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- - y . J i - r t tof. cakolixa nnruBLicAS: V - j. n. NHV7S on. . TERXI. , . far , tea a aUM, . I T hfjn m tmmVimt eloka at mm rat, la l3 ttaUn On whcrickD U chTJ talk tad. '? .AH Uan 1 li EJ".tw wcitWr-PkU 1 - - . . . - . , The Nicaragua UiTolr. .i 'TU Wiring arts eopi f lL wrtwpoo Lxc betweea the c Nicaragua and ti British eoJ4 r" S : . T iay Sirriary r 0 &ae Goatcmaia, Jane 12, 1849. S? IltTiOJ ra 1Q the Gwirr ' the JiiXmmi rf 2 tcurajna, of the a cot y of the contract Lately Ivtca tLU guvrxneeot and V 1- . . 1 4ic icTk, wmaa rail o uc nvrr ry.r -Tcrnmcnt thai the government of Ler 3Uarty, oat cf ecu (deration to those Unglabmen to whoa debt are da" in cvo- wbWk tetany other iz the EnrlUhJhoUer, of the d'.nWt .IvTri. cf the buta of .NWna, wfcieK, fn with the of the ehTr Su cf Cal America, being hThecated br the ri-t r..icilT. .r.k..!i.i. If ih rreditorf of Kiearagua, in consideration of their diScnltiea, have not exacted the pcmetoal accomplishment of this com promise, . i. ?- i i - - r i v iLould define far another obit than the ymentofiudebestherrnt3wLkhhavebeen r-rfIjigned fo, the liuqidation of 'the debt, wbS, UU-gto ih?toglhLdZ tr; I theref .re tkrj that the government of Nicaragua bear in mindr that the pav- r.mtcf tCia bou.WeU and the ri?ht owned by Reid Irving must be provided for U whatever feigo company the government njar Loo tr. m.V -t. .k fana a eanal along the San Juan river or to establish a liae.of cotnmunication thnugh ' - terrilorr of the S:t f.,f--ikni tK; f i u!a u'on w ha tc vei sales the S ute m a Ministry of Foreign Affairs, - Leon. Animst2. 18-19. - - " ' . Vr.'CommJ Genrralof Jf.'JJ. M., Fred- tie ChnttiMt I acquainted the supreme di- rrcVr tot ot this State with your communica- Lou of the 12th June last, to which , yoa t iT t. ti.ia nfwr;u Ml 1.1 If r ... v an- - ; FI have the honor Ac., ' Mn without even a decIaxat,on of war . ...,,,, on the part of the British government, far FIIKDKB1C CITATFIELD. frvm .nim id versions a gainst British . . iu? irvwn c-uu-acx, wxause joa Vlieve that it affects the tnteresia of British f nbjecta, holders of bonds against the Stale 1 r IL hypothecation . Nei'ther that contract, nor vj ounr njMe wim any perm or per- the rrpcattl unneevsjiary coinplalnta w'ncti txis, can torich diixctlj or idiivctly tlp in-! rou accumulate . by iiumaginary dangers, , "tvts to which yoa ivfer. Nicaragua can j invoked by the Nicaraguan press upon ' alienate, withMit any restriction whatever, j British subjects, that they have no other ob-V- it powacsaioj kpd territories; either to es- j jeet than to attack the liberty of the pres, - tUih an iat-rrior trafS?, or to crn luct the j whose tendency is more ostensible wheu it is gtrat entrrpriso of the canal. If tboMC alien- observed that in none of t!to public pap-Ts, aUrna oVt not furnish her with necrissaries 1 in which tbe conduct of the English bus PiScxent ta pay her debts, th result will j been censured, can there be found the slight 1 opoo her in its fall force." 'The supreme I est expression which can do them harm. reraVr desire that yoa notice that these the princi-l caerraiioos tenJ to con'rarent Jle f Borj-interyentiwof one government . u auaira el anottstr. ana taat tner niay mv ore Ute friendly relations sustained until M V. i. . . a r T T . . T l iuc nrfmutrn. n xi. i. i ; i ft o tTPieai rieasore. Tourobeiuj- r, aad obedient servant, SEBASTIAN SALINAS- . , . Goernment of the Klate JTimrnya, ' Leca, Goatexala, July 18, 18 19. S'r: It was my intention to attempt a ' "iw, by means of a friendly representation, - eroviiire your governmentof the impolicy a.j J injustice of leaning la your public pa- ,fs towards the1 attacks fomented again! . e isnusti gorernznent, exating ouura anu e IlnUib government, exatin Mj.wiU againu the tubjecta of her. Majesty ' ' , he Qjecn, who reside peacefully and im.f . Q.Mvely in the State of Nicaragna. in busi- less of a legitimate character ; hot the ruber- busi-1 : patorial decree of the 19 Ji Jane ut which . - received yesterday, bsuCcien)y eonc'uive ' V n I possitive io its exprrs-sjoas, fr tn loo 's r to dxibt of the hostile intentions of . t icxn raa towards G rea t Britain: nothing , Icll ;.r roe to do, tut to infunn LLa gov TfiOfBt of II. B. M., of this insulting and , tn merited rroceediog. I shall, nevertheless, - i ji allow this opportunity to pass, without " c!ring, as I now doexplkiur and formal- It to your government, that tu'e Queen of ' llreat Britain has dt-eided to defend the t rights cf tha ' Misquiu. King, and