New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-21
CENTRAL AMERICA.

Eyerett's letter, is ready TO relinquish her
rtOry in pursuance Of the Clayton Treaty;
but considers herself bound in honor and hui
mainly to do whatever she may in behalf OF
her Mosquito protegfs To all this We make
no objection. But that the United States
should unite with her in cOercing Nicaragua
to acknowledge the independence of Mosquito,
to the prejudice of her own territorial claim,
is very different matter; and we trust our
Government will consider well before deciding
TO embark in it, Great Britain is under obi
cations to US to neither establish nor retain
any territorial possession in the country hith-
erto known as Central America. With this
engagement her PrOtectOrase of Mosquito is
manifesty Incompatible 1t must therefore
be given up and, as the surrender is Obyi-
Ously an affair of some difficulty and delicacy,
it is but right that she should have time 20
fulfil the requirements Of honor and humanity
with regard TO the Mosquitoes But when Eng
land asks US TO interpose with Nicaragua, aud
virtually require her to dismember herself in
behalf of the Mosquitoes, she asks entirely too
much. In our judgment she ought rather TO
advise her Mosquito Proteges to relinquish their
factitious independence and unite themselves,
heartily and thoroughly, with Nicaragua, using
her abundant influence to secure for them from
the Nicaraguans the regard of equals and the
troa ant Of bro tnfo
sitiOn from our Government be needed to se-
cure this end, we cannot doubt that il would
be cheerfully and heartily rendered.
That San Juan del Norte, miscalled Grey
town, has for some time been governed by a
committee of citizens, freely chosen, we were
of course aware; but that this Government
was conducted ''in the name of the ttular King
of Mosquito We were not prepared to see so
broadly admitted by an American Secretary of
State. Our very strong impression is that the
Mosquito claim to said port is impudently
grOundless-that it was trumped up by British
officers or subjects, to subserve British purpO-
ses-and that it ought to be abandoned I'M
qualifedly. We trust our Government will be
no party TO any arrangement TO compensate
Mosquito at Nicaragua's expense for surren-
dering this preposterous claim.
As TO San Juan, We should be quite content TO
see it become a free port or city, under the pro-
lection Of all civilized nations, and owing ale
glance TO none. But Nicaragua has claims TO
this port, whose validity il does not become our
Government 10 deny; and TO any arrangement
We may make with regard TO it, il is nds-
pensable that Nicaragua should freely assent
We hold Great Britain entirely right in az
frming that, in case the present Nicaragua
Canal Company abandon, or fail to act upon,
or should essentially modify, the project of an
Inter-0ceanic Ship Canal, and another Com.
pany shall be found ready and willing TO under
take the work on the scale originally cOntem-
plated, then the latter is Of right entitled 10
the countenance Of both Governments, and TO
the benefit of the stipulations of the Clayton
and Bulwer Treaty.
We heartily approve Mr. Everetts suggest
ion, that an eminent and able diplOmatist should
be accredited by our Government TO all the
Central American States, instead of sending
petty Charges 10 a part of them. We wish
this had been done long ago. Let it be effect
ed now, and let our Minister be instructed 70
favor, by all means, the reunion of Central
America, as the proper basis of resistance TO
Foreign intrigue and internal dissensiop in
that important portion of the Continent.