaty of 1850, as that word is equally British dominion, In 1826 Great Britain renewed in her | feguler eouncd, and cstebligued paecee to the ter- {io Gonprastonal Gobet ca Porpcesured, onateie | eras under whet ulle Great Britain, having aban- | bad oot yet passed beyond the memory of man, at | plied to all Central America, as well as to Mosquite, treaty with Mexico the special grant made to her by | ritery, when the fot was there neither had existed the | the debates of the last session of Congress ed tae ealled Sane jor dben it know precisely ai | Roch reat, Bitain and the United States, now | would haven far wider signiiicance than her Majesty's , sumed them subsequently, nor does it know precisely at | so nobly distinguished in suppressing the’ slave nvernment contemplated, or than the United States Spain in the treatios of 1783 and 1786, to enter into and | ne nor the other. His Lordship went into the history of | session of the Senate. what period the protectorate of Great Britain over Hoes trace, Teabtlan Mead’ ecaoncaneh okt eRAenGaa tle would, at probability admit, for, in such Deoupy the Belize upon the same terms and with the | 2° *¢ttlement, tracing it down from the year 1650 to the Tam, sir, respectfully your obedient servant, quito was re-established, the first intimation which the | deemed it legitimate. The project of a republic | case, neither Great Britain nor the United States could, wy in. | Jeet 1777, mentioning Lord Godolphin’s treaty and all ite : W. L. MARCY. | United States nment had received on the subject | compored chiefly of negroes from the Umted States. | in any circumstance, employ force, naval or military’ same restrictions ax thos imposed upon her by S| circumstances, and deducing arguments from each fact MR. MARCY TO MR’ BUCHANAN. being from an Lmacioan skent in 1844, and thataece, | O% caiginaliy selabihions-amier tip ealiguipned acd | (caste atest er aee DR cee ccna ‘The United States, while they concede tast Great | he mentioned, to prove that the Musquito shore never (No. 21.) over Captain Bonnyeastle and other authorilies had never | hewnenc nage of the United States, would have beon | jyat theprovocation they might secelve,. The of es Bea Baten WEMt “fue Belize, positively deny that | bad been falsiy donmod a Brilah settioment, but that a wDianaist.or Sri, 1 | reprevented the Mosquito shore as extending as fers the | Gcemed, ht'y yersa ago, au absurd and impomible chime. | ihe United Staten’ tr iegtanee wicks om fot roe . . : o 'ASHINGTON, Dec. : Y of the British dominions, snd in maintaining | Jamaica, who haderceted fortilications, which had been | Jayes Becuaxaw, FsQ., &- sso , ) | river and town of San Juan de Nicaragua, which latter | 1a, Yet Liberia exists, and row flontishes as an inie- | Celifornia to be arrested and confined oa 5 =) AC. BC. the Spaniards had considered a place of much impor- t State. reat Rritain, in her ewn deal- etext, and the demands of the Unit the policy referred to they are bound to resist any at- | afterwards abandoned by order of the government at Sin—Your despatch, No 16, of the 12th ultimo, came tance, ena ton key to the Americas. - ple sition tae nea sotien them A independent Blates net uae cterory onan re be — Sempt to convert it into a British colony. heme. He instanced the transactions on the sudject of ¥ 3 < : argue The protectorate: which Great Britta. ae assumed | tha peat or Paris, in 1703, when Governor rasta tohand yesterday, and was laid before the President. 3. ‘That it appears to the United States chiefs, whilst in her treaties with foreign posers, she has | that, under such circumstances, the United States could government He upproves entirely of the sugestion made by you to | that Spain, in virtue of the treaty of 1786, had a right to hese a lated for the | not cend an armed force into Nizaragua to compel the Sree. of a: wes Ea most palpable infringe- | governed Jamaica, and upon them, to show that | Lord Clarendon to lace the Mosquito Indians in the same otyectie Great] Britain establishing herself on ihe Moa- phe of heirs pli Ree i eeseiee the ctieens from Californian, and mattis these to which reference has | this couniry, by the peace of Paris, had renounced what- | rolnti sic re % i a Oe 2 