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I avail myself of this occasion to offer to you, sir, the assurances ot 

 my esteem, and distinguished consideration with which I have the honor 

 to be your most humble servant^ 



EDUARDO CARCACHE. 



To the Hon. J. M. Clayton, 



Secretary of State of the United States, 



Mr, Clayton to Mr. Car cache. 



Department of State, 



Washington, January 2, 1850. 



Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 

 31st ultimo, stating that the principal object of your mission was to solicit 

 the ratification, on the part of this government, of the treaty between the 

 United States and Nicaragua, signed at Leon on the 3d of September last. 



In regard to the special convention signed by Mr. Hise, to which you 

 refer, it is to be remarked tliat, although he had no power or instructions 

 from this government to conchide a treaty of any kind with the govern- 

 ment of Nicaragua, the President would have deemed himself under an 

 obligation to submit that convention to the consideration of the Senate of 

 the United States, if, in his judgment, the public interests involved should 

 have warranted and required him to adopt that course. If, however, as 

 you state, that convention has not been approved by your government, 

 there is no necessity for its further consideration by the government of 

 the United States. 



The President will communicate the treaty of the 3d of September last 

 to the Senate, and will cheerfully ratify it if it shall be approved by that 

 body, with the understanding that any supplementary articles which 

 probable events may render necessary for more effectually securing the 

 objects contemplated by the 35th article of the treaty shall be agreed 

 upon between the two governments. 



I avail myself of this occasion, sir, to offer to you the assurance of my 

 high consideration. 



JOHN M. CLAYTON. 



[No. 13.] Department of State, 



Washington, December 29, 1849. 



Sir: Your despatches to No. 14 inclusive have been received. De- 

 spatches have also recently reached the department from E. George 

 Squier, charge d'affaires of the United States at Guatemala, giving 

 information of the military occupation of the island of Tigre, in the gulf 

 of Fonseca, on the 16th of October last, by the naval forces of her Britan- 

 nic Majesty, under the order of her consul general and charge d'affaires 

 near the government of Guatemala, Mr. Chatfield. 



It is now evident that the British flag has been hoisted in Honduras by 

 order of Mr. Chatfield, and it is beheved that other aggressions upon the 

 territories of the Central American States have been made by the same 

 authority. 1 transmit herewith a copy of Mr. Squier's despatches Nos. 7 



