The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-15

coffee Cocoa other like acles OF any fabric or man.
ufscurs. by means OF mills or other maehInes wbatso.
ever because settlements Of that kind or the popua-
ton which would follow could be allowed by The Spanish
Crown. which admitted by the treaty itself TO be in
disfu,ably the Of the lands in question The OPP
Grafton Of the treaty OF London was suspended BY the
wars growing out Of the French eyoluton but was
renewed by the treaty OF 1874, which continued in
full force and effect uEt the revolt OF the Spanish
American States. when they BY successful revolution
obtained all the sovereign rights which had before APP
pertsinsd 10 the Spanish Crown. la June. 1917, the
British Parliament passed act TO punish certain crimes
committed by British subjects beyond the British DON i'm
ions That act mentions specially the settlement in the Bay
OF Honduras being under the protection Of the King OF
England, but says expressly within his territory OF
dominons. The ac, OF 1917 reviewed and amended
in 1919. only two years before the reyo OF the Central
American Sales aud remains in force-fuliy recog.
nisng and confirming the fact that England can right
fully claim nothing in British Honduras than the
commercial license granted by the treaties have men
toned.
With regard TO the islands in the bay and gulf Of
Honduras which England has recently seized on she has
the shadow Of title to ,hem-not even the CONNER
Cidl pIVHckts buc clJolb al neHZc. tract Oh
country within which those privileges granted was
accurately defined by the treaties with Spain II the
mainland YET through abundant the exclusion OF
the Brish from the adjacent islands was not left TO i'm
picalion but stated in express terms The treaty
of 1858 gives the English, who may resort to British
Honduras for the purpose OF cutting wood the right OF
fishery the coast Of the opposite islands, with the
press pToviso that they should not establish themselves
any the said islands By the treaty OF 1856
renewed in 1914. the islands adjacent 10 the Central
American coast We're required 10 be evacuated by the
British, and other privilege granted them those
islands further than that involved in the permission 10 re
pair of them, Casna Saint Georges Key 10 es-
cape the diseases of the coasta permission which was
particularly limited the object for which il was granted
and coupled with the engagement that no Notifications
should be erected there These points are conclusive
but yet they not necessary for conclusions
much the Bay Islands. which England has seized are
not, and never wsre dependencies OF British Honduras,
Of Guatemala, in which British Honduras is situated
They several degrees distant from that coast while
they lay within sight of the republic Of Honduras and
sttule part Of its territory. When Honduras became
State these islands taken possession Of by her a
,horties, and occupied without dispute question In
1880 the English authorities at Belize seized on one
OF them, but the act disavowed by the British gov
eminent These facts prove. independent of the pointed
and conclusive provisions OF the treaties with SPAIN that
the Bay Islands not dependencies of British Hondu
as and that even admitting The supplementary condition
to the Clayton Buwer treaty. they embraced by that
CLAUSE which forbids the British colonize any par,
of Central America That treaty was ratified in July
1880 yet the British government has paid respect to it's
provisions. Being permitted to adhere to the Mosouto
pro,ecora,e and maintain the possession OF San Juan
by the imbecile and tmid counsels which control the
executive branch Of the government England has been
emboldened to seize portion OF Honduras aud es.
abIsh new colony in Central Americas if in dsrsion
Of our repeated declarations 10 European colombo
ton. and Of her treaty engagements u.s. We trust that
the time has nearly passed by when the rights of the
United States may be outraged with impunty.