in cxise- f j .rx.cr, wHwicr tun may ve acne against t:m will louJubly draw down upon Nicara- i u pcicrc ccasusemcui. lieiore Idiog this note, I deem it proper to in- th rnvfrnsjent f Nicaragua that I f prove of tbe means taken by the Vice f KfnX Massing, frr taver of aome French M'? ho fl-i tj bin, demaadinj protec- - fJ- laaenfille sute of public affairs ia Nicaragua; acd i jrc tito to communi cate to joe, th iafonnativn vf the Di reet r rf tha Ste that the government of N:-r r-a will be hell rr non:hTe to that nf r whatever preju- dice Br. Sill ."T-J aaav acfTr in nn nr Tsroperty, dunng teoovulsions ia which tae govsmiscat cf Nicaragua has uxjostly tartised thexa cf rartkipating. ' ' .' . ' -I lave the noncr, ie!.'"' ' !" - - - FXUJPERIC CUAFW4). r : V0LUME I. Iconi August 7, 1849. To the CiiJ Gcnrmlofll. D JT.t Frtd rt'c Ckrtt'IJ: .This b not the first fipoe that the turreme coremmVnt of the wwcrcign State of Ncarairu. ami L tbe rwt of Cen tral America, rro itM from yon commani caliciis wanting in that moJcratioo which slxmlJ lwjr be the inTrible stanJarJ of th cnnJoct cf CTcry puMic fuucliouarj, and i .t i i ?.i - . . -j Iu it t.m iart'; that tin pvernmont buficai itelf with atUrViog the British g vrrnni',nt io iti mnif.je8 and public pa rT. nd excite lutirrd apmst the abj'Hrt! STZZ !Ir iTi" tM IhJ.St' "V,nm " -t rV XT fT "fi" will. Great B !n V f .J1 lt, hc object is the ro-es'ablishinent of PUoIk: onier. ai lue aeieucc vi iub u;rrii.- riJ integrity of the State. Nicaragua has never undertaken aggres sions of anv kind aijainst the English gov- ?.ro.CDt' 1 . "T..1?6,.!? wb,c?' PWJ "Xnsnnder ,lODa, Pnncp e belong to all nations under I f"l ,r?-. 11 nfver d?e 'hcr independence from the of tho who, under the pretext of a m1nP,i,J not reoginl by the hSh,.1 worlJ atu,Ulw to ?atch fm.m 11 "-t important property and potions Atlantic seaboard, with the well known intention of establishing an enormous prepon lerance over the American continent. In the niid.xt of tli, and whn thee at tempt have become niot flagrant, disturb- in' the perce of the State, iirofanine its fubjt-cts having Wen exciteil by Nicaragua, they have U-en I real ed justly, as though the (country had not received any hostility from i v ? i i.i . . i r fe"""' r - - : us s i met is uave oeen lespecreu more man those of the iuhabitantaof Nicamgua. And 1 if th'a has been the conduct of this State at , the moment when its territorial rights have . been profaned and its dignity insulted by unimo arms, wnai jusi moive can you give I f.r affecting such fears for the fate of your 1 ui pat riot s-in this country while they retrain i quietaif I peaceful ? It is, therefore, proved by Vou drx-tire emphatically and formally "that the Queen of Great Britain has deci- detl to sustain the rights of the Moaquito i Kin, and, in consennence, whatever i Kin?, and. in eonentienee. whatever act may be time against him will infalliblv 1 1 . t - araw aown on AViearaeua ma most tetrrc Aajfi.irMfnf. But the government of this Sute d es n-t recognise in the co.isul the UcuUy jb nuriuB political (latslfutioaa, much. less to announce so absolute a decision on the pari of its government in favor ofasup pMixl claim of a aavajf , which by the laws of npirersal justice does not exit, nor can it bt called other than a direct usurpation, and bvfirc the same nation solemnly protests that it does not recognise in the tribe of M Tsqnitoes'the right to erect itself into a sovereign nation, and to receive, in conse quence, the protection of any nation. .As you, bv yt.ur declaration, openly on- fin, the refusal of justice tn the Kng!-h g - - ven mcot to the naciuccLiras inado by N'ica- ramia. even in the court, du ou wish tl:.f thy giverni-i?nt should n. t pr pare to com ply with the most sacred right, which tbe principles r.-cogiLxl by r 11 the powers of the glo!? impose upon it that of th- de fence of the territories which' the law has confided to it 7 I you prtend to prrvnt the us? of its constitutional powers, styling "oSeasive its " defensive decree of the 19th June, or threaten it with the chastise ment of her British Majesty T " international nghi does not recognise such formulas. "What government has the light to chastise another government for the cxercLe of its sovereignty, without violating toe principles oi non-intervention : lut nothing of this is stranre. when it is noticed that you consider so unbounded the power of Borland ; that teing tbe agent of its rovern ment for commercial relations, you presume to arrogate even the representation of the subjects of other