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Doc. Na. 75. 



Department op Secretary of Supreme Government of tthe^ 



Statk of Nicaragua^ Leon, December 6^ 1842. 



True copies: 



OROSCO. 



No. 3. 



Translation of a circular addressed by Don F. Cast Won, the envoy of the 

 States of Honduras and Nicaragua, at Brussels, to the foreign min- 

 isters. 



Brussels, September 2S, 1844, 

 As it has been stated in several newspapers published in London, Paris^ 

 and Brussels, that the naval forces of her Britannic Majesty have occu- 

 pied the port of Bluefields, situated in the territory of Nicaragua, and I 

 have seen this confirmed by a letter written from Carthagena;, in New 

 Grenada, on the I7th July last, f liave considered it my duty^ as the rep- 

 resentative of the governments of Honduras and Nicaragua, to address to 

 his Excellency Lord Aberdeen the following communication: 



It is stated in several newspapers published in Paris, on the authority 

 of others which have appeared in your capital, that her Britannic Majes- 

 ty's forces have occupied the port of Bluefields, on the Atlantic coast of 

 the territory of Nicaragua, in Central America, which has been known 

 under the name of the Mosquito coast ever since the discovery of that 

 part of the New World. 1 have been unable to admit the truth of this re- 

 port, being, as I am persuaded, that the spirit of moderation and justice 

 presides OA^er the acts of her Britannic Majesty's cabinet; and I confide 

 entirely in the sincerity of the unequivocal marks of friendship, and the 

 consideration which it has given to the Central American States, ever 

 since they declared themselves free and independent of the mother coun- 

 try, by sustaining with ardor the just cause of their emancipation. But 

 as the act to which these newspapers refer may possibly have been com- 

 mitted without her Majesty's knowledge, as-in the case of the occupation 

 of the island of Raatan in 1830, and subsequently in 1839^ with respect 

 to which representations were respectfully made to the throne of her Bri- 

 tannic Majesty itself, I have judged it proper to declare to your lordship, in 

 my character of representative of the States of Honduras and Nicaragua, 

 that the governments of those States, being most anxious to maintain the 

 relations of good understanding and amity so happily subsisting between 

 tliem and the government of her Britannic Majesty, have especially in- 

 structed me to communicate frankly to your cabinet the just title which 

 they have to the territory called the Mosquito territory, and the adjacent 

 islands on the Adantic, formerly comprised within the jurisdiction of the 

 kingdom of Guatemala, afterwards recognised under the name of the re- 

 public of Central America; in order that, upon this full knowiidge of the 

 case, your cabinet may admit, in the most formal and soler.n manner, 

 the right of those States to the said territory, and cause justice to be ob- 

 served towards them by your subaltern agents, and prevent them from 



