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than an outrage upon the comity of Nations. It is not 

 pra6licable for Great Britain to treat upon the question 

 of Boundaries so long as this insult is indulged in by the 

 Republic. One has only to look at the Map of Essequibo, 

 prepared, in 1798, by Major VoN BOUCHENROEDER, to 

 realize that the whole of the West Coast of Essequibo 

 was, at that time, not only occupied, but also cultivated. 

 Every bit of that coast was then lotted out in plantations 

 of Coffee, Cotton and Sugar, or otherwise. Some of the 

 plantations had even been thrown out of cultivation. This 

 is shown as far as, and including, the Pomaroon, which is, 

 indeed, the oldest part of the Dutch Colony, dating its 

 foundation from 1580. VON BouCHENROEDER'Schartwas 

 prepared for the Committee of the Colonies and Posses- 

 sions of the Batavian Republic, at a time when Holland 

 was under French influence, and when both those Coun- 

 tries were at war with Great Britain, in the very year of 

 the Battle of the Nile. It was not prepared for the British 

 Government. The Venezuelans cannot produce any 

 chart of Spanish Guiana of that date, giving any like 

 proofs of Spanish occupation in the part of Guiana that 

 Venezuela is in possession of. 



However, Venezuelans allege that when, in 1845, Spain 

 recognized the Independence of their Republic, it was 

 held by the Venezuelans that their territory was the same 

 as that of the Captain Generalship of Venezuela had been 

 under the Spanish Crown. The extent of that territory, 

 they add, was described in an order of the King of Spain, 

 issued in 1768, in which His Majesty decreed that " the 

 *' province of Guiana was bounded on the South by the 

 " Amazon, on the East by the Atlantic Ocean" : " so that," 

 says Senor Urbaneja, writing to Sir SPENSER St, JOHN, 