nations, who have recog nised agents, as you did in your bs fore-cited letter, constituting yorself representative of the x reneo, to whom you refer, when you re flect they Lave their cotijul general, recog nised and confirmed by tbe supreme govern mvnl, who raide no complaint to the minis try, but, on the contrary, feels well satisfied with the citiliicd maon?r in which his com patriots have lnvn treated, as his communi cation of the 20th proves. . ,It Ls, Mr. Consul, very sad, thai reprn tog as you d a nation of the first class, wboe isfUtuticus have proclaimed the liberty of r IGlhJIar U, J"-' , J r 6L B " r,r. f ' menu ; hut thit which you directoO to me, ASK NOTIIINQ THAT IS NOT RIOllT LINC0LNT0NN.: c4 the press, the rights of man, and the- inde pendence of nations, you pretend to popprew that tame, liberty with suppositions falsified by the actions" of the Xicamguan public, in for of English unbjects, and meddling in the sovereignty of their country, which shall be sustained at all hazard, without heeding any other limits than thope by which nature and the laws circumscribe it, as a province of the old government of Guntemila, erected in Spain by its political institutions. The Consul w"ll pleac'accept my conside ration as his -attentive servant. S. SALIXAS. Grf.at Britain and Nicaragua Tbe f-nlowinz clause appears in a lecr fnm Lord Palmcrston to Senor Castelion, dated Februaay 9, 1849: v " And I have to fay in reply, tliit ' the government of her 31 ges?r is desirous to cultivate the- tnnst friendly relations ' with the Stao of Nicaragua' but that the. government of her Majesty can do nothing ' that could ls interpTrtftl as admitting a doubt dial Griytown belongs exclusiccly to the Jloiquilo territory." The Cvrrro proceeds to comment on this declaration, saying that the English govern ment is determined to possess this territory, and at the same time takes advantage of the weakness and domestic dissensions of the State of Nicaragua; while the English jour nals publish the most exaggerated accounts of their troubles, and malignantly represent that the State is not an organized society, but a permanent anarchy. It complains al so that their representative in London should be treated with contempt, while the British government pays marked attention 'to com missioners from fur inferior States. From the New York Express. The treaet with iiO vraqua. We stated yesterday the fact that the United Sta tes charge" d'affairs at Nicaragua had suc ceeded in negotiating a treaty with that government, defining the various commercial and other privileges granted to the "'Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Company," all citi zens of tbe United States. The treaty is a very important one, not only as regards the magnitude of the work in question, but as to tbe effect it is likely to produce in n- gland, whose peculiar claims to tbe Mosqui to terntorry, through part of which the ship canual is to pass; the readers of the Express have been made familiar with. We there fore make the following abstract of the doc ument, embodying-the substance of the whole. The terms of the treaty are highly fator.4t to the prosecution of the magnifi cent enterprise the American company have undertaken. Article 1st grants to the aforesaid compa ny the exclusive right to construct, at its own expense, a ship canal by a siugle route, across the territory of Nicaragua from the port of St. John's, or any other more feasible point on the Atlantic, by means of the St. John's river, to the port of Relijo, or any other port on the Pacific the engineers may decide upon. Article 2d provides that the dimensions of tbe canal shall be such as to admit the free passage of vessels of all sizes from ocean to ocean. In ease the engineers of the com pany shall decide upon two or more points on the Pacific as equally practicable, the one agreed. upon. shall be,.. the. most consistent witn the mutual interests Iwtu of tbe ofate and the company. Article ad binds the company to construct custom bouse buildings at the extremities of the cannal, on the Atlantic and Pacific, for tbe use of the State and the company itself. Article 4th promises the the privileges granted by the treaty shall be enjoyed for a period of eighty-five years, counting from the day on which the canal shall be completed. Article itux binds tbe company to pay tho Stats of Nicaragua $10,000 as soon as the .reaty shall be ratified; $-10,000 at the ex piration of one year from the date of the contract, and 10,000 each year thereafter uutil tbe completion of tho eanal. Tbse