The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-10 00:00:00

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me King of Mosquitia ( a Cerrito
the " Mosquito shore") has issued a 140,0,vvifiney
the purpose of regulating and registe Orktf6. *&- um
made in that country to European settlers.
As this brings the subject under our notice, it
may not be uninteresting to give some account of
the present state of this country, which is not
a little singular, in reference to its connexion
with British subjects, Its extent is about the same as
England ; it possesses several fine harbours, is watered
by numerous rivers, enjoys a salubrious climate and a fer-
tile soil, and is in every way admirably adapted for colo-
uisation, the more especially as it is in this immediate
vicinity that the projected communication between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans will probably be made.
The present King is a minor. The late King, his
father, dying
a few years ago, left a will, in which he
appointed certain Englishmen to be guardians to his
children and administrators of the affairs of the kingdom
during the minority of his son. These gentle-
men were the Commandant at Belize, a neigh-
bouring British settlement ; the chaplain to the
station, and two or three other gentlemen of that place,
with power to fill up any vacancies, and to add to their
number. It appears that these persons have entered upon
the duties of their office, for the proclamation, although
in the name of the King, is stated to be " with the advice
of his guardians." It also appears from the terms of the
proclamation that a new regulation is to be enforced
with respect to grants of land, which we understand has
become necessary in consequence of certain grants having
been fraudulently obtained, and in some instances con-
flicting claims made for the same land.
The sovereignty of this valuable country has been re-
peatedly offered to the British Crown, and the offer has
as often been daiined. We will not now stop to inquire
into the wisdom of such refusal ; but it is evident that
the British Government is not disposed to suffer such a
territory to become a dependency of any other Power,
from the fact that they have recently accredited an
agent to that kingdom, and from their having deputed
the superintendent of Belize to attend the coronation of
the King as the representative of the British Sovereign.
We must, therefore, consider Mosquitia as an indepen-
dent kingdom, and its Sovereign as an acknowledged ally
of the British Crown.
We have reason to believe that a German company
are in treaty for a grant of land in the vicinity of Cape
Gracias a Dios, and that a large grant has been ob-
tained by an English company for the purpose of plant-
ing a colony on the Black River, a small number of set-
tlers being already established at Bluefields. Coloniza-
tion being once commenced, it is probable the tide or
immigration will flow strongly towards these shores.
Near the sea the climate resembles that of the West
Indies ; near the mountains it resembles that of Europe;
consequently, the soil produces the sugar-cane and
the indigo plant in one district, while it grows wheat and
turnips in another. With these natural advantages
this country can only require proper manage-
ment to make it prosper ; we hope, there-
fore, that the system of colonization to be
adopted for this country may be of such a character
that the aborigines may derive solid advantages from
it, instead of its proving, as elsewhere, the cause of
their destruction. The attempt to civilise the Indian
has too often ended in his extermination. We hope this
may not be the case in the present instance, but that the
persons in whose hands have been placed in so unusual a
manner the destinies of this people, will not lose sight of the
grand objeet of their trust—the prosperity of the King their
ward, and of the people who are entrusted to their care ;
but, by adopting wise and prudent measures they may
have the proud satisfaction of exhibiting to the world
the unwonted spectacle of a tribe of Indians benefited
and civilized by their contact with Europeans, taking
their place among enlightened nations. The following
is the

PROCLAMATION.
" We, George, by the grace of God King of Mos-
quitia (otherwise called the Mosquitia territory) acting
by the advice of the guardians appointed under the will
of our late father Robert Frederick, King of Mosquitia,
do ordain and it is herby ordained accordingly—
" 1. All persons, not being our natural born subjects,
who claim the right of bolding land in perpetuity
within our kingdom by virtue of grants from the Crown,
shall without loss of time produce before us, or before
the guardians aforesaid, their several grants, or such
other papers on which they found their claims, for the
purpose of being registered.
"2. All grants of land that shall appear to us, or to
the guardians aforesaid, to have been justly and properly
obtained, or to which the parties shall be found to have
otherwise an equitable title, shall be registered in the
offices of Government at Bluefields.

4'3. The ()emission of land by all persons, not being
natives of our kingdom, which shall not be duly regis-
tered as aforesaid, is illegal, and such land shall be in
revert to the Crown.

" 4. All our magistrates are directed to facilitate the
registration of grants within their respective jurisdic-
tions, and to dispossess and expel from their usurped
lands all occupiers (not being natural-born subjects of
our kingdom) whose claims have not been duly re-
gistered. _

"5. Claims for registration may be made, at the op
tion of the claimants, either at the residence of Mr.
David Kilpatrick, clerk of the courts at Bluefields ; or
in England, at the office of Messrs. Barron and Smith,
army agents, No. 4, Upper Charles-street, Westminster,
London. " In the name of the King,
"GEORGE HODGSON,
" Court-house, Bluefields, Acting Commandant.
12th day of February, 1846."

