The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-14

81 his late PREDECESSORS visited Jamara aud there
was invested with the robes Of royalty oy BRUSH
The Mosquitoes are hsatens They have nensl ThsS
have army navy, treasury, no customs no AAss
GO revenues police, industry, no trade no insel
course diplomatic otherwise, with any other peepie
There are indeed at Blue6eld civil judicial diplomatic
military and naval authorities but all these are BRUSH
tey execute only British orders and derive all their powers
and salaries from the British government These aouot
less are the why Lord Palmerston IN speaking OF
the Mosquito king said, "e ID as much kng as on Vi
and why as Mr. Bancroft reports the British House OF
laughed when no being present Ia doas .hey
voted the appropriations TO support the charge daares at
the court Of that imagil AIRY monarch
If any substance remained in the fiction OF Mosquito
nation and protectorate IL finally dissolved by the
frank and manly statements of Lord John RUSSELL writ
ten on the 10th January 1853 with view TO us being
submitted TO the Congress OF the United States. lie
writes.
protection and defence Mosquito Indians the position
o all parties has changed First Spain instead Of exercs
ting the coast under her sway has entire
y lost her domain the continent from Cape Horn to
Florida Secondly the Mosquito Indians instead OF gov
ernng their tribe according TO their own customs TAR
nish and title TO Europeans aud dmer'eans VINO carry
cording to the usages civilized nations Thirdly, Great
Britain instead OF having interest in the defence OF the
Moauto Indians for the sake OF rescuing part OF the terri
tory Of Central America Spanish control and obtaining
outlet for her. has other interest in Mosquito than that
which derived from honorable regard for her old CON
nexion with the Indian nation at Mosquito
Under no circumstances could the fiction of Mosquito
king Kingdom protectorae be tolerated to deprive the
United States of continental rights guaranteed to them p
treaties with the Central American States but II would De
consentng to the practice of fraud against them and our
selves to tolerate such efforts after the treaties OF 1883
l786, and 1850.
Lord Clarendon claims that the late Mr.. Webster, when
Secretary of State sanctioned the British construction OF
the treaty of 1850 This sanction is understood to be
merely inferred from Mr. Webster having advised Mr. Mar
coeta the Nicaraguan minister to accept treaty proposed
to the States Of Nicaragua and Costa Rca by the British
government upon the basis of that construction Mr..
Webster seems only to have proposed tins from an
solemn may have been his approval OF the British con-
strucon it has been adopted by the United States
and they have constantly insisted ON their own as now
MI Webstsr's supposed admission against the United
States more than balanced by the couner-admission OF
Lord John Russell in the letter from which have quoted
largely already:
States deny altogether the Independence OF Mosquito and
the Mosquito liable any day to new incusons
against this danger Our policy to do all that honor and
humanity require in behafof the Mosquito nation but we
adhere steadily the treaty OF Washington OF the
10th Of April 1850 and not to assume any sovereignty,
either direct or Indirect, in Central America"
So much light has now been thrown upon the whole
field of debate that can dispose very briefly of the
remaining questions proceed to speak Of the Belize.
simultaneously with the ratification of the treaty OF 1850
expana passed between the negoators, which ex-
eep,ed from It's Operation me srs nne N d mon
from the State Of onduras and the small islands in the
ueighborhood Of that settlement which may be known as
its dependencies and it declared that "e title 10
that settlement and those islands left by the treaty
without denying, or affirming, or medding in any way
with the same"
far south OF the Sboon the border of the British set
Element Of the Belize while by the treaty OF 1885, the 81
boon is expressly defined its proper boundary and she
insists moreover exclusive sovereignty over that dis
trct while by that treaty her possession is merely sub
ordinate one without any attribute of dominion whatever
BY this extended and absolute occupation Great Britain
proposed passage across the shmus through the
State of Honduras and also has great power to obstruct
even the Nicaragua route The United States in view of
the exception of the Belize district from The treaty of 1850
do no. insist poy her abandoning the Belize but they
insist that she shall withdraw from the district she has
usurped lying between the Sbopn and the Sarstoon and
confne herself within The stipulated boundaries of the Be
z while they content to leave for further discussion
the examination of her pretensions to absolute sovereignty
within that district
Lord Clarendon sustains the British claim by drawing
in the fact that the United States in ls4l sent consul to
reside at Belize who received his exequatur from the
British government But Belize is situated north Of the
Sboon and within the proper limits of British Honduras
The act of sending conspl TO reside there is
acknowledgement of the awnlness Of the extension of the
settlement beyond those boundaries Secondly the APP
pontment of consul Is only acommercia not political,
transaction.
Lord Clarendon further sustans these usurpatons by
alleging that the of 1886 abrogated in 1914 by
between Great Britain and Spain at which time the
Belize settlement had been already extended 10 the Sars
toon. But Great Britain was duriar That well as
before it, occupying the Belize in subordnation TO the
Spanish title She did not affect allege change
In the extent of her possessions then. When
peace restored she made treaty of boundaries and
took political spulations whatever but the con-
trary entered into treaty which expressly revived all
formerly existing commercial treaties to which class the
treaty Of 1856 far the Belize district settlement
concerned, manestly belonged Great Britain con-
unued to act this ground until the question OF inter
oceanic passages the isthmus In 1917 the
British Parliament passed law entitled "Au act for the
efecua punishment OF murders and manslaughters
committed In places within his Maestys donations"
The preamble is In these words;
Whereas grevous murders and have been
committed at the settlement 10 the Bay OF Honduras Ia South
America the bay settlement being certain pur
but not within the territory and dominion Of bis Mae
ty, by persons residing within That settlement"
Parliament amended this stituie In 1919 by another
which resirmed that Belize within the territories
aud dominons OF Great Britain, have already shown
that In 1925 Great Britain in recognising the independence
Of Mexico stipulated for her settlement the Belize the
privileges granted by the treaty with Spain in 1886.
Such is the unanswerable argument for the American
position in regard to the Belize II remains to speak
Of the colony Of the Bay Islands.
In Central America, not in British Honduras in the
Caribbean sea- about thirtyfye miles from port Of
Txilo in the State of Honduras aud four hundred miles
distant from the Belize lies the Island Of Ruatan spacious
fertile beautiful and easily susceptible Of defence Near
to ii the relatively smaller but yet considerable islands
Of Bonaoca, Uula Barbaret, Helena and Moorat. The
islands of Ruaan and Bonacca said by British geog
rapher TO be- by OF their fine harbors good soils
fine air and abundant animals well their command
ing grounds proverbiay known in that part Of the world
garden OF the West Indies the key Spanish Amer
ica and new Gibraltar On the 18th Of July 1850
thirteen days after the conclusion of the treaty Of 1850
proclamation issued by the British