342 
DOTTING^ ON THE KOADSIDE. [Chap. XXL—B. P. 
Mr. Crampton to Viscount 
Palmerston. 
“Washington, 17 th 
September, 1849. 
^Mr. Clayton having re¬ 
quested me to call upon him 
at the Department of State, 
said that he wished to con¬ 
verse with me frankly and 
confidentially upon the sub¬ 
ject of the proposed passage 
across the Isthmus, by way. 
of Nicaragua and the river- 
San Juan. 
“ He (Mr. Clayton) pro¬ 
ceeded to read to me a portion 
of the instructions which have 
been given to Mr. Squier, 
who has been lately sent as 
U.S. Charge d^ Affaires to 
Nicaragua. By these, Mr. 
Squier is directed not only not 
to negotiate any Treaty with 
that Government on the sub¬ 
ject of a passage across the 
Isthmus, but not to give his 
support or countenance to any 
contract entered into by pri¬ 
vate citizens of the United 
States with Nicaragua on 
that subject, of an exclusive 
nature.” 
*« 
rica,’ published 1856. 
Nov. 1850, pp. 433-486, 
Italics are by the Author. 
Mr. Crampton to Viscount 
Palmerston. 
“ Washington, 15 th 
October, 1849. 
“ Mr. Clayton yesterday in¬ 
formed me that he had re¬ 
ceived intelligence from Mr. 
Squier, the U.S. Minister, 
lately sent to Nicaragua, that 
Mr. Squier had, in the early 
part of last month, concluded 
a Treaty with that State re¬ 
garding the construction of 
an Interoceanic Canal across 
the territory, . . . which 
Mr. Clayton informs me was 
drawn up under the supervi¬ 
sion of Mr. Squier.” . . . 
“ With regard to the allu¬ 
sion made by Mr. Squier to 
Mr. Monroe^s doctrine re¬ 
specting the colonization of 
any part of the American 
continent by a European 
power, Mr. Clayton remarked 
that the present administra¬ 
tion of the United States in 
no way adopted that princi¬ 
ple, and that Mr. Squier was 
not instructed to make any 
allusion to it in his commu¬ 
nications with the Nicara¬ 
guan Government.”* 
Correspondence with the United States concerning Central Ame- 
See also e Colonial Magazine, 5 no. lxxxiii. 
for a descriptive account of Mr. Squiei. 