payments to bo made in Nicaragua ag the oLaie may elect. The company also is to make a donation of $200,00U of the caua stock to the State. Article Gth stipulates that the State of Ni caragua shall receive, fonts proportion o: the income of the interprise, for the first twenty years, 20 per cent, annually out of tbe net profits, after deducting therefrom the interest of tbe capital employed in its con struotion, at the rate of 7 per cent, per an num : and 25 per cent each year thereafter out of the said net profits, after deducitng the said 7 per cent., until the expiration of tbe full period of the term granted. The State, also, is to receive 10 per cent, of the net profits, without any deduction of interest, of any route which the company may establish between the two oceans," whether it may be by railroad or carriage road, or by any other means of communication, during the twelve years granted for tbe construction of the ca nal. . - ... Article 7th binds the company to make an ann'ul report and account to the Nicara guan government of the receipts and expen ditures on the work, to be properly certified. And the "government reserves the right to inspect at any time, the books of the compa ny, to satisfy itself the correctness of tha in come and expenditures.. Article 8th stipulates that the government - STJBMIX TO NOT 111X0 THAT IS WRONG. aclcson. OCTOBER 2G, 1491 shall have the privilege of taking canal stock to the amount of $500,000, within & year from- the ratification of this contract ; said stock to be attributed wherever government may desire. . ;: 7 Article 9th, however, promise that a ma jority of these stockholders shall always be citizens of the United States. - " Brticle 10th binds the company to com mence surveys of the work within a year of the date of the ratification of the contract. In case of earthquakes, epidemic,' wars, etc., the time necessarily so lost will not be included as part of tho given tithe. Article 1 1th provides that, none of these occuring, if the canal be not completed in twelve years, whatever may have been done by 'the company shall be forfeited to , the Staf;j, without indemnity, y Article ,12th grants to the company the ribtjlo use, fr of charge, sad take from the public forests, all the. wood, lima, eet., Peees3.iry for the construction of the can.l. Public lands, tor the erection of houses and wharves, are also awarded. . . . Article 13th provides that these materials, if taken from private property, must be paid for al any price tho company and the owners may tgree on. Article 1 1th stipulates that all articles the company require for the surveys and ex plorations shall be admitted, into tho State free cf duties; but the company cannot in troduce within the territory of the . State any goods," merchandise, or any -other arti cles of commerce, for sale or exchange, with out paying the duties established by law. They are aliio prohibited from importing any articles which may be monopolized or prohibited by the State for any purpose, ex cept f.r the use of the works of the canal. Article 15th engages the government of Nicaragua to aid the work every way in its power. Foreigners may work on the canal. $. Article 16 provides that the company shall secure as laborers any convicts capable of labor, upon terics to be agreed upon, with the State. Article 17th stipulates that the canal shall be open to the 'commerce of all'natioos, sub ject to fixed -and uniform rates of tolls that may be established by tbe company, f . Article 18th provides that all tariffs of toll established by tbe company shall have the force of law from the moment in which it chall be communicated to the government of Nicaragua, which shall be obliged to . sea net ion the same within eight days after its reception.- Whenever these tarriffs are altered, the company are bound to give six months' previous notice of such determina tiou in the State "paper of Nicaiagua, and in the principal sea-port towns of the United States, Articles 19th.a20th, 21st, and 22d stipu late that Nicaragua shall have a more favor able tariff than other countries ; government grants free ingress and egress to ail vesw;ls, free of any duties or charges of any kind ; no duties to be levided on any goods passing through the canal on board any vessel. Articles 22d, 3d, and 24th, oblige the company to furnish annually a list of what vessels it employs. Passports to all parts in Nicamgua, to- these vessels, are to.be granted by government. Natives of Nicar agua are to have a free navigations of the canal with all vessels, except