poitniiel < just been made, and the authority she is there exercising | ever claim se. might be‘ore shat period. have tarciod Liejenysutctnis tripre feist tiled et waits quito coast, or aseuming the protectorate of Mosquits; | Thus, on all of the above mentioned topics, her Majes- | who bad unjustly incarcerated them? The United States and that Great Britain lad by her treaty with Moxico, | ty’s government, withont seeking to impose any opinions | guvernment, however, would be bound to state the objest gader pretence, of this protectorate is in der tion of | she hada right to maintain, and had given a tresh proof | of this government on thé Gubject, ‘as will be seen from } recognized that the former colonies of Spain stood in the | ch the United States government, claims a right to hold | {eed in view in sending fores into Nicaragua; iwend ’ the sovereign rights of several of the Central American | ofher baring. dass so in the year 1777, when Lord George | the foliowing extract from the rtment’sinstructions | seme position with respect to other States as Old Spain | its own opinion. Nor, indced, does it appear necessary, | be bound to declare that it did not mean to ‘colonize, for- States, and contrary to the manifest spirit and inteation | Cermaine, the Secretary of the American bi aelecrai to Mr. Borland under date of the 17th of June last:— berrelf, and inherited the advantages of the ancient trea- | although doubtless it would be desirable, that her asjea- | tify, oceupy or establish its sovereignty over Nicai of the treaty of April 10, 1850, with the United States. | sent out Mr. Lawrie to tne Mus;uito shore to ree tha “Admitting there Indians to be what the United States | tics of the mother country; taat the United States gov- | ¢ Lys government and the United States governmentskould | and by ring to this p! its ‘treaty obl ation Thongh ostensibly the direct object of the Clayton and | the stipulations of that treaty between this country and } snd Nicaragua regard them—a savage tribe, having | ernment had always contested the claim of Great Britain | be perfectly ogieed with respect to them. would be fulfilled. But surely this dispute, as to the na- eee ede eae Renerites thei cree aiid ocenaob. use | Bieta wore patsled fully into executina, «His Locdanip I< nly porsersory rights to the country they coups, | tall the possessions hetd by her ia Central America ‘The one remuining subject to be discussed is, however, | ture and meaning of protection, is one that should mot a ogg pr eres Say tn oe 4 ul ni ua of Da- | enlarged very much on these Pag aire and after & end not the rovercignty of it—they cannot nie with the exceptim ef that portion of the settlement o | ofa very different character. It relates to a question in | have arises, with res to the treaty of 1860. The tien, _ Ps na suc! to all nations by mutual | forcing and applying them F arguments that had } jequired to yield up their autual posscasion wi lelize which 4 M@tunted ‘tetween the Rio Hondo and the | which Great Britain and the United States are both di- | object and nature of ftat treaty ought to manifest k treaty stipulations to that effect; there were other and | been urged in detenee of the motion, procesded to notice | some compensation. Might not this mest troublevome | Sitem; that it had atways resisted the right of Great | rectly concerned, and in regard to which it ix a matter | protcotion is not eqnivalent to occupation or sovereignty: highly important objects sought to be accomplished by | what lord Carlisle had said on the delicrcy of ques- | clement i thie Central American question be removed | Pritain to establish a protectorate over the Mosquito, | both of honor and Interest that they should avold all | acd that it does not of nevesait imply the sequisition of - that convention. The stipulation regarded most of all | tions of that sort, declaring that he hed ‘een ly Nicaragua, in a way just in itself and entirely compa- | ond that it had Yearnol, with great surprise and regre | » isunderstancing or disagreement. ‘This subject ia the | apy exclusive advantages to the , or by the United States is that for besa the use of | happy io hear the matter 90 judicially observed upon. } jihle with her national