Transit Company against the enforcement of the terms of a written agreement by the de facto Government of Greytown, with which the agreement had been voluntarily made.

It was quite competent to The United States commander to use the most urgent means of persuasion with the Government of Greytown to induce them to desist from their ill-judged course of violence, but not to employ an armed force for that purpose.

Mr. Marcy observes that if, as Nicaragua asserts, Punta Arenas is within the territorial limits of Nicaragua, the right of the Accessory Transit Company can hardly be drawn in question, because they hold their charter from the Government of Nicaragua. But the fact of the Company having rented Punta Arenas, as above described, from Greytown by a voluntary written agreement, founded on their own application, sets this question at rest; for having acknowledged the right of Greytown, and held under that acknowledgment, the company cannot now turn round and acknowledge the opposite right of Nicaragua.

Her Majesty's Government deeply regret the language which The United States' Secretary of State has thought it expedient to employ in his despatch in speaking of the Mosquito country and of Nicaragua. Her Majesty's Government were necessarily conscious of the light in which the Government of The United States had always, and, it is admitted, consistently, viewed the Mosquito country. But The United States' Government were equally cognizant of the long-standing relations of Great Britain with that country, and of the moral impossibility of her abandoning that country and its ruler, after ages of protection afforded to them, without making such terms in their favour as should be consistent with their own fair claims, and with the dignity and honour of the British Crown.

Under this well-known difference of views it was the more to be desired that both Governments should sedulously abstain from all language calculated to bring that difference more prominently into view; and that they should, on the contrary, employ their best efforts to throw that difference into the shade, and to settle the question at issue in a manner equally beneficial and creditable to both.

I have already stated in my despatch of the 27th of May, that until the general Central American question shall have been finally determined, Her Majesty's Government must regard the territorial rights of Mosquito, including Greytown (saving the de facto arrangement entered into with regard to the latter) in the same light in which they have always been regarded by Great Britain; and that Her Majesty's Government cannot recognize any pretension on the part of Nicaragua or of Honduras to any part of that territory. They must, on the contrary, continue to resist any such pretension.

In repeating this declaration, however, Her Majesty's Government again, and in the most cordial manner, invite The United States' Government to join with them in devising and carrying out such an arrangement with regard to the Mosquito country, and Central America generally, as shall both tend to remove any chance of future misunderstanding between two great and kindred countries, and shall also afford a better prospect than now exists of bringing into the pale of political and commercial enlightenment a vast and noble region lying between the northern and southern continents of America, which, to all practical intents, is now lost to the world. I am, &c.

J. F. Crampton, Esq.

CLARENDON.

No. 172.—Mr. Crampton to the Earl of Clarendon.—(Rec. Aug. 29.) MY LORD, Washington, August 14, 1853. ALTHOUGH I was not instructed to read to Mr. Marcy your Lordship's despatch of the 22nd ultimo, upon the subject of the proceedings at Greytown of Captain Hollins, of The United States' ship Cyane, I have thought it would be expedient to do so, and to leave him a copy of it, from the following considerations, which I hope will meet your Lordship's approval.

Your Lordship's despatch contains a distinct statement of an important fact which Mr. Marcy seemed, in his despatch to Mr. Ingersoll, to have lost sight of, or not to have been informed of. I mean the fact that the Transit Company had made a voluntary application to the authorities of Greytown for a grant of a portion of land at Punta d'Arenas, and entered into an agreement therefor, by which they engaged themselves to evacuate it whenever called upon by the Government of Greytown.

I found, upon conversing with Mr. Marcy, that he had in fact been misinformed upon this subject, as he stated to me, by Mr. Joseph L. White, the legal adviser and agent of the company at New York, who asserted that no such contract had been entered into by the company; and I therefore felt anxious to correct the erroneous impression under which Mr. Marcy was labouring.

Mr. Marcy's observations in regard to your Lordship's despatch were couched in friendly language. He entirely disclaimed any intention of adopting a hostile tone in his despatch to Mr. Ingersoll of the 9th of June last; and he remarked, that if the difference of the views of the 2 Governments in regard to the Mosquito title had been brought forward prominently in that despatch, although the opinion of The United States' Government was, as your Lordship observed, already well known to Her Majesty's Government, this had been done from a feeling on the part of the present Administration of The United States, which had but lately acceded

to office, that the possibility of any misunderstanding as to their views should be avoided.

The Earl of Clarendon.

I have, &c.

JOHN F. CRAMPTON.

No. 173.-The Earl of Clarendon to Mr. Crampton.

SIR, Foreign Office, September 2, 1853. I APPROVE of your having given to Mr. Marcy, as reported in your despatch of the 14th ultimo, a copy of my despatch, dated the 22nd July, respecting the proceedings of Captain Hollins at Greytown.

J. F. Crampton, Esq.

I am, &c.

CLARENDON. No. 174.-Mr. Crampton to the Earl of Clarendon.-(Rec. Sept. 26.) (Extract.) Washington, September 11, 1853.

