The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-28
An ultimatum Issued BY the
British Government.
RELATIVE TO THE HATCH CASE.
Payment of $4,000 TO the Fxiled
Consul Insisted Upon.
o'her Claims TO Be Submitted 10 n Conn
mission. No Member of Which May
BE Citizen OF the United states or
Any Other American state.

Washington City. March 27-The ulti-
m@1lm issued hy Great Britain 30 Near
aqua was given out here tonighz. 1t is
addressed 70 Senior Barrios. minister of
Nlcarasu VA. and contains among other
ehlngs, the following statement:
fer majesty 8 government has careful
~ considered the volumjnous documents
enclosed In your note Of November -
last, wnlcn you have communicated TO
me IN Justification of sae proceedings OF
me Ntearagaan government In regard 10
Minister Hatch, British pro-consul. and
certain other British subjects who were
arrested IN August last In the Mosquito
Teser rfsttaon. imprisoned and expelled from
Nicaragua, not only without any form of
trlaI, but without any communication to
them OF the charges against them, so as
10 AFFORD them an opportunity OF abSolv-
ing themselves Before proceeding 30 the
examination made of those documents. /
may observe that. although Minister
Hatch was not, strictly speaking. an Off
Ger IN her maJestys consular service, n
might have been expected that the Near
aguan authorities who carried on a cor
respondence with him and made use Of
ms services IL a consular capacity when
ever and so long as Il suited their con-
venience 10 do so would, as a matter OF
ordinary courtesy, have communicated
Win ner majestys government before re-
sorting 10 so extreme a measure the
arrest OF that gentleman"
The document then gives q historical
resume OF the event. principally as print
ed In the English and American newspa-
pers during the last six months. The doc
ument says: With regard to the conduct
of Mr.. Hatch. her majesty's government.
is satisfied with the report of her ma jes-
tvs naval officers that II was perfectly
correct during the time that he acted as
British pro-consul."
Continuing. the document says: 'I do
not know that there are any other points
In the documents which you have commu-
nicated TO me OF sufficient Importance that
| should specially notice them. / have
only 10 request that you will. without de-
lay. inform the Nicaraguan government
that her majesty's government cannot ad-
init that any ads 1uate or reliable evidence
has been produced to Justify the arbitrary
and violent action taken against the
queens subjects"
They hold the Nicaraguan government
responsible for these proceedings, and
they must require them TO pay the sum
or tl9,g0 on account OF their action In ar
resting, imprisoning and expeIling the
British subjects; further. TO cancel uncon-
ditionally the decree OF exile issued
against them. and to agree to the consti-
tuition OF a committee TO assess the losses
sustained by them in their property or
goods in the reserve owing TO the action
OF the Nicaraguan authorities. Such com
mission is 10 be composed OF a British
representative. "A \icaraguan representa-
tive and jurist. not citizen of any
American state 10 be selected by agree
ment between the Nicc raguan and the
government of her ma jesty. and failing
in such agreement. by the president of
the Swiss republic. The finding of the
commission 10 be by a majority and the
a-tIc to ha fira ha }, In.
three months of the conclusion OF their
labors.
besides the ~ascs of British subjects
arrested in the Mosquito reserve. there
are those of others who have suffered at
the hands of the Nicardguan authorities :
namely. Arthur +. Sykes. OF Sheffield
England. who had been working in the
Mosquito reserve as an engineer and was
serving In that capacity on board the
Buena Ventura. when on the night of July
50 he was forced a the point OF the bayo-
net by Nicaraguan soldiers 10 get up
steam and take party OF them down the
river 20 the Bluefelds hluG. and was. on
the arrival there. fortunately released by
the captain of the United States steamer
Marblehead; also. Mr.. Joseph \. Galea a
Jamaican. settled in Great Corn island
who. early in 1894. was beaten with the
fat of sword for refusing 10
perform military service and then made
10 serve. There Is further unWa rrahtable
seizure of the British schooner ANGELA
by the governor of Corn island au1 the
detention OF her owner and citizen.
These outrages her majesty's government
must also have satisfaction for. and they
require that the sum o. s50a be paid as
Indemnity.
IN previous letters. which ! have ad-
dressed 20 YOU I have explained that her
majes1ys government is not prepared TO
discuss any question with regard 10 the
trsaty Of Nanagua and the recent pro
ceedinss In the Mosquito reserve until
this matter Of arrest and Imprisonment
or British subjects has been disposed q
- soon as the demands which have
made in my present note he satisfied
shall ne prepared 70 receive and consider
IA a friendly spirit any representations
OF those qucsti ions which the Nicaraguan
government may desire % make "a her
naics;y'S gevNrnme1t. am. sir with
highest cons,deTa ttou, your humble AMI
oNt-i!ent servant. KIMBERLY.
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