Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-02-06

) There is nothing ia the much talked OF DIS
patch o. Lord John Russell, on Central Amefi-
can affairs, to warran. the inference drawn from
il in our Washington dispatches, that 1t con-
cedes all that orr Government claims. ii our
Government claims no more than this dispatch
processes England's willingness to yield, then IL
is claiming much less than the country has been
led TO believe Throughout the dispatch Lord
John Russell refers to the Mosquito Kingdom as
an existing fact, aud the Mosquito Nation" as
| having peculiar claims on the sympathy and re-
pard of England He thls instructs Mr.. Cramp-
| tom
| Inconformity with the opinions stated in Lord
| Malmesburv's despatch of ,Iuly IL, to which |
have already referred, | have TO state that the
! committee of government of GreytOwn are in
fact the real power that exercises authority in
| that part OF Central America. To her Majesty 5
| Government it would be matter of indifference
whether that authority was exercised in the
| name OF the King of Mosquito or in the
| name OF Grcyt6wn itself. Bat ii is desirable
| thar which is apparent should be made to con-
| form as far as possible with what is real. What
is apparent is that the King OF Mosquito cxer-
cises sovereignty over Greytown. What is real,
| Is that he has no authority there whatever, but
| that the committee OF Europeans and Ameri-
| cans carry Oh the government OF that port.
What her Maesty's Government, therefore,
| should consider u good and final arrangement
| would be-First. that Grcytown should be a free
| aud independent port, connected with Mosquito
| by such rela tons OF friendship and alliance as
| may be agreed upon. Second, that indemnhca-
ton, or advantage equivalent 10 those laid down
in the project of convention of the 18th OF pril,
! hal ha tn Fn in raj tpr
its withdrawal from It's present position with re-
rnrl to Greytown. Third that Great Britain and
the United States without guaranteeing Grey
| town. should be ready to act in concert to dCs
.ftnI the independence of the free city or port
| of Grcvtown from whatever quarter it might he
attacked.
What is essential and Of immediate impor-
lance is that the authorizes OF Greytown should
be ready to assume either unqualified imdepcn-
drnce, with an engagement to defend Mosquito,
| or qualified Independence owing allegiance and
support to Mosquito. For this purpose, some
persons qualified TO treat should proceed at
once to Grcvtown. Whether naval officer OF
her Macs;y's service, a civil one, would be a
| faer person TO be entrusted with this mission, |
| must leave you to decide. 1t would be dcsirab. C,
if the Government of the United States should
concur in these views, that Il new convention,
in place of the unacceptcd project of agreement
Of April, 1852, should he proposed and conclu-
dcd, and thata person similarly qualified shotld
be sent by this Government at the same time
and for the same purpose.
have only further to say that indemnity to
Mosquito might possibly be not made in money,
but in greater security, for certain fixed terrific
~ within which the tree port OF Greytown, as
sisted by her Majesty ships OF war, mi llt man
age 10 defend the Mosquito naton The Cover
| nor General Of CJna,lo and authorities in other
OF hcr Maicsty's North American possessions,
have made from time 10 time, agreements some
what similar. The President Of the United
States has frequently made conventions with the
Indians to the like effect. The popularity Of this
case is that certain ncighborng States deny al
together the independence Of Mosquito, and the
| Mosquito nation are liable every day to new in
cur>.ons upon ;her territory. We can make no
| complete provision against this danger. Cur
policy is to do all thai honor and humanity re-
qIirc i'll behalf OF the Mosquito nation. But we
intend TO adhere strictly 10 the treaty Of WASH
nton Of the 10Th OF April. lS5p, and no. to as
sumo any sovereignty, either direct or indirec',
in Central America. J. RrssELL