horor! her arrange this | iLat the Br ferees bad, in tis, expelled the Nicara | rightful interpretation of a treaty engagement to which | give those parties exclusive control over that which is her assnmed protectorate of the Musquito Indians, and | His Lordship aid he should have been extremely glad if | patter ax wo arrange thore ef th e character with | guan authorities, which beld the ; i 2 ; yr F 7 : port and towa et San | Great Biitain and the United States are parties. protected, “ith it the removal of all precept whatever for interfer | the whole ground of tho transactions could with peu- | the Indian tribes inhabiting por of our own ‘Terri- | Suan de Nicaregea in virtue of the old Spaaiah rights, | "'Mr. Buchanan Joys #2 down as a fect that Grent Britain |! "Great Britain and the United States, by the aid treaty, sag mene os Mareee So ys joe rappfeson brad tg Keirg oui propriety eA eR Geter i pyle pla tories, I te it woul be pre Bfor you to urge upon | arc had then hoisted thereupon the flag of the Mosquitos. | held the sovereignty of the Mosquito Coast prior to 1850, | bid themselves to protect certain cavals or railways dt was the intention, as it fs obviously sie Pet te the ir. With regard ta the degradation of the country that D yee a idivatle anniitty aecnved ta AB aie weiol 4, That Mr. Monroe, when President of the United end he then states that Great Britaia still continues to | which may be formed through various indeper dent States, States, bad, im 1823, announced in public message to | bold this rovercignty, although the treaty of 1850 pro- | Great Britaim and the United States do not by this Hreoty of April 19, 1860, to place Great Britain under an | the 14th article was preterled to hold out he denied tue | for their right of occupancy to the country i their pos: | Ce ‘ees, that the American continents were not hence | jivite her trem Se “icing: Eas Mr, Buchanan ovafoenda. | -seetion sequire any sight: ot torereiguty. or. ccoupe Mem ‘Obligation to cease her inferpos!tions in the affairs of Cen | fact. The Mosquitos wre not our alies, they wore not | cexion given up to Nicaragua, would, 1 believe, cause | furth to be considered subject to colovization by European | the two conditions of a sovereignty andof a protectorate, | over such canals or railways, whilst they caref ex- tral America, and to confine herself to the enjoyment 0° | a people we wore bound by treaty to Venger not were | the British government to abandon their protectorate | powers. end under this error treats the agreement “ nat to colo- | clude themselves from having any exclusive coatrol over bor limivod rights in the Belize. She has by this treaty of | there anything like the number of British subjects there | over them. Assurance of this is given to the United | 't'“itat no claim on the part of Great Britain to act in | nize, nor occupy. nor fortify, not assume, nor exercise | them, and from receiving trom them any exclusive pri- 1850 obliged herself not to occupy or enlonize any | that had deca stated, the number having boem, accord- | Sigies. Such a course would net-in my opinion, be sn | the name, or urder the authority of the Mosquito In- | dominion over,” as including am agreement not to pro- | vileges. y ucknewrledgroent, dircetly or by impliestfon, of the right- | vans, could be well founded, inasmuch as that raze, Wh seipeet to sovercigury, Creat Britain never | 1 is unnecestary further to discuss the construction of r b a teen ful interference by the government of Great in in | even if never conquered by Spain, were savages, whe, | claimed, and dces not now claim, or hold any sovercignty | the treaty with reierence to the protection of , she stil asserts the right to hold possession of, | procured §by. contract, if the noble Lord pleased.) a sti- | {he Mosquito question. ‘The sequel of the agreement be- according to the practice ‘08, plod "es of all i ase but with respect to the taste quitos, That her Majesty's government merely expreaset ‘and to exercise control over large districts of that | ylation that the King of Spain would not punish those | tween Messrs. Webster and Crampton, avout which ine | hencas Sian way noes acquired territory on the conti Britain has long exercised over