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apelo para aguardar que el gobiemo de S. M. no exijira otra cosa que 

 podiera estimarse agena de la consideracion a que creen tener derecho en 

 su calidad de seres poMticos. 



Esperando una contestacion de V. E. me es muy honroso repetirle las 

 demostraciones de respetuosa amistad y atencion con que acostumbro 

 firmar-me del muy honorable Yisconde de PalmerstoU; obediente y humilde 

 servidor. 



FRANCISCO CASTELLON. 



A. S. E. Lord Palmerston, 



Mmistro de Negocios E stranger os de S. M. B. 



No. 6. 



Copie d^une lettre de Mons. Vande Weger au Ministre des Affaires Etran- 



geres du Belgique. 



LoNDRES, le 7 Mars, 1849. 



M. LE Ministre: J'ai eu avec Lord Palmerston une entretien au sujet 

 de la nature des relations politiques de I'Angleterre avec les Etats de 

 Nicaragua et de Honduras. 



Sa seigneurie m'a reponda: Le differend dont vous me paries est une 

 simple question de limites^, etqui estmeme a cette heure en voie d' arrange- 

 ment." 



L'Angleterre verrait avec plaisir la Belgique nouer avec les Etats du 

 Nicaragua et de Hmduras des relations qui pourraient plus tard ouvrir a 

 son commerce des debouches etendus et avantageux^ car ces etats seront 

 appeles a une epoque pen eloign^e a une grand prosperite commerciale. 

 La Belgique a, daus quelques-unes des ses provinces, une population 

 surabondante; l'Am6rique Centrale offre aux emigrants Beiges des terres 

 fertiles a une distance peu considerable de la mere patrie." 

 Agreez; etc. 



No. r. 



London, March 19, 1849. 



My Lord: A letter published in the Globe of the 14th instant, dated at 

 San Juan de Nicaragua on the 27th of January last, has informed me, 

 firstly, that Mr. Christie, having been authorized by your excellency to 

 fix the boundary of the Mosquito territory towards the interior of the 

 country, has designed the Machuca rapids, thirty miles above the mouth 

 of the river Serapique, as the western limit of that territory; secondly, 

 that arrangements are on the point of being made for the transportation of 

 convicts from Jamaica, and also for sending a police force to San Juan; 

 thirdly, that a Moravian mission was soon to arrive there, bound to the 

 Mosquito shore, and exclusively dedicated to the education of those In- 

 dians. The author of the letter, who is not unknown to me, also says 

 that he is very curious to hear what will be the result of my mission to her 

 Britannic Majesty's government, after the refusal of that of Nicaragua to 



