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Western Continent, and formally waived any right to 
raise or move “ any question or controversy concern¬ 
ing the same hereafter.” 
Black Biver appears to have been the chief settle¬ 
ment at that time. The fort was garrisoned by a com¬ 
pany of the 49th Regiment under Captain Laurie. 
Lord Bathurst ordered a legislative council to be 
chosen there in 1775. King George, the great-grand¬ 
father of the late King, was crowned there in 1777; 
and in the previous year, under commission, a Court 
of Common Pleas was established. 
In 1778, in consequence of a quarrel between the 
Governor of Jamaica and the Superintendent of the 
Shore (in relation to the interpretation of the 19th 
Article of the treaty of Versailles), the latter was su¬ 
perseded, the fort razed to the ground, the detachment 
of soldiers and the guns removed to Jamaica, the Mos¬ 
quito Indians abandoned, and the charge of their go¬ 
vernment resigned. 
The clause alluded to was this:—“ His Britannic 
Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifica¬ 
tions which his subjects shall have erected in the Bay 
of Honduras , and other places of the territory of Spam, 
in that part of the world, within four months after the 
ratification of the treaty,” etc. 
The Superintendent of the “ Shore” declared that 
the Mosquito Coast had nothing to do with the Bay of 
Honduras, inasmuch as that Bay was bounded to the 
eastward by the Bay of Islands; and it was certainly 
not a “place of the territory of Spain,” never having 
been in the occupation of that power. But, unfor- 
