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Doc. No. 75. 



My Secretary of State for Internal and Foreign Relations informs yoii 

 on this day, by a communication addressed to your Minister for Foreign 

 Affairs, of all the circumstances which have taken place between us and 

 the British agents , and of the critical situation in which those circum- 

 stances place this government, it being the well-known design of the 

 court of London to establish colonies on our coasts, and to render itself 

 the master of the inter-oceanic canal for which so many facilities are pre- 

 sented by the isthmus in this State; and I am thus relieved from the ne- 

 cessity of adding further details upon that subject. 1 have, therefore, to 

 recommend to you, in the most urgent manner, to give your attention to 

 this pressing affair; and I pray you, sir, to comm_unicate to me with 

 equal frankness the resolution which you may think proper to adopt with 

 regard to the matter which I submit to your enlightened judgment. 



Such is, my dear and good friend, all that 1 have now to say to you; 

 and most happy shall I be if my prayers are answered favorably by the 

 reception which I anticipate from your benevolence, as indicated by my 

 hopes and washes. Meanwhile, I can assure you that whatsoever may 

 be your determination, it will in no degree lessen the sincere attachment 

 which I feel towards you, nor the sentiments of high esteem and consid- 

 eration with which I have the honor to be your best and most sincere 

 friend, 



J. GUERRERO. 



His Excellency J.ames K. Polk, 



President of the republic of the United States of America. 



Note. — It does not appear from the records of the Department of State 

 that the above communication w^as answered during the administration 

 of Mr. Polk. 



Mr. Salinas to the Secretary of State. 



[Translation,] 



Government House, 



Grenada, March 17, 1848. 



As the accounts and rumors everywhere current with regard to the 

 agreement concluded on the 7th instant between this government and 

 Mr. Granville G. Loch, the commander of the naval forces of her Britannic 

 Majesty on the river of San Juan de Nicaragua, respecting the occupation 

 of the port of the same name, may in some way contribute to the contin- 

 uation of the acts of violence committed against this country by its unjust 

 aggressors, and affect the public opinion of other nations, the Director of 

 the State of Nicaragua considers himself required by duty not to remain 

 silent with regard to those circumstances, and to give to the whole world, 

 and especially to his Excellency the illustrious President of the United 

 States, a full knowledge of all the facts, in order that, being thus informed 

 of their details, he may make his own judgment exact and impartial, 

 conformably with the principles of equity and of ihe general interests of 

 nations. Such is the motive and the object with which the Director of 

 the State has ordered me to address to you the exposition contained in 

 the present letter. 