A. FRIGHTFUL ILLUSTRATION Or
SLAVERY. •
The following is the leading editorial article in the
last Essex Transcript (American paper) :—" Many of
our readers have probably seen a paragraph stating that
a young slave-girl was recently 'tangent New Orleans,
for the crime of striking and abusing her mistress.
The religious press of the north has not, so far as we
are aware, made any comments upon this execution.
It is too busy pulling the mote out of the eye of the
Heathen, to notice the beam in our nominal Christianity
' at home. Yet this case, viewed in all its aspects, is an
atrocity, which has, God be thanked, no parallel in hea-
then lands. It is a hideous offshoot of American Re-
publicanism and American Christianity. It seems
that Pauline—a young and beautiful girl—at •
tracted the admiration of her master, and being, to
use the words of the law, his " chattel personal to all
t intents and purposes whatsoever," became the victim of
his lust. So wretched is the condition of the slave-
woman, that even the brutal and licentious regard of her
master is looked upon as the highest exaltation of which
her lot is susceptible. The slave-girl in this instance,
evidently so regarded it; and, as a natural consequence,
in her new condition triumphed over and insulted her
mistress—in other words, repaid in some degree the
scorn and abuse with which her mistress had made her
painfully familiar. The laws of the Christian State of
Mississippi inflict the punishment of death upon the
slave who lifts his or her hand against a white person.
Pauline was accused of beating her mistress, tried, and
found guilty, and condemned to die. But it was dis-
covered on the trial that she was in a condition to be-
come a mother, and her execution was delayed until
the birth of the child. She was conveyed to the prison-
cell. There for many weary months, uncheered by the
voice of kindness, alone, hopeless, desolate, she waited
r miserable death.etin,
' for the advent of the new and quickening life within her,
be the
called
alied to ma hersown
signal of wAhnidchthwe
"bells he
and Methodists sang, and Baptists immersed, and Pres-
byterians sprinkled—and young mothers smiled through
s an d
prayer-meeting,,
m e
tears upon their new-born children; and maidens anti
matrons of that great city sat in their cool verandahs
and talked of love and household joys and domestic
happiness—while all that dreary time, the poor slave.
girl lay on the scanty straw of her dungeon, waiting
with what agony the dear and pitying God of the white,
and the black only knows, for the birth of the child of
her adulterous master. Horrible ! Was ever what
George Sand justly terms " the great martyrdom of
condi-
tions? ma-
ternity"—that
voicesdalT.
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What
aatt unspeakable—enduredfwe
aa
sr fearful
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substitutewhich
fuonr
det alone
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suchue:riven:
titEtnonsi t?):j
and gentle soothings of affection? The harsh
grew
of her prison lock—the mockings and taunts of ung
feeling and brutal keepers ! What with the P
Pauline took the place of the hopes and joyful
an-t3's
pations which support and solace the white mother , anti
a make her couch of torture happy with sweet oreams ?
The prospect of seeing the child of her sorrow,
feeling its lips upon her bosoni, of heartn its feeble
cry--alone, unvisited of its unnatural father; and
then in a few days, just when the mother's affec-
tions are strongest, and the first smile of her infant
compensates for the pangs of the past—tho
fthroem
mu,.
scaffold and the hangman d Think of that lart
her
taerzisb,!ethsceendee—a
tthh-em
atearing o ot fh e the gallows,
arfeo_rth
of,.d.
around her delicate neck, and her long and dreadki
struggles—(for, attenuated and worn by physical suffer-
ing and mental sorrow, her slight frame had not sufficient
weight left to produce the dislocation of her neck, on the
infaalnliintgy. of tli e
Mothers d ro p
of)
New win gi n g
England t h e r e
!suchalive
half an hour—a spectacle for fiends, in the she f b nearly
of slavery. 0, in the name of the blessed Gocle;its
and to pity its victims. ' 'Pettyteach
your children to hate it,
yid acnosncrrndedenliePsttY empty-headed d e„clh OCn
''honour
un
rg r eos
o£ the
debatersthe c ocountry',
n aretry ~
should be compromised in the matter of the Oregon
vaspolittl
boundary. Fools !—one such horrible atrocity as this
murder of poor Pauline, " compromises" us too deepli
to warrant any further display of their patriotism. t
would compromise Paradise itself. An intelligent and
philanthropic European gentleman who was in New.
Orleans at the time of the execution, in a letter to a,
friend in this vicinity, after detailing the circumstanc es
of the revolting affair, exclaims, " God of gocdne4, i
God of justice I—there must be a future state to re:aresa
the wrongs of this. I am almost tempted to say, there
must be a future state, or no God !"

EXECUTION of PIER--'=RE LECOMTE.
This unhappy man was guillotined on Monday at six o'clock, at the Barriere St. Jacques.Everyammonrunei morning,
the place was so barred up by military and police, that the.
people were completely excluded from all approach to the
scaffold. The prisoner, in conformity with his sentence,
walked barefooted, and with a black veil over his face, from
the prison across the garden of the Luxembourg, on leaving
which he mounted a cart, attended by the Abbe Grivel, for
whom he seemed to have formed a sort of affection, and in
whose hands he was quite docile. On arriving at the place of
execution, he was at once placed upon the guillotine, and in
a moment all was over.
The King was, according to public accounts, disposed to.
wards
nesswhne
elilrhT for he
nite7cLeeeiveedmiStef.,sDpuevtietrigenie,r
evrtildth great kind.,
sent for the Chancellor and Minister of Justice; but the re.
suit shows that those personages could not see any ground for
advising his Mgjesty to interfere with the ezeotio of the
sentence.