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the Hicar.xua Qasssioa.-The British claim 60 I'm
tsrssrs Furthsr Considered. The aChigger" King.
In last article upon the Nicaragua question, we
went into elaborate investigation Of the right which
Great Britain has set up to the control of the Mosquito
territory and the claim. based upon her pretended rights
in that territory, TO interfere with any treaty arrange
ment which may be entered into by the Ued States and
the government Of Nicaragua for the construction Of
shpcanal other iner-oceanic communication the
territory Of the latter and proved by the strongest
possible tesmonyvz by three several solemn treaties
entered into between Great Britain and Spain concerning
the countries OF Central America and the matters con-
nected with the English intrusion and settlement in
them. and by sundry British mapsthat Great Britain
while Spain held sovereignty over those countries had
country. We showed that even in the Belize and Hon
duras the British were the first place. mere
upon the territories Of Spain. having ob,ruded themselves
into those territories for the pretended purpose of cutting
and carrying away dye-woods; that these intrusions
were the subject Of negotiation between the two govern
ments. and that they finally licensed and permitted
by the King Of Spain 10 remain and to cut such woods
within certain prescribed limits lying far above the Mos
quito territory; and that in the three several treaties en-
tered into between Great Britain and Spain the former
acknowledged the sovereignty Of Spain in the coun-
tries Of Central america, including The Mosquito terri
tory, and agreed to compel her subjects to retire from
them.
Thus, while Spain held the sovereignty over those
countries, the British government had not shadow Of
right in them, except what conceded by Spain in the
treaties before mentioned, which was mere license to
the subjects OF the former to cut and carry away dye
woods.
When the States of Central America revolted from
Spain, the right Of sovereignty, OF course. he revolution
being successfully passed from Spain to the people Of
those States Nicaragua is one Of those States and the
Mosquito country was, when under the dominion OF
Spain, and now is, part OF the territory OF Nicaragua;
and matter of course, when the sovereignty Of Spain
became extinct in the Mosquito country il passed over
and became vested in the State Of Nicaragua.
Such being the state OF things at the time when Spain
lost the dominion over her territories in Central America,
and they became independent States, it remains to
inquire, How Great Britain obtained her rights in the
Mosquito country upon which she bases her claim to in
teriere in any treaty arrangement which the United
States may enter INTO with the State OF Nicaragua
speeding the construction Of inter oceanic communica
ton across the territory Of the latter This question
we now propose TO consider.
So far as we have been able to ascertain, by very
careful investigation Of the subject, the and SUBJ
stance of her claim will be found stated in the following
brief and significant paragraph from one OF her own
writer's who, in the work from which we extract has
taken particular pains set forth the whole grounds Of
the British claims inthe Mosquito territory We allude
to John MacGregor In his Progress of America" vol
Up 726. he says:
About three year. ahe the conquest of jamaica 1885,
the English frequented Yuca,an 70 cut and carry away
ogwood and the British settlements in that country
originally settled with the free of the aboriginal and
indspssd snt possessors VI the coumfry.
Il will be well for the reader to mark well this para
graph for it states in fact the whole foundation OF the
British claim.
In the paragraph which we have just quoted from
MacGregor he states hew the British got into Yucatan
Afterwards, in the manner, they got into Honduras
and the Mosquito country; all which countries then
under the sovereignty and dominion Of Spain Il by
mere intrusion trespassers without right They went
there with the consent OF the aboriginal and independent
possessors OF the country" rho had sovereign rights
IN he territory, and therefore vaid consent 10 gips
but they did not 60 with the consent Of Span who had
sovereign rights in them, and the only power that
could give consent, as the British government itself
Acknowledges in the three several treaties above alluded
to, extracts from which copied into last article
We have now shown hop the British got into Yueaian
Honduras, and the Mosquito country.
Again, on page 72s OF the same work above quoted
MacGregor says:
How far YpIaian pretend any right over Belize
Central America the Mosquito Shore question for
public jurists decidewe deny any such right Spain
has relnquished her sovereignty, AND Great Britain the
only Eroeo~ yoo phoh has ocewyhd Belize and the
Moqsifo shore; that NOT by conga Nth the orig
cal eoxsaf Of the primitive iahabitaan
We now have the British claim and grounds OF IT,
stated In the two paragraphs which we have above
quoted Let anslyze them. and see what they amount
60.
The British originally inruders in Yucatan Hon
dnras. and the Mosquito country They went there, as
asyaese with the consent Of the savage occupants Of