Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-05

the Chyton and Bulwcr treaty.
Wsshall content ourselves with very few ex-
tractsfron some standard works to sustain our po-
sition, The Union is called upon to produce sin
gle adhcsity to the contrary. We begin with the
great tandard French work of Matte BRUN, print
ed al PARIS in lS47, page 1875, from which we
makdthe following extract
"Qlone Anglaise.-Sur lie territere de pancien etat
Mexi4in dYucatan, les Angsis possedent, pembou-
churede la Base ryiere qui ette dams Ia bale de
HONDURAS une cohonie composee DE 200 hsbtans Ele
portfolio nom de cclope de Honduras Son shef-ieu est
Balzt petite vile ayec port stue endroit oil la RI
visrelde ce nom Sc jette dams lie mer."
After describing she British settlement as Bri-
tish colony in the ancient State of Yueatan, in
Mexico, at the Belize; river which emptes into
the Bay of Honduras, which British colony SCALED
thecolony of Honduras; M. MALTE BsuN says, page
ZAP, that the ancient Captancy General of 6uate-
malay or confederation of Central Amerma, is bound
ed on the Gulf Of Honduras and the Bay of the
Mosquitoes, and that the constitutions Of Central
America, formerly the Capaincy General of Gua-
temala, was decreed by the National Assembly on
the 22d November, 1924
Darby Gazetteer, published in 1882, states TINT
Honduras bay or gulf is that part of the Caribbean
ca lying between " Honduras and Yucatan." 1t
also informs us that Belize is a river of North
Anaerica IN Y4cataa, falling into the sea Of Hon
sduras; on It's banks the English have their prin.-
scipal settlement for cutting mahogany" &c.
L Bishop Davenport in his Geographical Dictionary
or Gasetseer, published in 1885, agrees with the
former authorities
.at Z = :. ! -t
A copy Of Tanners Atlas, published in 1S43, con-
tains map of Mexico and Guatemala which shows
that the Beliefs notn any part Of Central America
Morse, in his Geography, Published in 1919,
bounds the viceroJalty of Mexico, or New Spain,
on the eastern shore of Yucatan, the southern
province of Mexico, in latitude I50 3O' north, thus
throwing the whole of British Honduras into the
intendancy of Yucatan. Morse thus describes the
boundary between the vceroyalty of Mexico and
the captan-generalship of Guatemala: commenc-
ing "on the Pacific, at the barre de Tomato,
about fifteen leagues east from Hehuantepec and
passing to the northeast at great distance north
of Chiapas and Ciudad Real, till it strikes the bay
of Honduras. The intendancy Of Merida Tin
which Honduras is established sthus comprises the
northern and far greater part of the peninsula of
Yucatan"
The Encyclopedia Americana defines Belize as a
seaport of Mexico, in Yucatan, at the mouth Of
the river Belize" and says it is the only settlement
Jelonging to the British on the coast"
In the French map of Meissas and Michelot, of
1888, the Belize is laid down in Yucatan
In the Encyclopedias of Geography, by Hugh
Murray, revised by Bradford, published in 1887,
page 32s, the author, after speaking of Merida and
Campeachy, on the western side of the peninsula of
Yucatan, says:
On the other side Of the peninsula of Yucatan the
British possess the settlement Of Honduras, extending
along the shore from the Rio Honda to the Liburn The
population consists of about 1000 persons, of whom
about 800 whites and the rest Indians negroes, and
mixed breeds Belize the capital of the settlement is
well built town, both sides Of the river of the
The colony founded for the purpose Of cutting
logwood and mahosauy and its exports 1880 of
NE valae Of 15oo, 900 dollars
Leaving the geographers, let US next see how
statesmen have viewed the subject.
Mr.. BUCHANAN, in his instructions to Mr. HIsE
of the Sd of June, 1S4S, Immediately after Mr..
Hise's appointment as our Minister to Central Anne
RIGA, says: " Its Government was that OF federal
republic, composed of the five States of Guatemala
HonuufaS, NlcaTaSud, Dan Salvador, ana costa
Rica" 1t never entered into his imagination that
Central America embraced any thing more than
these FIVE States as is evident from every part of
these instructions, and frsm all his dispatches on
the subject. Referring to the treaties of 1888
and 1856, between Great Britain and SPAIN he says ::
The country granted to Great Britain under these
treaties was altogether embraced in the present
! British proUince of the Belize, and was remote
from what is now claimed to be the Mosquito
kingdom" He afterwards adds, that Great Bri-
tain has, by successive encroachments, established
the British colony of the Belize" and, viewing the
colony as thus established, Mr.. Polk appointed Mr..
Hampstead consul at the Belize" thus recognis-
ing the colony as British colony. The dispatches
of Mr.. HIsE and Mr. SoUIER, when speaking of
Central America, refer to it as embracing any
thing more than the FIVE States included in the con-
stitution Of Central America. The same is true of
all the published dispatches of CAsTELLoN and
MARcoLErA, and of all the dispatches and publica-
tons of MURPHY and STEPHENS The constitution
of Central America was published in 1923. 1t ex-
cluded the province of Chiapas part of the ancient
kingdom of Guatemala. 1t included only the pre-
sent five States 1t does not pretend to include any
part Of the Belize or British Honduras. In all the
published letters Of Lord PALMERsToS there is not
sentence to be found that is not in perfect unison
with all these authorities. The name Of Central
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