steamers in cases of government necessities, the company promises to transport all oflieers of - the ! &te- from,. u d of tbe ' route' to the otber, tree of change. " , Articles 25th, 26th, and 27th, provide that the correspoedence of the State shall be conveyed free on tbe canal: m return for which, government will carry all the corres pondence the company may have, Within its jurisdiction, free of postage, j Ti e company bindi itself to construct bridge? upon taat part cf the canal that may be made between the lakes and. tho Pacific, upon snch principal highways as may be agreed upon between the State and the com pany. Provision is also made for the col lection of tolls, w hieh are to be equally di vided between the parties respectfully. Eiht sections of lands are grauted to the company along the banks of the river St. John, each sectiou to be six English miles I . I f - ,.i r-rrn n Sti S? f-" Wr1 A 1 I- tate the colonization of lands contiguous to the canal. The State reserves the right to pr,w mJiirrv rrifLttona on,i UiUiL to erect military fortifications and buildings thereon. Moreover, these lands cannot be alien ted to any government whatever. Articles 28th, 29th, and 30th stipulate that all persons settling on the lands granted to the company shall be subjected to the laws .Nicaragua. These are the most prominent and important features of the contract. The remaining arti ticles provide that the State binds itself to protect and defend the company in the full enjoyment of the rightsand privileges grant ed in this contract ; and also binds itself not to contract with, or cede to, any government, individual, or companies whatsoever, the right of constructing a ship canal, railroad, or any other communication, aceross its ter ritory between the two oceans. ' It is ex- ressly stipulated on lue part of the State of riicaragaa, that tbe vessels, products, manu factures, and citizens of all nations, shall be permitted to ptss upon tho proposed canal, through the territory of tho State, subject id no other or higher duties, charges or tax e54 than shall be "imposed upon those of the United States, provided always, such nations - . 1V w .. e. NUjMBER 46. shall first enter into such treaty, ; stipula tions, and guarranties respct.ing " said canal, as may hereafter be entered into between ibe State of Nicarague and the United States. - V V From the B stou Post. GREAT BRITAIN AND TflE MOS- r QUITIAN TERRITORY. Great Britain has put in a claim of no small moment, both as to the polities and to the commerce of this country, and one which the people will insist on being resisted. This relates to the Mosquitian. kingdom, so called ; the claim set up by Great Britain to. the ex clusive navigation of the river San Juan, which it alleges is derived from a personage known ai " the Mosquitan king. This bids fair to be something mare than a ucation of etiquette: ' " ' """"V- The Mosquito shore Ift'siolii the eoast ,of called such from the vast number of mo squi- toes that lBfest it. ' This shore is inhabited Honduras ana in tue. otate oi nicaragua,- or roamed over by a race of wild Indians, naked savages in the lowest state of civiliza - tion, consisting of but a few hundred in num ber. . Within a few years they haye set up the ridiculous claim, amounting to nq small part of tbe Mate ot Uosta Rica, .Nicaragua, including the corn islands. These claims the regular government have ridiculed. Lately they have preferred them through' what is called " their King. The British, . through 1 r their agents offered to protect this Mosquito king." They began their work of " media tion in lo41 j and from that time to this they have been hard at it in making him legitimate. They toted a half-naked sa- vage to their colony at Belize, went through the ceremony of crowning, and he came out a veritable king. A king must have a king dom ; and one has been unceremoniously .carved out for him along the Mosquito shore. It has been stretched so as to take in the river SanT Juan j and. this puppet of a . king is made to claim this river. If anybody has" a geography that describes the, boundaries of this Mosquito kingdom, or any history that gives the pedigree of this Mosquito king, we should like to see either. If these claims be all enforced'' by his British protector, his breech less savage majesty will lord it over .some 34,000 square miles. ' But the faet is, this king and kingdom have been hashed up by Great Britain. to serve a very important purpose. The river San Juan, commencing on the southern part of the f Mosquito shore, forms the outlet