I HAVE not failed to inquire of Mr. Marcy whether there is any truth in the allegation which has been made to Her Majesty's Consul-General in Central America, that The United States have offered to the Government of Guatemala to support any claim which Guatemala may choose to put forward to Belize and the adjacent territory.

Mr. Marcy replied, without hesitation, that the allegation is utterly untrue.

"Not only," said Mr. Marcy, "has no such offer been made to Guatemala by The United States' Government, but it is, moreover, my decided opinion, after a careful examination of the subject, as well as the opinion of, I believe, every other member of the Cabinet, that the claim of Guatemala is unfounded; and of this opinion, I believe, M. Molina is well aware. There can be no doubt," he added, "that the settlement of Belize is situated in Old Guatemala, and that, consequently, Mexico has inherited whatever interest Spain had in that territory before the emancipation of her American colonies. Your title, therefore, under the Treaty with Spain of 1786 within the limits there assigned, and confirmed by your Treaty with Mexico of 1826, appears to be indubitable." The Earl of Clarendon.

JOHN F. CRAMPTON.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Turkish Blockade of the Coasts extending from Dulcigno to the extreme Turkish Frontier.-London, January 11, 1853.

Foreign Office, January 11, 1853. Ir is hereby notified, that the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from Colonel Hugh Rose, Her Majesty's

Chargé d'Affaires at Constantinople, a despatch, bearing date the 17th of December last, inclosing an affixed note dated the 15th of December last, addressed to him by Fuad Effendi, the Ottoman Minister for Foreign Affairs, announcing the establishment of the blockade of the coasts which extend from Dulcigno to the extreme Turkish frontier, by the naval forces of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, for the purpose of preventing munitions of war or provisions from being landed upon the said coasts.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the raising of the Turkish Blockade of the Coasts of Antivari.-London, May, 1853.

Ir is hereby notified, that the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Her Majesty's Ambassador at the Sublime Porte, a despatch, dated Constantinople, April the 12th, 1853, inclosing the translation of a circular memorandum, addressed by the Porte to the Foreign Missions, announcing the raising of the blockade of the coasts of Antivari, in consequence of the cessation of hostilities against Montenegro. The tenor of the circular memorandum, addressed by the Porte to the Foreign Missions, is as follows:

(Traduction du Turc.)

Memorandum remis par Rifaat Pacha à Son Excellence le Vicomte Stratford de Redcliffe, le 10 Avril, 1853.

1er Rejeb, 1269.

VOTRE Excellence sait que pour réprimer la révolte des habitans de Montenegro, qui fait partie de l'Empire Ottoman, révolte qui a éclaté dernièrement, le blocus avait été établi sur les côtes d'Antivari. Comme, sous les auspices de Sa Majesté le Sultan, la tranquillité a été rétablie à Montenegro, Sa Hautesse a ordonné la levée du blocus, ce qui a été porté à la connaissance des autorités de la Sublime Porte là-bas.

Je m'empresse d'informer votre Excellence aussi de la levée du blocus pour la connaissance de ceux qu'il faut.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the Blockade of the Port of Buenos Ayres, by order of the Provisional Director of the Argentine Confederation.-London, June, 1853.

Ir is hereby notified, that Rear-Admiral Henderson, Commanderin-Chief of Her Majesty's Forces in the Rio de la Plata, has received

a notification from Commodore Jos. Halsted Coe, the Chief of the National Squadron of the Argentine Confederation, relating to the blockade of Buenos Ayres, the translation of which is as follows:

"Outer Roads of Buenos Ayres, on board the national steamer of war Correo, April 23, 1853.

"The Undersigned has the honour to inform you, that he has received instructions and orders from his Excellency the Director of the Argentine Confederation, Brigadier-General Don Justo José de Urquiza, to communicate to you, that his Excellency, considering that the moment has arrived to conclude and put an end to the existing state of things in the province of Buenos Ayres, considers one of the most expedient measures to be the establishment, by water, of a rigorous blockade of that part of the port which is in the power of the insurgents of the town of Buenos Ayres (que dominan los revolucionarios de la plaza de Buenos Aires).

And the Undersigned, in carrying it out, gives notice to you that the blockade of the above-mentioned part of this port is established from this date, granting a term of 6 days, counted from the same date for foreign vessels to leave the inner roads, and 20 days for those that are in the outer roads.

Which I have the honour of communicating to you for the ends consequent thereupon.

"Admiral Henderson, Commander-in

chief of the Forces of Her Britannic Majesty, in the Rio de la Plata."

"JOS. ALSTED COE.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the raising of the Blockade of the Port of Buenos Ayres, established by order of the Provisional Director of the Argentine Confederation.-London, August 24, 1853.

Foreign Office, August 24, 1853. Ir is hereby notified, that the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.B., Her Majesty's Minister on a Special Mission, and from Martin T. Hood, Esq., late Her Majesty's Consul at Buenos Ayres, despatches, dated respectively the 22nd and 24th of June last, announcing that the blockade of the port of Buenos Ayres, heretofore established by the Provisional Director General Urquiza, has ceased to exist since the 20th of June aforesaid.