The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-06

government of Yucaan, special mission her Msjesys
superintendent 10 claim for his the benefit OF
the treaty OF 1885, entered into between their Mseses the
Kings OF Great Britain and Spain In that treaty there is
clause which would appear TO bear directly Oh the existing
state OF affairs in Yucatan Ii is to the following effect
Here follows the stipulation which have quoted The
Times than continues:
1--WE unable to communicate the grounds which
we learn that her Maess superintendent has declined to
admit the applicability Of the treaty II be,
however known to ALL that ofe neghborng Spanish
republics be properly said TO have inherited the rights
which the Spanish Crown possessed in this part the world
As question umanity however, it much be desired
that all the caution which can be exercised by mer-
chants, should be exercised TO prevent powder arms
being sold TO the Indians and even as matter Of mercan
e speculation, We think chat II will usually be of
more Importance to our trade with Yucatan to aid in re
I blshng oder in that province by refusing 10 supply
have received on this subject"
These remarks in the of strong appeal to
the humanity of the merchants Ii does appear by this
article what effort the British authorities Balze have
made, If any, to prevent the sale of and ammunition
TO the Indians But does appear that they deny the OBJ
legation OF the treaty of 1876 And, certainly the in
ference 49, that they have nerposed from motives of
humanity, and prohibited the traffic for if they had. this
appeal by newspaper to the humanity of the merchants
would have been superfuous
Mr.. President would be very harsh judgment sup
pose that the British authorities at Baze had encouraged
this traffic for the purpose of expeng the Spanish race
facilitating the extension Of the dominion of their
sovereign Even if it for the interest of Great
Britain to do So such superstition should not be made
without the strongest evidence But sir do not think 1t
unreasonable harsh suppose this encouraged
by British traders who have pecuury interests there and
whose gains might be increased by the expulsion Of the
Spanish race for In that event. the whole peninsula would
fall under the dominion of the Indians British subjects
would more readily gain foohold there: having
gained it, they would be protected by their government
and would not be surprising the protection of Great
Britain extended the Indian population 1t appears to
me that we cannot doubt such probability without wuly
closing eyes against light This process of extension
is in progress at the very when discussing
and doubling it. Let state few facts in reference
the settlement at Baize which have already referred
1t first recognised specifically as British settlement by
the treaty of Versailles in 1885, though there provision
in the trparte treaty OF 1853, Chat which terminated the
old French war here recognising the right Of Great Britain
to occupation in that quarter generally But the treaty of
1888 the first in which the settlement is distinctly recog
nised The right of occupation given for specific
purpose II gave only the right to cut logwood, build
houses and magazines for the of the workmen
and their families, and TO enjoy free fishery for their sub
sis,ence the Great Britain expressly stipulated
demosh all fortihcations if there any, and
The sovereignty of Spain was distinctly reserved
The limits of the territory which these advantages
to be enjoyed, carefully defined have traced them
thousand square miles, if rivers Hondo and Baze, the
northern and southern boundaries accurately laid do
BY the treaty Of 1886 they extended south to the river
Sibun, making at the utmost of four five thou
sand square miles, According to Arrowsmiths London
Atlas, published in l8A0 that settlement has Of
fourteen thousand mies-three times original
tent Nor is this all. BY the Encyclopedia Britannica,
and Martins British Colonies is claimed have
of more than 600 square miesa surface exceeding that
Of the entire peninsula Of Yucaan In what direction
proposed to extend the settlement order comprehend
these sixty seventy thousand square miles of surface
does not appear 1t is left in doubt by the respectable
hores have named under the most Typographical dec
araton that the inland boundaries i'll defined" though
they critically defined by the treaties of 1888
and 1856 With this shadowy boundary, which leaves
everything undetermined excepting on the side of the bay Of
Honduras the where nature has drawn line which
man conno make uncertain may be defined hereafter
into Yucatan, southwest into Guatemala southeast into
Honduras and in the latter form junction with the
territories of the Mosquito king.
And by the way, the name of this newly created sove
further SOUTH which not very easily dscredited BY
the treaty of Versailles Great Britain stipulated that her
subjects should abandon all other portions of the Spanish
continent and retire within the limits of the settlement at
Bale BY the treaty of London she stipulated
the country OF the Mosquitoes co noins as well as the con-
nent In general and the islands adjacent without excep-
lion. believe she did evacuate them, and not
that she has occupied the country of the Mosquitoes again
her name. But she has done what is equivalent
occupation she has taken the king of the Mosquitoes under
her protection she has assumed to define the limits of his
dominons she has given notice the Central and South
American governments that they not interfere with
those limits she has ships the coast and troops into
INTERIOR maintaining the former there under the of
the Mosquito navy. She is encroaching on the Central
American Smles attacking forts, approprang territory
and making on the people 1t is only about month
ago, that learned she had attacked and taken possess
sion of the town of Nicaragua and killed some seventy
eighty of the Central Americans. She has recently sent
black troops there only from Jamaica, but from New
Providence, the confines of Florida to maintain the
authority of the Mosquito king, the chief of band of naked
Indians, himself scarcely elevated the social scale
than his followers His throne sand-hi his sceptre
reed his robe blanket he puts armies and fleets notion
speaks to the nations through the mouths of British dplo
mass and nvades the territories of neghborng States by
and land with
-" royal banner and all quality,
Pride, pomp and circumstance OF glorious war;
do not hesitate say that broad farce this has
been enacted with much gravity by respectable
State. 1t would be farce under all its aspects, not
for the encroachmens upon the Central American States Of
which it is the To them it is of the
rous import and has met their solemn and repeated pro-
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military bill before the Senate, that Great Britain has
Gently set up claim to San Juan de Nicaragua, and
prophesed that tme from the indications that
she would distant PERIOD take orcibe possession of
that place. She has done already The prophecy has
become history written, like many other transactions of
the nature in letters of blood also stated, that
Of the great objects Of this extension to command
for ship canal the continent narrowed there
to shmus This route has been critically surveyed and
examined from the Caribbean sea- up the river San Juan,
lake Nicaragua, from lake Nicaragua to lake Leon and
from lake Leon Reaejo the Pacific. Surveys draw
ings, maps, pans diagrams, esmates-everythng that
and precedes the construction of public works.
have been carefully prepared believe these evidences
aud achievements of high intellectual and social civza
ton, pretended be the work of the Mosquito
king but it would be surprising her claim to execute
this enterprise of uniting the two oceans should be
asserted in his name-cerainy not more surprising than
other things which have been recently done under the
same auspices.
! The San Juan de Nicaragua is one degree south
Of the southern limit of the Mosquito territory According
British maps, that territory extends only to the l2h
degree of north latitude The river empncs into the Carb
bean the 18th parallel But it has recently been
claimed that extends the 1lh, with intmaon ms
understand that may possibly extend to the 10th,
| the 9th, which would include part of Panama