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is disposed to conclude with Nicaragua, or the confederacy now in pro- 

 cess of estabhshment, a treaty of amity, aUiance, and commerce^ upon 

 bases of the most perfect reciprocity, by receiving or sending an agent 

 suitable for the conduct of so interesting a business. 



The irapbrtance of the subject of this communication must be evident 

 to the wisdom of his Excellency the President; and he may be assured 

 that any measure whicli he nriay be pleased to take for the reaioval of all 

 foreign influence or intervention from this portion of the continent will 

 be well received and highly esteemed b}^ the sovereign State of Nicaragua. 



The undersigned entertains the strongest confidence that the honorable 

 Secretary of State will make known his determination on this affair as 

 speedily as the importance of the case requires; and he avails himself of 

 this occasion to assure that minister of the high esteem and respect with 

 which he remains, &c., 



PABLO BUITRAGO. 

 To his Excellency the Minister of Foreign Relations 



of the Supreme Government of the Republic of the United States. 



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

 that the above communication was answered during the administration of 

 Mr. Polk. 



No. 1. 



T'he definitivp treaty of peace and friendship between his Britannic 

 Majes'y and the most Catholic King, signed at Versailles , the 3d day 

 of Septemb' r, 1783, as published by a;at!writy. In the name of the 

 Most Holy and undivided IHnity — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

 So be it. 



Be it known to all those whom it shall or may in any manner concern: 

 The most serene and most potent prince, George the Third, by the grace 

 of God King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, duke of Brunswick 

 and Lunenbourg, archtreasurer and elector of the holy Roman empire, 

 (fcc, and the most serene and most potent prince Charles the Third, by 

 the grace of God King of Spain and of the Indies, ifcc, being equally 

 desirous to put an end to the war which for several years past afflicted 

 their respective dominions, accepted the offer which their Majesties the 

 Emperor of the Romans and the Empress of all the Russias made to 

 them of their interposition and of their mediation; but their Britannic 

 and Catholic Majesties, animated with a mutual desire of accelerating 

 the re-establishment of peace, communicated to each other their laudable 

 intentions, which Heaven so far blessed that they proceeded to lay the 

 foundations of peace by signing preliminary articles at Versailles, the 

 20th of January, in the present year. Their said Majesties the King of 

 Great Britain and the Catholic King, thinking it incumbent upon them to 

 give their imperial majesties a signal proof of their gratitude for the gen- 

 erous offer of their mediation, invited them in concert to concur in the 

 completion of the great and salutary work of peace, by taking part, as 

 mediators, in the definitive treaty to be concluded between their Britan- 



