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another communication on the 19th of the same month of March, in 

 which, after making some observations relative to the armistice of the 7th 

 March to demand the observance of the statuo quo sohcited in 'my last 

 communication, and defending the conduct of the Nicaraguan govern- 

 ment with respect to Mr. Christie, I asked, first, that her Britannic Ma- 

 jesty's government should annul what had been done by the said consul 

 in the demarcation, in the same way that they had annulled the commis- 

 sion conferred by the superintendent of Belize on certain individuals to 

 legislate at Mosquitos, declaring that the proceedings gone through in 

 virtue of the said commission ought not to be considered as having more 

 value or force than they might have had without being authorized by her 

 Britannic Majesty; 2dly, that in the same manner they should give 

 orders to the governor of Jamaica not to send any convicts, or other kind 

 of force, until the question shall have been definitively settled, protesting, 

 besides, against the Moravian mission, if its object were the propagation 

 of a religion contrary to that professed by the State of Nicaragua; 3dly, 

 that they should disapprove of the conduct of Mr. Christie towards tlie 

 government of Nicaragua, as contrary to the views and interests of her 

 Majesty's government; and 4thly, that they should nanre arbiters to de- 

 cide the question relative to San Juan and Mosquitos as soon as possible. 

 I did not obtain any written answer until the 6th of April, the day on 

 which I left for the continent, and his lordship had only told me verbally 

 that the means I had proposed to decide the question were dishonoring 

 to her Britannic Majesty's government, which had already declared, after 

 viewing the documents, that San Juan belonged to Mosquitos, and con- 

 sequently they could not be expected, though he reiterated the protesta- 

 tions he had before made me in favor of Nicaragua. My ansAver was, that 

 I was waiting to have that declaration made to me in writing, in order to 

 deliberate and resolve as to what might be more convenient for the 

 interests of my country, and which he offered to do very soon. Such 

 was the state of this affair up to the 6th of April. On the 26th, under 

 pretext of a reclamation from the conm:iittee of bondholders of Central 

 America, relative to the part appertaining to Nicaragua of the debt con- 

 tracted by the republic of Central America in 1825, his lordship persists 

 in the declaration of the ITth of February, that the port of San Juan 

 (which Lord Palmerston already calls Greytown in all his communica- 

 tions) belongs exclusively to Mosquitos, and that I ought not, for this 

 reason, to have invited the creditors to support the claim to such a port, 

 as I have done, founded on the reason that it was one of the revenues 

 affected to the payment of the loan; which affair will be the subject of 

 the following remarks : 



Foreign debt. 



This proceeds from a loan raised in virtue of a decree of the federal 

 Congress dated the 6th of December, 1824, by the President of the 

 repubUc, with the house of Messrs. Barclay & Co., for the nominal sum of 

 Sf, 142,857. The loan contractors engaged to lend ^200,000 within two 

 months, and $150,000 after seven and nine months respectively. The 

 first sum was punctually paid, but the second only in part, and thus it 

 was that only the sum of j|^328,316 on account of the loan entered 

 the treasury of the federation. Nevertheless, the shares were put into 



