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plished under its immediate direction, will entitle it to the gratitude of 

 every Central American, and obtain for it a credit among foreign nations, 

 which at present it certainly does not possess. 1 desire, in short, to see 

 this government go to work with so much earnestness and energy in the 

 matter, that when that of New Grenada wakes up from the lethargic slum- 

 bers in which it is reposing at present, it shall be by the noise occasioned 

 by the crowbars and pickaxes with which our laborers are making their 

 excavations. Such are my wishes; and I have no doubt but that they 

 will be well received by the government, and concurred in by all my fellow- 

 ciiizens. 



I believe I have now accomplished all that I had proposed to myself in 

 preparing this memorial; if not with all the perspicuity which the import- 

 ance of the subject demands, at least as well as my limited means of in- 

 formation would permit me. It has cost me no little labor to collect the 

 data and facts to which reference has been made, but I am amply com- 

 pensated by the pleasing reflection that I have been employed, however 

 gratuitously, for the good of my country. 1 am also consoled by the 

 hope, that many of my fellow-citizens — even those who differ from me in 

 political sentiments — when they peruse this memorial, will do me the jus- 

 tice to believe that neither the effects of long absence, nor the influence 

 of otiier causes equally painful and disagreeable, the remembrance of 

 which can only cease to afflict when it is blotted out of my memory, have 

 been able to impair my affectionate devotion to the land of my birth, nor 

 lessen the fervor of my supplications for her prosperity. 



Brooklyn, September 24, 1836. 



No. 7. 



[Translation.] 



Government House, Comayagua, 



October 13, 1847. 



I have laid before the President of this State your esteemed note of the 

 10th of September last; and in consequence of it, he has been pleased to 

 desire me to answer you as follows: 



It has been repeatedly demonstrated irrefragably that the pretended 

 King of the Mosquitos, recognised as such by the British government alone, 

 wants the smallest shadow of dominion over any part of the territory of 

 Honduras; and it cannot and ought not to be considered a fact, that on 

 the north coast the uncivilized tribe wanders errant, promptly styled the 

 Mosquito nation. The question has already been explained by the press 

 in the various writings published, and no new proof is necessary to be 

 alleged to show on which side justice rests. Therefore, and because 

 now in a hostile manner an intimation is made that a property which has 

 belonged, and does belong, to Honduras, will be taken, no reasons will 

 be added, since it is easily seen that force, and not conviction, will 

 terminate the dispute spontaneously raised. 



You, in the name of your sovereign, make a formal declaration, with- 

 out previously announcing to my government that you are officially com- 

 petent to do SO; with notable injury to the dignity pertaining to the su- 



