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known that this harbor is under the protectorate of Great 
Britain, and our worthy visitors were subjects of Her Majesty, 
as well as of His Majesty of the “Mosquito Coast.” They 
seem in fear of an army from Grenada, hence this precaution. 
The town consists of about fifty thatched houses, tenanted 
by French, English, German, Spanish, and Negroes. Things 
here are, in a measure, reverso; a negro is agent for Great 
Britain—his boots are blacked by a white man. We found a 
British man-of-war in port, which is kept here to enforce their 
wholesome regulations . 
The philanthropy of Great Britain has become proverbial. 
There is scarcely a port on the European continent that has not 
heard the music of her cannon, and been relieved of its surplus 
treasures. Three-fourths of a century ago, she succeeded in 
establishing, on the American continent, the government of the 
United States, and a few years thereafter voluntarily offered 
the use of a fleet and army at New Orleans, a part of which 
was used , the balance returned. Mexico has also been a recipi¬ 
ent of her kind attentions. She has taken possession of the 
richest mines in Mexico, and worked them gratuitously , sending 
off millions under the protection of the “red cross of St. 
George.” Her sappers and miners have found their way to 
Peru and Chili, as well as other divisions on the Pacific coast 
of South America, the mines of all of which have been taken 
possession of, and worked on the same accommodating terms as 
those of Mexico. She sent a fleet free of charge to the Argen¬ 
tine Republic, took possession of her ports, and forced the navi¬ 
gation of her rivers. Texas, after emerging from her glorious 
struggle for liberty, was offered the kind wing of protection; 
Great Britain even going so far as to offer her assistance in 
maintaining a separate republic, thinking annexation to the 
United States inexpedient. She visited China in the capacity 
of doctor, and most magnanimously forced her prescription 
down their unwilling throats. Her philanthropic eye next took 
a survey of Central America. Here she found governments 
of that odious form called republican, that of Nicaragua having 
an extent of sea coast, with accessible ports, and numerous 
rivers. 
No one, up to this time, had interfered with the jurisdiction 