Mosquito, | now that view ot the treaty which it entertained, an@ spyntry and important istands in the Bay of Hondurae— | Ihitish subjects and the Musquitos who had possessed | quiry is mace by you, was an instruction to Mr. Kerr, | rent ot Ametion, had ue title: to rankeas ndoveetce | yet Majesty's government asserts that the treaty of 1850 | which it had umderstood that the government of the the unquestionable appendages of the Central Americaa | thcmeeives, improperly, of the rights bel nging to the | the Charge. d’Affairs of the Cnit tes to Nicaragua, | States in the territory they occupied, but had a claim to } did not, and was not meant to, anuihilate such protec- | United s'x\es entertained when the treaty was concluded, ‘States, Spent crown, ani in cousejuence of such it~ | directing bim to present the agreement to the Nicara: | mere cecupacy thercon, such territory being the domin, torate, but. simply to confirm its power and limit its in- | is evideu: {rum the fact that within little more than « This juriadiction is not less mischievons im its effects, | regular possession, had persisted for a course | guan government for its assent thereto. ion of the discoverer of it, or even of the discoverer of | fluence. Now, the spirit of the treaty must always be | month alter the treaty of 1860 had been ratified, her thor lees objectionable to us, because it is covertlyex- | of time, but’ with fiequent —_iuterruptim He complied with the instructions, but the application | territory on the same continent, though far distant from | inferred from the circumstances under which it takes | Majesty's Minister at Washington en‘ered into further precnee, arty, cA vote iM port uae ae ersoanientict spe Has please Hegre gepelee ie rejectedy Mr. ara was alse sent to the Eepabis of | it, by whom alone this claim to’ mere oceupincy on the | place, and the true construction of a treaty must be de- negotiations with tbe government of the Uuited States re- y ve cs id etna nf bine! eel Costa Nica as a speci mt o! ver with in- b | d “« ite: se yed ii ve ‘ition of nito, interpreting t! ea! Sune” RaTAPRIAT poveciovent eet Greet ther aeestteeee | eel ee eects, © Zaameac AG Com ns a special agent of the goverment, with in- | part ot the Indians was to be extinguished by purchare, | duced from the literal meaning of the words employed in | lative to the position of Mosquito, interpreting ty structions to present th ent to the considerati F " chi ant pi i 3 ler which cs her Majesty’, t now interprets it. That Of om, except that which is sreated by British authority | far trom arguing we has bocm contended that. we had | fyiictim,{ Prevent the arguisen This he did mad it | of, the advances of the white settlement rendered neces: | its framing. The circumstances unter which the treaty | ax her Majesty’s government now interprets i ~ Part of Central America, or to exercise any domi. | ing to the last report from thence, only one hundred and nion therein. Notwithstanding these stipulations | twenty men and sixtecn women. The fuet was, we had ‘ tary. Ané, finally, that Great Britain having declared | cf 1850 took place were the following :— there was nothing extraordinary, urnatural or unfair im \ -_ And upheld by Briieh power. uniformly remained in the quiet and unuestionable pos- | Was accepted by the Coste ee novernineat, The Tee art, { ie i mee tee : i Svar tive chupsi| the meerpeotacion ania etvan te the legate er list Bad ‘This anomalous state of things is exceedingly annoying | rersion of our claim to the territory, ho called upon the | tent har no spare copy of the documen: containing, the | ‘ay eaty;,:2 1660, that she would neither: colonize, for- | | Up to Maren, 1840... one whole year after the cap- pra govicunibal (a SiCAly extiank ona thectiee eae the 4 ini i Ss Ni us y the F to the States of Central America, and but little less so to | noble Viscount Stormont to declaré,’ ax mam ot houor, | Ictter of Lord ralmers:on to Me. Castellon, asked (ot by CUM AeeRPY, BOF assume dominion, over Mosquito or | ture of San Juan de Nicaragua by ‘he ni " al America, was thereby at all events bound to | Unired States government made no observation, as it has | such intezpre‘ation was at once accepted by the Secre- the