The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-20
rls1rnsra-areat Rritain and the United SAC

We publish this morning some news from Mica /
ragua, received by the Empire City, az New York,
which, in the present state of our relations with |
Great Britain in relation to affairs in that quarter,
is highly interesting
There is great difficulty in learning from the |
official newspapers in Washington what is the ma
ture OF the discussions with Great Britain, or
whether there have been any. The Republic !
which came by yesterdays mail refers to the par
tial denials by the Intellgencer that any corespon
denoe has been had on the subject, and says II is
unable to add any thing to these assurances"
The last report from the North is in the Baltimore
Sun of the 18th, where ii is stated by correspon-
dent ffom, Washington that Mr.. Clayton made
communication to the British Government, not by
Mr.. Bancroft but by Mr. Davis, the Secretaryof
Legation to Mr.. Lawrence, who went cut before
him. The nature of this communication is I'M
known, of course but diplomatic secrets do not
seem to be preserved very closely; and report says
that MF. Clayton has not yet gone any further than
to resist the pretensions of Great Britain to the
elusive navigation of the San Jan by virtue Of the
grant of the mock Mosquito King. The -adyioes
just received furnish a copy of the new contract
between the State and the New York Company,
dated the 9th of August, in which the erclusUe
grant ismade to them ofthe navigation of the San
JUAN for the purposes the ship CANAL to continue
for eightfUe years after the completion of the
nal. This is in direct and renewed conflict with
the claims of Great Britain to any rights in the
river ;-exeept that the company to whom the eXcln-
sive power of control ovst the canal is granted, is
required make no Determinations inits rates of
toll for the transit of vessels between the vessels of
the United States and those Of any other nation.
The conflict about the right Of jurisdiction between
the State and the British Government 4or,the Mos
quito tribe, is thus formally renewed in direct
tempt for the official notices given by the British
Consul, sustained by his government, that Nicara-
qua has no tide to the sovereignty OF the river.
But this is not the only ominous part Of the intel
igence. There are passages in Mr.. Squiers speech
to the Supreme Director of the Nicaragua Govern
ment which can hardly reconstruct otherwise than
las pledge that the United States will go to war
If need be, to maintain the rights of that State
against any enc1oachmsnt by England. The words
we particularly refer to are these: "We should
also let it be understood that if foreign powers en-
croach upon the territories or invade the rights of
any one of the American Sates they inflict an in.
juryupon ALL which it is alike the duty and deter
Inination Of all to see redressed." In reply the
Director recognised this ans extraordinary inter-
vention,' and felicitated himself upon having ac-
quired the sympathyand support of the Ameri-
can Government"
These are very comprehensive words, and if
they indicate truly the intentions of the admins
tation, they establish new obligations and new
policy, upon which there will be, without doubt,
some very serious differences of opinion in this
county
The present sgnifcancsof the matter is that
Nicaragua'has at this moment controversy with,
Great Britain, in which she complains that her
territories have been seized and her rights invaded
by the British. 1t is in the memory of all that last
year British force did seize upon portion of the
territory Of Nicaragua including part of the ter
ritory over which This contact gives the American
Canal Company exclusive control, and that not
withstanding the remonstrances of Nicaragua, the
invasion has never been disavowed, but the whole
title of Nicaragua is to this day subbornly disputed
In this position Of an exciting controversy with
a European government, we are not surprised that
Nicaragua should feicitate herself on receiving
the assurances Of an American Minister that it is
the duty and determination " of all American
States TO redress the wrongs suffered by each from
the powers of Europe, accompanying the fullest
intmations that the United States have an interest
and design TO maintain the rights Of Nicaragua
in the river San Juan.
No longer ago than the 10th of June, Thomas
Manning, the British Vice Consul at Realeio, ad.
dressed letter to the Principal Secretary of the
Republic, Don Sebastian Salinas, protesting against
the grant to DR.. D. ]. Brown and others, citizens
of the United States, of the right to use the port
of San Juan de Nicaragua, as the terminus of a
shp-canal across the Isthmus, for the reason that
that port rs in The territory Of the Mosquito GoUera-
meit, which Great Britain exercises protecto-
rate. Don Sebastian Salinas replies that the State
Of Nicaragua has never renouneed its undeniable
right to the coast in question, nor recognized in
either the Mosquito or the English Governments
the least claim to it,
We cannot be mistaken in supposing that these
conflicts, and the Intervention of the United States
as announced by Mr.. Squier, present case of a
more grave international controversy than has been
! heretofore supposed TO belong TO this natter
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