Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-02-18

indignation of an honest, upright man who bushes
for his country he details the expediens and shifts
to which British officials have resorted to obtain the
control and actual dominion of Honduras, and the
Mosquito coast, in such passages as the following:
"Nor this the only national disgrace and absurd expo
sure which has resulted from the British proecorae on
Mosuto shore Several writer's have already noticed
the huating which the coronation of the
ent line of Wakna monnrchs have given occasion and all
the witnesses except perhaps some whose sense OF
and moral recude little at all superior to ina.
of the poor deluded Indians themselves concur
these ceremonies not only ridiculous in the u
disgusting exhibitions of human degradation ana GI
edly associated with them. Indeed it is not little sur
prising that Government ocals-civ military; ana &C.
claim to reassa ana me be- found Will
ing to lend themselves to mockerles so puerlle anu " ~
and ss1 n hs
the socaed religious FORMS and in the name and on beha
Of royalty to place in the least imposing nrs fi
On suc .asons British meno war have been employ,
convey the ROYAL and the naked ana
Honduras titled colonial bishop has been in rcquston
to consecrate and anon with holy oil the scmsavage the
tool of schemes of national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The various native lords generals admira and captains,
have been clad for the occasion IN gay regmen'as wnc
they shess their tawny skins and SO
the soft rament' that the pencil of Crukshanks
could scarcely do justice to their attitudes and grmaces
while wrthng under the confinement of braided coats MI
The coronation Of King Robert took place at Belize on
the esd of April 1925. None Of the above elements were
sn Vas Performed by the Chaplain
in the of his SUPERIOR whose absence was more nan
for by ss Ss
the part assigned them viz swearing allegiance to their
King by first placing them within the pale Ct the naona!
establishment Consequently the ADMINISTRATION OF bapsm
to such as are of ripper years superadded to the
NJ ton service and the poor savages having WIN
becoming docity to all they asked were deemed ca
nable of taking an oath and their ecclesiastical disabilities
were once for all removed. Mr. Henry Dunn informs u.s.
upon the testimony of eyewitness of this nIqultos I'M
Of fhovd
ing ~ of the ceremony and when asked to give Their
names, took the titles Of Lord Rodney: Lord Nelson. or
SINE other celebrated officer and seemed grevonsly dis
pointed when told they could only be baptized BY simple
Christian fl Names and he adds that after this solemn
mockerv had been concluded the whole assembly adjourned
to large schooroom eat the coronation dinner where
the usual heahs drunk and these poor creatures all
basphemous and wicked as ever disgraced Christian
country. -
He describes an interview with another of these
kings in the following passage:
last week his smack Nancy reports hat he had an in
ervew. before sailing with his Majesty the King of the
red SASH and had large gilt spurs buck'ed about his
ankles; but to that the remainder was as the
however for the difference of and climate His
Majesty who cannot be than twenty years DID, was
slightly intoxicated His suite consisted ted Of sneeysd
acted interpreter The King of the Mosquitoes re-
ceived Skipper Nudge seated empty whiskeycask
or wherever he chose The writer then goes describe
the further proceedings of the interview in the Of
which his n.y h n s1sn b gTsad 'aS Gik
monarch whose coronation at Jamaica figured in last
years English estimates December &C.
Such are the means, as detailed by one of her
own subjects, that Great Britain has used to get
control of the Mosquito coast
Referring to n charge made against the English
movements in Honduras, Mr.. Grove says:
n order Judge the truth asehood Of the charge
of rapacty let the reader briefly review the facts upon
which it is founded
With no other claim than what is afforded by the treaties
with SPAIN have possessed ourselves Of the actual
regnty of territories on the northern shore OF the Bay OF
miles, million eight hundred thousand
elusive of islands and keys.
We have taken and retaken the important Island of
Roaan no less than five times and are exercising the
right of sovereignty its fertile lands which extend at
the least 10 hundred and fifty square lilies, ninety
six thousand acres.
BY virtue of late treaty with of the contendng par
ties Yucatan, and the of assistance afforded by
the pacifcation of the peninsula during the Of
which is still raging there, have obtained extension
of limits the northern boundary of Central American
empire, extending from the RIO Hondo to the port and
of aamanca de Bacala thus including about three
thousand six hundred square miles, two million three
hundred and four thousand of additional territory
twentythree thousand hundred and fifty square miles,
fifteen million two hundred thousand which
nearly if not quite four times the extent of the Island of
Jamaica
To the occupation of these extensive tracts of country
be added the protection the Mosquito shore over
which Government exercises much control Is
its possessions though in somewhat less direct
ner, or rather, by more indirect course In addition to
four hundred miles of sel-coast from the Roman
the San Juan del Norte. have lately put forth claim
in the of the Waikna monarch about hundred
miles of seacoat to the southwark of the San JUAN
extending through the State of Costa Rca and part of the
province of Feragua. far Chrqui Lagoon; thus in
r Isn least " thousand square
thousand acres OF including the occupation
Thus the actual result up to the present tme excu-
sive of such smaller items Roatan and Tgre Islands,
have total Of sixty thousand six hundred square
miles, or thirtyeght million hundred and eighty
four thousand acres which exercise full CONTROL
beng nearly third of all Central America, and than
twothirds the of Great Britain.
Let tie reader decide whether not must ap-
to the natives in the light of rapacious nation To
them matters little whether encroachments and
occupation of their country be defended the plea of
right of conquest founded the successful defence of
st Georges Key in l7"s, whether unprinciped
stances by replying the of neighbor-
ing republics that our treaties were made with Spain and
not with them and to the claims OF SPan that they have
further dominion these territories since their late
colony bee .ne independent.
The natives but consider these territories as
part of their country which ought TO be free from
dominion of European monarchicl they
themselves. 1t must weigh little with them whether we
ground claim to the Island of R"atan upon its first p
ratica seizure, the fact that fifty years ago we
located upon it the remnant of nation which had we'll
The Central States, as we'll as the British Government
know to be- commercially the key to the navigation Of
their own shores while in the hands of Power 50 ag
gressive and much their superior In the magnanmous
protection extended the Mosquito Shore in the
residence of Mr.: Coates British Commissioner to the
Walkna King they can discover benevOlence phan
throPy they had been inclined to forget the orme,
attacks made upon the River San Juan del Norte they
could not be expected to view with placid indifference
our occupation Of its best port which commands the line
oceanic communication the very time that this grand
| project is most likely to be realized.
In the occupation of British Honduras and Roatan the
protectorite of the Mosquito Shore the annexation of
Ie Island the seizure of the ports and nets in the Gul
OF Fonseca the blockade of the Atlantic and Pacific
Of Salvador and Honduras the bearing Of British officials
and in the tone and tenor of diplomatic relations the
trail Americans perceive little besides o ct
du plus fort-tbe law and the logic Of the stronee