United States; for through the Bay of Honduras and | whether he did not know the contrary.” you, but if you wiPturn to the tenth volume of the Exe- | withdraw ber protection trom ths poople ani territory of | sivenoy Lace tated re tke Beitah government, having | tery of State—Mr. Webster—than whom no statesman at across Home of there States Hes one of the most desirable The purport of Lord Stormont’s answer is not given. | cutive Documents, ficst session, thirty-first Conzress, | the Mesynitox, and moreover to deliver up Ruatan, Which } sny allurion to this act. the time living, whether in Europe or America, was mere routes to dur possessions on the Pacific. This inter- | Lord Rawdon, however, defended bis motion, ant Pro- | page 04, the letter referred to may there be found. As | was an island belonging te Honduras, a Central American But in November, 1849, Mr.Lawrence, then just arrived | fitted to comprebend the spirit or apalyze the wording ef Serence, Wwill be reesllected, did not assume marked | duced eome documents by General Dalling, whea Governor | 1: regards your inquiry about the oumber ot the Mosqur | Late” merece: nevertheless, had’ recently been colo: | in England, ax the representative of the United Staves | any internasional obligation, and that her Majesty's row. vsharacter unt our acquisition of Culifornis. of Jamaica, to prove that a superintendent had been | 19 Indians. 1am unabie to assertaia with uny degree of | j,ized and occupied by Great Britain. government, addreseed a note to Lord Palmerston, not | ernment was not at that timo, and is not now, animated by. Great Britain shOuld be trancly avsured that the policy | seat over to the settlement on the Musquito shore at that | ccetainty what that number i Such are the main peints brought forward by Mr. Bu- | xsking any question ax to the British protectorate of | any such object as that of obtaining any pecullar intluence wae re eae cla iy Tolitical. b pierre ged tithe Lord Chaccurlod repli That he was aware of the | | 8% “iF Texpesttully your obedient servant, chenan, in the statemen! which he has delivered to hec | Mosquito, but requesting to know whether her Majesty’s | or control over the river San Juan, or the @ inal that may Commerce, this government Daltlnr atta ‘at nor, desires application for x charter, but ho wished tie noble W. 1. MARCY Majesty ’s government. government would join with the United States in guaran- | bs formed from its waters, is likewise demonstrated te BU d Re ‘. eaki yssess! hi a il o ip canal, ne ci iting, that the object . ‘edvant in our intercourse with the nationsonthis | lord bad mentioned the answer that was given MK. BUCHANAN ee MARCY. It_ in speaking of the possessions held by Great Britain | teeing the neutrality of a ship canal, railway or other Gre cence? worth noting, that the object wi any ; s “ v 19, revious to 1830, on the coast of Central Americn (the | communication between the two occans, to be open to | Great Britain had in view in pursuing these turther ne- ‘ pore vr Hic Dine bea elt oe Aa etl tiny Wine eorke bank roadinientant secon Jani0x oF Tem Uxterp Srarss, > | tettlement cf Belize excepted) Mir. Buchanan menoy (oes | eae ton et ee Ae ton and Whether the | gotiations with the United Statca, was that of withdraw. he avl: to accomplish, is to inguce Great Briteiato with. | ua view to the extabliahinent of a sepular council, ete, did | git pave the homor Er Fpl aise ne er OSH. 5 his expressions should apply to that district which ia | British government intenccd to occupy or colonize Nica- | ing her protection from the very town called Greytowm ge the receipt, of | called the Mosjuito country, it 1s proper that her Majes- | rugua, Contu Rica, the Musyufto censt, so called, or any | or of 19th Novem. | ty’s goverment shoul! at once slate, that her MaJesty has | part cf Central America. To this note Lord Palmerston | and of placing tbe aime fn the hands of some vely. vever held any possessions whatsocver in the Mosquito | teplied by stating that her Majesty’s government had no | American State, on conditions in no wise benoficial to “ ® | | country, But although Great Britain held no possesttons | intention to occupy er colonize Mearagna, or Costa | herself, cr only