Government, this good and excellent agent, Mr. Chatfield, has addressed to M. Salinas, the Nicaraguan Secretary of State, a certain letter as to boundaries, dated December 5th, 1850, and published for the first time, in this country, since last we wrote, in the New-York Herald, and other daily papers of February 10th, 1851, by which, in defiance of all right and justice, he declares a portion of Nicaragua within certain boundaries, as by Lord Palmerston directed, as a portion over which "the Government of her Britannic Majesty proposes to assert its sovereignty on behalf of the Mosquito King." This letter further threatens, should these boundaries be questioned, to use force against Nicaragua, and further asserts that until they be yielded in full to the English, "no canal or other mode of transit can be (or shall be) established." We give this letter in full:

d'Affaires in Central America, with this view, has the honor to declare to the Minister of Foreign Relations of the Supreme Government of Nicaragua, that the general boundary line of the Mosquito territory begins at the northern extremity of the boundary line between the district of Tegucigalpa, in Honduras, and the jurisdiction of New of New Segovia, it runs along the south-eastern Segovia; and after following the northern frontiers limit of the district of Martagalpa and Chontales, and thence in an eastern course until it reaches the Machuca Rapids, on the river San Juan.

To prevent any misunderstanding about the Nicaragua, prior to its severance from Spain in towns and villages comprised in the province of 1821, a list of the curacies and their dependencies, within the diocese of Nicaragua, is affixed to this note; and only such towns and villages, with their commons or public lands, and the estates of private that list, lying on the eastern and north-eastern individuals having proper titles, as were named in frontier of Nicaragua, will be deemed to be without the limits of Mosquito, on the frontier of Nicaragua.

In conclusion, the undersigned has to state that the boundaries above described are those which divide the two countries; but he repeats that her Majesty's Government continues willing to treat and agree with the Government of Nicaragua for the final settlement of these questions on an amicable and permanent basis; and the undersigned trusts that the Government of Nicaragua will see the policy of coming to a friendly understanding with the Mosquito King; for it is obvious that no canal, or any other mode of transit across the Isthmus, can well be established before the difficulty raised by Nicaragua upon this point is put an end I am, &c. &c., FRED. CHATFIELD.

to.

GUATEMALA, Dec. 5, 1850. To the Minister of Foreign Relations at Nicaragua: SIR-The frequent overtures which, in the name of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, acting on behalf of the King of Mosquito, have been made to the republic of Nicaragua, with a view to determine, by a solid argument, the boundary between the dominions of the King of Mosquito and the territories of the republic of Nicaragua, have been systematically rejected. Her Britannic Majesty judges that the interests and convenience of both parties require that this point should no longer remain unsettled, and as a proof of the conciliatory spirit which animates her Britannic Majesty on this subject, it has been determined that the frontiers of the King of Mosquito, on the side of Nicaragua, and of Nicaragua on the side of Mosquito, shall be such as they were on the 15th of September, 1821, when Nicaragua, as a part of the ancient kingdom of Guatemala, declared its independence of the Spanish monarchy. 4th. Thus far as to Lord Palmerston's By establishing this basis of arrangement, the respective situations of the two countries is deter-responsibility in the seizure of Mosquitia mined by the legislative and ecclesiastic regulations of Nicaragua; since all the towns and villages which lie near the borders of Mosquito, and which have municipalities and curacies, will remain, as heretofore, under the jurisdiction of the Government and authorities of Nicaragua.

The imperfect geographical knowledge of the interior of Central America opposes, for the present, a considerable difficulty to the determination of the latitude and longitude of the places along the eastern and north-eastern border of Nicaragua; but circumstances require that the general line of boundary should be made known, which the Government of her Majesty proposes to assert for the Mosquito King, the Government of Nicaragua refusing to enter into an amicable disposition on the subject, and to appoint commissioners to ascertain and mark the divisional line between the lands of Mosquito and the lands of Nicaragua.

The undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Chargé

It is downright folly, or the basest hypocrisy, to throw any blame on Mr. Chatfield for this or any other act; he is merely the agent of Mr. Bulwer and Lord Palmerston, and faithfully does as ordered.

and San Juan. Now as to the treaty. Mr.
Chatfield has been charged with breaking
and misconstruing this treaty without direc-
tion from his Government or from Mr. Bul-
wer. The following letter from Mr. Chatfield
to M. Salinas more fully shows the relation
of Lord Palmerston to the recent seizures
in Nicaragua, having been written by his di-
rection after the Clayton and Bulwer treaty
was ratified by him. We give it in full
too :-

GUATEMALA, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 1850.
To the Minister of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua:
SIR-Mr. Foster, H. B. M.'s Vice-Consul at
Realejo, has informed me of the steps which he
has taken in consequence of the losses of Mr.
Bescher & Co., in Grenada, by act of public

6th. Lest Mr. Webster should have any doubt about the intentions of Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer and his Government, towards both the treaty already made between this country and Great Britain, and towards "Mosquitia," the above letters were followed by a treaty signed with Mr. Bulwer's own hand, which he proposes to Mr. Webster to make between this country and Nicaragua ; and the reasons for proposing this treaty are

1. The treaty existing between this country and Nicaragua guarantees protection and neutrality to it and the proposed canal, including the whole Nicaraguan territory, both on the Atlantic and the Pacific.