of the great Nicaragua lake, and is navigable during the rains to the whole extent, at all times for crafts of three or four feet of wa ter, and for vessels drawing ten or twelve feet of water some thirty-five leagues from the sea. The lake is navigable for ships of any aaminisirauou m Bieauuj reaiauog iur the heaviest burden, while there is only a ther British encroachment on thfs Nbftlf space of about sixteen miles from it to the i American continent. Great Britain can gulf of Pepayago, in the Paoific. It is by spread in India, or in the South seas, or in this route that a project for uniting the At- Africa, without let or hindrance so far as. anr Ta r-.M a Mnj iwa this country is -concernedj But its the been mooted. It is said to be the most - . k . o feasible route, and to present fewer difficul ties than that of any route in Central America, ,or than the isthmus of Panama. This will account for . the strong affection manifested by Great Britain ,for his Mos quitiau Majesty. The exclusive possession of this great commercial pat h,way would" tie no small acquisition . - - XT. , , V iI.a Wt-u.a rt io ivii ii w Li.li if i. x,ui - v allowed the absurd pretensions of the Mos- ouito savasres. or their king, or even the ex- istence of their kingdom, has lately granted to n enterprising coniiany the privilege of opening a communication between the At lantic and Tacmc by the San Juan route. I We will not stop here to discuss the im merii advantages such a work, well doue, would yield, not only to our own trade, but to the commerce 'of the world.- This com pany do not intend to build a canal for the ships of one nation only, but to make a highway for all nations tor all mariners and merchants who will pay for using it. Under these circumstances, it would be na- i tural to suppose that all civilized nations would give such an enterprise a hearty God speed. Not so however, is it with Great Britian. It induced its Mosquito pupppet of a king to make a grant to it' of the ex- l theJn Juan, and, un- : der the cover of such a title," it refuses to allow the American company to go on with ; if. flfM r, gJ v; i its enterprise. The : State :jf Nicaragua has remonstrated against this absurdity, not only with Great Britain, but it sent, in November, 1848, an agent for this purpose to this coun try. It alleges that it never recognised the Mosquito king, or paid any attention to his acts or his requisitions. .- This British- remonstrance was first pre ferred officially in this country by 3IaV Barclay, the British consul at New York. In a communication (July 30' 1849) made i by order of the British government, Mr. Barclay first defines the " Mosquito king dom' and then its rights. .This is proba bly the first definition . there is on record." lie says he is instructed to inform the Ni caragua company that " the, boundary line of the Mosquito kingdom touches the St.' John's river at the Machaca rapid, about thirty miles below the lake Nicaragua, and that from thence to the mouth of the St. J ohn's the navigation of that river belongs to 3Iosquito.'' ? vi :;. - Mr. Barclay further says J - : ' f 5'I have likewise to inform tha company j that tha port of. St, John's, now called Grey town, al which? they have agroe! with thia Nicaragua government" ffi build a store, also . belongs to Mosipoito ; that her JVIajesty government is bound to Protect the King of ; Mosquito in the exercise of the territorial rights which he poasesses'over Grey" Town, and over tie lower part; of 5 the St. John'i . river, taid tha has entered into 'an agreement in wgard J to places where it has no competence. , John Bull seldom does things by halves, r " and there is no half-way work here." Tha announcement of what belongs to the r King of Mosquito!, is made with a coolness equall- ed only by its audacity. ' . IBs aable 31ajesty - never' loomed np larger, while the govern ment of Nicaragua is set aside as a very littla thing. . , . . . Now here ia a question for the' Taylorv cabinet worthy of the graveet action. It is not a question of petty etiquette, but; of a grand monopoly ; not a question of tobacco d image or ship detehtign, but of a great na-. tional pathway : not. a mere.1 temporary or ' ; loeal affairbut one of lasting import, and ' involving the honor of the American name. , President Monroe," with the 'roice. of the na- . . tion with h!m, declared .''that Jthisf continent was closed to further European colonization.