beneficial im so fir ax such conditions draw fromail control over the territories and islands of | not by any means prove Unt the government at home ”y Central America, and, if possible, over the Melize aleo, | liad countenance the gcleme. He referred the neble 7 and to abstain from interme?d! with the political af- | ord to what had heen before stated, relative to the con- ‘thirs of tne governments and people in that region of the | duct of Governor Lytileton in 1763,'and of Lo-d George * orld. ‘this object is the more earnestly desired br the | Germaine in 1777, ne an amy!e prot thal, let what would Wnived States, av it is apparent that the tendoney of | lave been the state of the Mos uitoshoze, or the opmion events in that quarter is to give a foothold to British | ofthis country in 1744 or 1713, the ilea of settling there power there, in contravention of the policy waich this | had been changed complote pd the ations in Juan de Nicaragua, and the adjoining territory, yoar despatehes, Nos, g' ng Cente re not deemed it visable to press the Cen rat n negutiation with Jord Clarendcn in Noveraber. for this éelay have been the unsetiled condi- he British Cabinet, in consequence of the resigna- tion ot Lord Vaimerstoa, and his cubeequent withdrawal in the Mosquito country, she undoubtedly exercise! a | Tica, the Musauito const nor any part of Central Ameri- | tended'to maintain stateoi peace and tranquility in that scent and exiensive insiuence over it as the protecting | ca, ard that her Majesty’: government wontd feel great | part of the world to whish they related, and to pre- vily of the Mosquito king, that king or chiet having jleasure in ermbining and co-operating with the govarn- | serve the Mosquito in a torritory bordering that whieh asionally been crowned a Jamaica under the auspi ment of the United States for the purpose of assinting the | was to be ceded, in an inoffensive state of neutrality ama tion of p of the British authorities, The United states govern- | operations of a company which might be forme! with a | security, Foverrment is resolved to sustain. ; recently abandoned and wit! ie heehee that mg the it with the | frem Bie { mm recog pendence of m Great Britain fhowever, by having placed people under g ‘tor the further detay n of Mr, Buchanan's sutement to which they To shw that hee privilege is thus eircumseribed, ip, apolog L Spaia and ey t! 185 ; ‘ ae + whee hat bas taken pl wing to the Easter holidays ‘reat Britain should make such a stipvlation, | Ler protection who were in possession of the post and } Juve been intended to reply. ae Seraeeol the. Goney to wilh 1 fixto aoiale. Ae" Hog to ah alls’ of Gene | “be-ncercsty cf cencullieg vome of any [is sciheduns the fact of doing ao rather proves that she thought | tewn of san Juan de Nieacagra, svight exert, her infin | Hut, although the connection of Grevt Britsin with ‘oore J ite ie ‘ en mde to pervert t vie tone | I therefore trust you will encounter but } #40 were cut of town.’ Yours, very r tft eciol stipulation nece that she did not con. | ence eltber to prevent this enna! hetmg formed, or if she | Mosqufto formed one of the subjects of Mr. Buchanan's lavorered attemp' has been n 0 pe \. there L yor Nt vain t ne ple the pr ndecd ed under any JAMES BCOHANAN, Hon, W. 1. Maney, Secretary of State. ME. LAWRENCE TO LORD PALMERSTON, her subject, not less important, ix ty in inducing her to a m of Dridsh Honduras, Ruatan and the pect thece I A rican que pect he. guage is too precise and explicic to give pl ity 10 Buch en efioct. That article stipulates (L quote the lan- guage of the treaty) that “Her Britannic Majosty's ubjecta, and the other colonists who have hitherto on Jjoyed the protection of Kegland, shall evacu “lowes it to be formed, might aleMurough we protec. | communication, orate, as acquiring over such canal the actual eopuit lute control Bey Islands, ‘The government ot the United States was therefore justly Twas nover in the contemplation of her Majesty's rxious to know whether the Briti ld | covermment, nor in that of the government of the United eit with it, is in has seen fit to led to the extent, under such in- My Dean Lown tt to time do-tre, or

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