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Even supposing this to have been done, the protection, as I have said, 

 could not exceed the hmits of justice; and thus, under the conviction 

 that the means of making complaint in the case is that not only usual but 

 also proper among nations, the superintendent should have adopted it. 



Still less are foreign functionaries allowed to enter into an examination 

 ©f the personal qualities of the persons employed in other countries, as 

 this belongs exclusively to the governments of those countries whose 

 laws prescribe their conduct, and the punishments to which they are to 

 be subjected. 



This sacred conservative principle of harmony has been set aside by 

 Colonel Alexander Macdonald, her Britannic Majesty's superintendent 

 at Belize. 



The supreme government of the State of Nicaragua, under these cir- 

 cumstances, requires of you, sir, the impartial examination and equitable 

 decision of this interesting qutistion, so important to the cause of recipro- 

 city between the two nations. 



I have the honor to be^ sir, your most obedient servant, 



SIMON OROSCO. 



Prom the Secretary General of the government of Nicaragua. 



Government House, 



Leon, November 19^ 1842. 



Sir: On the morning of the 16th instant I received your esteemed 

 communication, dated on the preceding day, in answer to one of the 10th 

 from this department, remarking on the refusal of your government to 

 render itself responsible for the separation and indemnification claimed by 

 my government in consequence of the conduct of Alexander Macdonald^ 

 the superintendent of Belize, towards Colonel Manuel Quijano, the ad- 

 ministrator of the port of San Juan del Norte, in this State; and I have to 

 notice your error in supposing that you have been asked for information 

 as to the alliance between Great Britain and the so-called Mosquito State^ 

 and as to the grounds upon which her Britannic Majesty's government 

 considers that any point in the port of San Juan del Norte is Mosquito 

 territory and not Nicaraguan, and if this supreme government were not 

 certain that there is no such alliance, and that the port belongs to it en- 

 tirely, and in all its ports in full dominion and possession. 



You insist upon the assertion that her Britannic Majesty is the ally of 

 the Mosquito King, and you now found your assertion upon the statement 

 that the earliest permanent commerce between the English and the Mos- 

 quito Indians appears to have been before the year 1670, when a British 

 establishment already existed on the Mosquito coast as a dependency of 

 Jamaica, and an intimate commerce and alliance was established between 

 that power and the neighboring Indians. 



The supreme goverrmient of the State of Nicaragua will, for a moment, 

 admit this hypothesis, and will analyze it in all its circumstances, its 

 nature, and its results, and it will then be seen how absurd it is to con- 

 sider it as the positive origin of a strict alliance between her Britannic 

 Majesty and the pretended Mosquito King. 



if those English going from Jamaica; in place of presenting themselves 