- ' Here isofbnly colonization; but coloniik-. ' tion iu itgj wfrst forin: Nothing like Jtne pretension i set up by j3reai Britjan haa, ever . existed in v thia; country; s although ; thin gj akm to it may have been done in India, or other spots where the British lion i hai pvt Really this claim looks more ike - ! f;irce than a reality. . IbeMosqtutians are ' just many wild savagef, permitted by regular governments Jto live on ''an almost uninhabitable coast, because nobody ' cl would live there. . sThese gentry have their rival chiefs and kings, L who at n 'various I . " . . V- '. ; ",ttes have set up ndiculoua i claims to bair ! the lands of these regular States. Great j Britain, informed of this byV their subjects Belize,-where there a vBntislr colony, t BiePs ra an DewujeB wuu "6 sends ships of .war to his coast, forms treaties with him, and gets grants out of him. Ihen, when the regular government, Nicaragua, j has made an agreement, which, " if carried out, will be of immense advantage , to" the whole civilized world, and accomplish a pro ject which for half a century it-has in i - vaia tried to accomplish, Men Great Britain steps in -to clog it with a cohtenitible'" title of . monopoly from a $an$ cvhtte king. Was ever anything more absurd J cucu sort of business may do in India, , or ; in jvustralia, ' but it ought not to be tolerated for a mo ment in North America. Such' diplomacy rs this the United States cannot submit to, I Under these circumstances, "what have the j administration done ? We are now ni . the I aar aooui it. i weex ago its presses (were lauding it for its prompt remonstrance a Jl 1 i 'a A 1 , -i gainst Britain; but now the official report ia that no correspondence v has , taken place on this subject. If so, it is to pe re gretted, t We trust that "such will : not con tinue Jto be the case long, should Great Bri tain con tinue her pretension's.- In the latter case she sh ould be told decidedly th at It can not be submitted to, and that the sooner she backs straight out of them the better; The country will sustain this administration or :r i. j : l. manifest destiny 6f the North American continent to enjoy the blessings of American institutions ; and this generation would be false to itself and false to prosterity if 'jit al lowed the monarchies of the Old World . to advance another step on its shores. ' FURTHER ACCOUNTS FROM NICAR AGUE: - .'""; ... a a- t. i :., 1 1 t ; j i. utouti una UCCU UV' 1VMUCUI . . . . . . . (of -Nicaraorua) stating that inasmuch as Da- vid L. White had presented to the supreme government ample powers on behalf of va rious persons in the United States, to con traet f. r th opening of a grand SHIP nAVNL, ' commissioners wre appointed withfull jpow er co conclude an arrangement '- with Mr. White, to shorten maritime communication acro?s the Isthmus on the basis of the "pre-, vious agreement with Dr. Brown. A" r Thp New York Tribune has' the following 4 letter, dated f ' !: '' Leon db Ntcaraoua, Sept 14, 1849. ' A large number of contracts have hereto' ; fore been made for the great inter-oceanic canal, among which is one -with Aaron F. ; Palmer of New York, another 4ith the late King of Holland, and "another, still -later, with Louis Napoleoh, now President -of the -French republic. But none seemed to have" : nor was anything done 4ndcr faera ? . . If-rt wM wa . . A contract has now been made, tinder a secure! any considerable amount of public'1 fortanate conjunctioaofcireumstances, which is' likely to be carried into executions At any rate," we may infer so from the names j of the men composing the company at the head of which stands Cornelius W. Vander-f bilfc of New York. The terms are far more. favarable, both to Nicaragua and the compa-'. ny. than those of any previous contract. 9 It is obtained for ninety seven years, with : . a further extent for 20 years, and secures to the campany the right to corlstit ship jg- r , canal or railroad, or to improvd;the present means of conveyancer Tone or all.) as teY.. ' , may think" proper- 'I- have: no doubt .the". - r company will pre ceed'at once to impwve the ' ; ' , present means of transit in which case this ; ' - ' will prove a formidable rival to the Panama;-: rote. : It is understood that" a most, important' ' - treaty has just been included between thev government, embracinga30rns provisions fcon- corning' tho proposed canal. V Jl Is probably . more favorable to our interests ' than any . v which has "jet been Eu3gbtiited; with Wy f the'AracriStxtl, tyy-, ;
The Carolina Republican (Lincolnton, N.C.)
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Oct. 26, 1849, edition 1
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