The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-02-07

take public part dissertation Of the called religious
FORMS and 10 the and behalf OF royalty 10 place 10
the least imposing light imaginable,
u'Tne Tow ambition and tbe pride Of kings
On such occasions British Of have been employed
convey the royal end the naked and
Honduras sIed colonial bishop has been in requstion
and snot with holy oil the semi savage the tool
Native ra aS%rs .nS s
Sssn Sia or s On sSs. IN s which They
scarcely do Justice 70 their attitudes and grmacss while
wrhinS under the Confinement Of braided coats, military
Coronation o. King Rossr. teok place at Belize on
the 2sd Of April 1925 None Of the above sismen were
ss
the room IN Of b, sass whose absence than
was deemed necessary TO qualify the waEna nobility for
part assigned them, Wis swearing allegiance to their
establishment Consequently the minstrstcn Of baptism
e such Is are Of ripper years was 70 h corona
III sy sss
Of taking an osh and their ccieissca disabilities
testimony az thu %sa
that they displayed total ignorance Of the meaning % OF
o'sr and seemed grsv9usy disappointed when told they
sSsd Gn Be- y simple and b
the whce assembly adjourned large schoolroom to
the coronation dinner where the usual hesths we're drunk
and these creatures all intoxicated with suitable
conclusion to farce basphemous and wicked dis
graced Christian country ~"
He describes interview with another of these kings
the following passage:
Skipper Nudge who arrived at this port from Hondu
ras last week. in his smack Nancy reports that he had
Interview before sailing with his Majesty the King Of the
red SASH and had very large gilt spurs bucked about his
ankles but regret say the remainder was as the
however for the difference of customs and climate His
Majesty who cannot be than twenty years old,
sngny intoxicated his suite consisted Of oneeyed drum
boy, and two gentlemen with es one whom acted
an interpreter The King Of the Mosquitoes received Skipper
the skipper take seat on the ground or wherever Ne
The writer then describe the further pro-
having excited the cssk rolled from under
him. and ne fell to the ground This the monarch whose
coronation Mt Jamaica figured in last wears Engsh)
mates. Noneonformist, December IS, lsls"
Such the means detailed by one of her own SUBJ
ec's that Geat Britain has used to get control Of the
Mosquito coast
Referring TO charge made against the English move
mens in Honduras, Mr. Grove says;
" In order Judge of the truth ssheSd Of the charge
OF raPacy let the reader bhy review the facts upon
g With other claim than what is afforded BY the treaties
with SPAIN we have possessed ourselves of the
Honduras extending over about twenty thousand ssSare
miles or twelve million eight hundred thousand acres excu
sive OF islands and keys.
We have taken and retaken the important Island of Roa
no Tess tnan hve times and are exercising the right
over It's fertile lands which extend at the least
10 one hundred and nifty square miles, ninety six thousand
| acres.
by virtue Of late treaty with one Of the sonenainr
tho OF the peninsula during the war of races
which is SIN raging there have obtained an extension o.
empire extending from the Rio Hondo to hs port and town
Of Salamanca de Bscaar TINS acaaing about three
and four thes.snd acres of additional territory.
Aitn9ether, making, on moderate calculation, sh,!
or fifteen million two hundred thousand acres-which il
nearly If not lutte d times the extent Of tho Island Of ia
To the occupation of these extensive tracts of country
must be added the protection of the Mosquito Shore over
though over
course IN sdd e. ar
ss % s p s forth claim hs San
e monarch % about S' one hundred miies
sre u es coast to the Of the Juan extend
tho State Of Costa Rca aud part
as ar as Chiriqqi Lagoon thus including a
gener ~ least thousand aare miles
million sig harrrca and eighty thousand acres
including the occupation Greytown
y, IF ,c IS The actual result up 70 the present i@e 1c
havsa sum total Of sixty thousand I'll hsndr5a uare miles,
or million sever Kindred and eighty four
sang acres over which we exercise full CONTROL being nearly
.na o. All central America and than thirds the
pear % he natives in the light of rapacoas nstisr ~
them ~ matters little whether oYr esrrpseamGnl and our
right q spnaae andsd the successful defense Of ST.
4eorgen Key In l79s whether We are unpncpled and
enough openly to take advantage
replying to the of the eghborng repub
,,cs ina. our treaties were made with Spain and with
/ 10 furth her
] independent. ' ~
natives cannot but consider these territories "A
o. tner country which ought be as free from the
dominion OF European monachsa as thew
themselves 1t mnst weigh little with them wbetbSr wa
our claim 10 the Island of Roatan upon it's first
or on the fact that fifty years ago we oca
upon y the remnant of nation which we had well nigh
~ ussa IN despoing them of their native isles. The
Catra States, well the British Government know it
10 be the key to the navigation of the Bay
Honduras aud must feel it convcnienty to their own
shores while in the hands of Power aggressive and
tended over the Mofduo Shore and IN residence or Mr.
Coates as British Commissioner to the Waikna King
discover no bcnevolence Or philanthropy Ii they had
Deen inclined to forget the former attacks made upon the
iver san Juan del Norte they could be expected
to view with placid Indifference occupation Of its best
port, which commands the line of oceanic
the very time that this grand project most likely be
allied. =. l7.0T [I7a
In the occupation Of British Honduras and Roatan the
Of the Mosquito Shore the of tho
Tgro Island the seizure of the ports and inets in Gulf
Oh Fonsec the blockade Of the Atlantic and Pacific
OF Salvador and Honduras in the bearing British officials
and In the tone and tenor of diplomatic relations
trail Americans perceive little besides
du plus fothe law and the logic of the stronger
and what wonder that writing under the grasp Of the iron
hand OF oppression they should in their torture IRA
pacious nationP 'Vandals of thea ger"
1t was thus that in defiance of all treaty obligations
Great Britain advanced steadily towards the of
Central America until the discovery of the gold mines in
California AT once there rush of people to-
wards that land the Ishmus and through Central
America instantly became manifest that this whole re-
gon was in danger of becoming Americanzed and that
our eagle, in his flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific
would there find restingplace Up to this time Great
Britain had the advantage but suddenly the scale
turned in our favor In passing from of
ritory to another, likely occupy the inerme-
diate ground. England at once changed her tactics