The Arkansas banner., 1849-09-25
tFrOm the NaAAgilie Banner. THE NISQUIf0 kINGD0M.

great deal has been lately said about the "M Mus.
 a.I,o Kingdom" and about British interference
 snd British claims. We confess, that to us, it was
 tsyTz iaesgsaa, lying we knew not where, and
 lnhahitsd by people we kAow not whom For
 Soue information the subject we are indebted to
 the Philadelphia North American. As the article
 is sIeustay' we will endesver tO compress 1t into
 q smaller space The "Masqaito kingdom" says
 that paper .has about the existence de faete as the empire of Presto John had before it. The one was the other is. fables the only difference being that the latter poetical, while the for
 mar !. politlcaI invention" Alter dilieent search amoag Biographies Gazstteers, &c., ths American has ascertained that,
 .The Musq altos are a small tribe, or, rather seveFal small tribes of Indans eecapying part of the esast of Honduras, their principal, csu,Tal seat having always been near Cape Gfaeias Dois In IS deSrees north latitude about four degrees north e( tlss port and river San IEan. UnsA wisAia very few years, tAef r1nge under the ua of the Musquto Shore. never eapponsd to extend further south than Biueaeid river. in l2 degrees north Iatiinde river which hes always figured and perhaps still figures in British Gazetteers, as the boundary between the two old Spanish provinces, now independent States of Honduraa aud NIcara- qua; a the territory south of it. Of coarse, being comprehended within the supposed limits of Nica- ragua IL is only since these Indians have erected
 -or tho British have erected for them--their king Gom' that either have claimed to extend dheir boundary 90 far south as to embrace the port and twe-thirds of the whole river of San Juan. Their claim to such extension never heard of before, and VIC are not able to discover any better fonndA ton for It than the simple, but highly significant fact, as proclaimed In well known British work, 'Bonnycastie's Spanish America published more than thirty years since, that the port of San Juan is looked on the keys of the Americas;' the pos session of which, with the port of kealee, he adds would enable an enemy to 'Paralyse the Spanish eolouies' He nosieesthe strong and well garrisOaed fortress of NuestFa Senora, with water-battery, ditch, guard boats, kc, kept up at Port San Jusn by the Spanish authorities, as well the fortified statiems along the river, 10 prevent any enemy seizing this important position; but he says nothing about British claims Mosquito claims. There was then no Mosquito kingdom
 So much for the location of the "Musq uito king dom.7 The warriors of this tribe of Indians, &C., eording to Bonuycastie, amount 10 about fifteen hundred. with total popuiation of about six thou sand. The Musquito king was made so by the Governor of Jamaica, by investing him with Hilitaay coat and various medals aad Indian trink cts of srifing value; hence from simple chief, possessing greater authority than other Indian chiefs, he became shis Majesty" From this king thus created by an Island Governor, the British derive their elaims--ciaiBs which eff practically persisted in, must change the whole from laagha- ble 10 serious affair, aud the attempt 10 sustain if al the expense of the United States cannot be other wise regarded than presumption if not Wilfu and deliberate insult" With reference to this matter ~bich may create a serious dhcaity between Great Britain and tue United States, the North American says:
 'As early as 1895 the government of Central America proposed, by special envoy, to the gov ernmsnt at Washington to unite with tt la connect ing the two sease by canal along the San Juan and the Lakes, the advantages of which ft desired should be .etfectuaY secured to the two nations " This intended ts be an Exclusive speculation q kind of monopoly between the two republics, which sY- I.. l. =. Al. good brother across the water had not a word to say either on his own behalf or on that of his royal protege. the Masquito ssgamore. The Mosquito kingdom had not then been concocted.
 The very next year, the government ot Central America entered into contract with su American ol ship canal and thls, loo, at the precise moment when an English "Atiantic and Pacihc Canal Con- pany" was both boring the British Parliament for charter aad soliciting, and attempting to buy, gran. of way from the Central American govern Inent itself Here agaia England was qniet, al- though in 6 contest where company of her eiti- Lsns was interested: not a word about Mosquito boundary and Mosquito jurisdiction! And so IL happened four years later, when a similar grant was made ie a Dutch Company. in which the king of Holland was interested; England sileat, Mosquito rights and honor entirely forgotten!
 And in 1885, when. upon a resolution or The Senate, President Jackson sent special agent to Central Americr and New Granada. with the widely proclaimed view of negotiating with their govern meats "sor the purpose of eifsetualiy protecting, by suitable treaty stipuiations, such persons or companies as might undertake 10 open commani- cation between the two Bas-sliil not word about the Mssqaitos; and not a word. even al the last effos. ia 1888. when the poor Central American government at tho Last gasp of it's existence, finding other party willing or able to dig the canal de tsrmnsd to do it themselves, and employed Mf. Bailey. an English engineer. to survey the route for them. Ia ls4D, the survey was hnished-and so was the Central American government 1t fell, leaving behind il the weak and miserabiy distracted States of which 1t has been composed--and poor Nicaragua, now the sole proprietor of tho whole canal route, weak and distracted the others It siaee ths catastrophe that the Mosquito king dom has been created, and the Mosquito boundary forcibly extended by British officials. and British sailors and solders-actng, however, as protect sss' of hts barbarian majesty, net{or themselyes-- to and San Juan river; the port sf San aan and it's old-very sld-eastie of Nuestra SeBora seized; and the garrison and few Nicarsguan resi- deuia not witAoat bioodshed, drived violently away"