Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-08-18


II is strange the distorted views apparently taken
of things by rabid opponents of any administration
or, indeed, of any party, and the miserable and nsuf
fcient grounds upon which charges will be trumpet
up. The GFeytown affair is case in point. law
less set of scoundres, setting at defiance the govern
ment of Nicaragua, TO which the territory belonged
had squatted down at the port Of San Juan, and over
them The British government, assuming " protecto
rate,' fraudulent the face OF t-had set up
miserable, drunken. and naked negro and called him
King of the Mosquito Territory, with view OF
gradually consolidating their authority in the
person of their unclothed puppet, over the lshmus
and thus controlling the most available transit route
between the two oceans
This Greytown had no right TO be treated as por-
ton of a civilized nation, nor its chastsement
any more an act of war than would be the punish
ment of band of Malay pirates outlaws. The
inhabitants had acted time and again with insolence
and Injustice towards American travellers and citi-
zens--had set at defiance the gOvernment--treated
every remonstrance or demand for satisfaction with
contempt They had shown themselves amenable to
no law, and open TO no reason; and ii became neces
sary for the public good that their lawless settle
ment should he broken up.
All the noise made about the weakness of the par
ty punished, is only so much fummery. The public
law which Furnishes maleactors is not 10 be divert
ed from its course, simply because the condemned
criminal is not able, finally, 10 set justice at defiance
Will the British government take up the quarrel Of
Leseouaws will sustain the belligerent course
Of the g Jolly" Commander of the Brig of-War Ber-
muda The British government will do no such
thing neither will the United States allow the claim
for damages set up by the British Minister on behalf
of persons whom he styles British subjects. We
give below, some of the subsequent proceedings at
San Juan, or Greytown, with sundry jolly procla-
nations by the Commander of the Bermuda, after
the Cyane had left:
THE SAN JUAN AFFAIR.-Further particulars.--
The New York papers contain the following account
of the proceedings of British authorizes after the
departure of Commander Hollins, of the Cyane--
We quote from the Express
Con the 18th of July, the day after Captain Hol-
Inns took his departure from San Juan, Com jolly,
of the British brig Bermuda went to San Juan, and
nut up two proclamations, copies of which are given
below On the 10th he came to Punto Arenas and
left two proclamahons, but one of them was worded
different from the put up in San Juan; instead
of the words cowardly and wantOn,' he had cruel
He also stated that he would send after the cannon
that was taken from San Juan and placed here by
Captain Hons. of the Cyane. The same day he
went to San Juan, and with pencil altered the
proclamation so as to correspond with the one left
here, and signed his name in pencil having been
altered by him. correspondent OF the Times says
On the Goth inst he sent force of marines to take
the brass cannon, which he says belongs 10 Great
Britain, and left for the potectlon OF San Juan
he took it under protest Of the United States, COM
mercial agent He has proclaimed martial law, and
blockaded the port, and told the pilot, American
that he was risking his life by going out for any
vessel without his PERMISSION and was about to put
him in irons for having gone out to bring in the
American brig Reveille, which arrived here the
Goth instant.
This statement, it will be seen, is substantially a
fat contradiction of Capt Tinklepaughs assurance
that the report of blockade was utterly untrue.)
PROCLAMATION.--(Copy
In consequence of the of all civil authority
this city of Greytown, Caused by the late ourage) being
charged as my power extends with the protection of
lives and property hereby proclaim the city and territory of