Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-08-30
The Mosquito Kingdom.

The British Consul al New York has issued. by
order of his government, a notification thoroughly
characteristic Of English politics. '.The New York
and New Orleans Steam Navigation Company" have
made contract with the State of Nicaragua, 70 es-
hblish n communication between the Atlantic and
Pacific, which cpnirac, is founded, in part upon the
exclusive right of that Stale to navigate the River ST.
John, and which binds the company to build public
store at ST. John, al the mouth of this river
The British Consul officially informs the company
that, the British government is bound to protect the
rights Of the King Of Mosquito; that, the boundary
line of Mosqueo touches this river thirty miles below
Lake Nicaragua and thnt the jurisdiction of Mos
quito covers the river from this point its mouth,
aud also the port of St. John. called Grey Town by
the English: and that, the State of Nicaragua has
thus made grants in territory where il has jurisdc-
ton.
Truly this is compendious, explicit and quite
English! If the Federal government do not meet it
in style quite American, every American citizen
will have occasion 10 blush The British government
are bound to protect the territorial rights of the King
of Mosquito. Bound by whail BY treaty, con-
ceived and prosecuted in the full spirit of English
fraud and rapacity, by which the king of Mosquito
separates from the Stale of Nicaragua and the repub-
lie of Central America, and placed himself under
British projections. The British inducement TO this
treaty, which the Mosquito King, youthful savage
of Is, signed after being made drunk for the purpose
is-the cesson of his territory the British govern
ment! Thus the British, through their usual ma
chinery of frnud gain footing upon the Gulf coast
of Nicaragua. for the purpose of ultimately stretch
ing 1t TO the Pacific coast, and monopoizng the best
line of communication between the Gulf and the Pa
cifc! Ahem
To suppose that the British consul at New York has
acted upon proper authority involves the superstition
that either the British Secretary of State or the
British minister ut Washington, or both, have
lnsulted government by gross violation of diplo-
mat prophecies. Not yet ready to believe this of
wa hol tho -
authority is legitimate for the OCCASION or any which,
in the premises, he has legal right pronounce
official. What then is his authority! Probably the
interference of justice of the peace port warden
or other petty British officer among the Mos
quitoes perhaps The British Prime Minister of his
Mosquito Majesty! Aud what sort of authority is
| this! Precisely that which government cannot
recognize, which citizens should entirely disre-
gard, and against whom, if they modest our citizens
in any way. government should complain their
masters with demand for redress in one hand, and
sword in the other.
The British story about this Mosquito claim, found
ed on grants by the King of the Mosquitoes, in add-
ton to the utmost cffrontery of British fraud
premely ridiculous, beyond comparison the richest
joke Of the season.
If some agent of the Hudson's Bay should seduce
some Indian chief of Iowa into inoxication, and
when he was dead drunk, put pen in his hand aud
make it trace ''his mark X" 10 a deed by which the
State of Iowa should be cedcd to the British govern
ment, officer of the company should then commu-
nlcate these proceedings to the British Consul at New
York, and the Consul upon this official information,
should notify and warn all persons migrating to the
West against settling in Iowa, which belonged the
King of the Humbugs, who, by treaty, under the
protection of the British government, the would
pc precisely parallel with the which this British
Consul has recently presented at New York. The
whole case, in all its steps, bears the marks Of British
fraud, rapacity and ns lence Let all American cti-
zens treat it accordingly, and let their government
sustain them in doing. Having twice vanquished
the British lion. once in infancy and once in boyhood
work with British mosquitoes. One slap will do their
business.-Pa. Lager