II. The treaty made between Mr. Clayton and Mr. Bulwer, according to Lord Palmerston's fabricated interpretation, “recognizes" British usurpation over the whole Mr. Clayton eastern half of Nicaragua.

violence, and for the recovery of a debt contracted by the Government of Nicaragua for the use of his boats. In the answer given by you to Mr. Foster, of the date of the 20th of July, I observe some expressions relative to the Mosquito coast and its authorities, which induce me to think that your Government does not yet understand the true position of the Mosquito question, and to submit some remarks upon it. I do not care to notice the discourteous expressions and evil disposition which the Government of Nicaragua uses and evinces in speaking of Great Britain and its agents in referring to the Mosquito ques-three: tion, being disposed to ascribe it to their inexperience and bad counsels; but this does not preclude me from recommending to you that your interests will be better promoted by treating this question independently of the false accounts and exaggerations of interested persons. Instead of insisting on its supposed rights to the Mosquito shore, Nicaragua would best consult her interests by at once making good terms with England, for resistance in this matter will be of no further avail. It is impossible that Nicaragua should be ignorant of her Britannic Majesty's relation to the Mosquito question, as it has before it the letter of Viscount Palmerston, of the date of the 15th of April last, in which he declares, in the most clear and direct terms, the utter impossibility of acceding to the pretensions of Nicaragua. On the other hand, the treaty of Messrs. Clayton and Bulwer, about which you have so much to say, and in which you express so much confidence, expressly recognizes the Mosquito Kingdom, and sets aside the rights which you pretend Nicaragua has on that coast. The true policy for Nicaragua is to undeceive herself in this respect, and to put no further confidence in the protestations or as surances of pretended friends, [viz., Americans.] It will be far better for her to come to an understanding without delay with Great Britain, on which nation depends not only the welfare and commerce of the State, but also the probability of accomplishing any thing positive concerning interoceanic communication through her territories, [complimentary to the Canal Company this!] because it is only in London that the necessary capital for such an enterprise can be found.

In conclusion, I have only to repeat what I have said so many times, that the British Government is animated by the best wishes toward Nicaragua, and is anxious that it shall acquire a respectable position among nations.

I have, &c. &c. &c.,

FREDERICK CHATFIELD.

5th. Mr. Webster has in his possession official letters from Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer to him, declaring that the construction put upon the Clayton and Bulwer treaty by Mr. Chatfield is that put upon it, and directed to be maintained with reference to it, by Lord Palmerston himself. These letters were official, and Mr. Bulwer was directed by his Government to address them officially to Mr. Webster; and he did so address them, and Mr. Webster now has them.

and all honest men declare it does not.
Hence there is a confliction, and to settle
the matter Mr. Bulwer has the audacity to
that-
propose

III. A new treaty be entered into between this country and Nicaragua, by which this country shall recognize, in positive and deliberate terms, British rule in "Mosquitia" and San Juan, and confine its former treaty of protection and neutrality to Nicaragua within the limits not cla'med by Mr. Chatfield's letter of boundaries. We shall here not discourse on the cool and impertinent interference of Mr. Bulwer in our affairs, and between two sister Republics, in thus pushing a treaty for this country with another, with which he has nothing to do, into the very throat of our minister. That Mr. Webster should have flung the "treaty " in his face, and ordered him out of the door, and out of the country, any man of ordinary spirit will very easily conclude. But Mr. Webster did not took the treaty, and now has it; and the signature of Mr. Bulwer is thereto affixed.

8th. The entire design of the British Government acquires a dramatic light from the transparent attempts to heap indignities, through our agency, on Nicaragua. It is the farce of Dombey and Son over again, recast, with Mr. Webster as Dombey, Mr. Bulwer as Carker, and Nicaragua as the fair Edith. Indeed the very phraseology Dickens places in the mouth of the villainous go-between, when insulting the lorn

letter had ever been. We now record it in our pages, and have but to add that Mr. Bulwer has not only acknowledged the authorship, but endeavored to apologize to Mr. Clayton, by saying he did not intend the allu

young wife, might fairly be used by Sir | some of our most respected readers have Henry Carker Bulwer on the present occa- expressed themselves doubtful that such a sion. Mr. Bulwer's object is evidently to disgust the Nicaraguan Government with us, that so in a moment of her frenzy he may ride off with the lovely partner "of our Republican affections." In the letter last above extracted will be found that ex-sions as personal to him, but merely as a curt ceedingly English, and to us exceedingly insolent passage about "pretended friends," to which we have heretofore referred. In the following letter the same insulting hint is more plainly repeated--very amusing to us from the fact of the writer advising folks "that no reliance should be placed on such assurances" as we may give :

GUATEMALA, Dec. 5, 1850. To the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua:

SIR-With reference to my former note on the same subject, I have the honor to recommend to the immediate attention of the Government of Nicaragua, the policy of arranging with Messrs. Beschor and Co., of Greytown, for the wanton destruction of their piraguas in April last.*

Mr. Vice Consul Foster has received orders from her Majesty's Government to press this claim to a satisfactory conclusion, and to call in, if necessary, the aid of her Majesty's naval forces.

It is very desirable for Nicaragua, now that the country has acquired a certain station from its geographical position, that the Nicaraguan Government should no longer persist in refusing all discussion and accommodation in respect to matters presented to it for arrangement by foreign powers. Whatever assurances Nicaragua may receive that the conduct of its Government, however irregular it may be towards another, will at all times receive sup port from third parties, [meaning the United States,] still the Government of Nicaragua must feel that no reliance should be placed on such as surances, as no foreign Government will compromise political and commercial interests in behalf of a country whose rulers reject the ordinary means of settling matters open to dispute.

Yours, &c. &c., FRED. CHATFIELD.

That is, according to Chatfield and his abettors, the United States won't fight.

9th. And now, that there may be no doubt where these impertinent insinuations have originated, and who is really responsible for them, we here place on record the notorious "intercepted letter" from Mr. Bulwer to Mr. Chatfield. We reproduce it now, that our friends may have it by them, and because

*This Beschor claim is precisely similar to the Pacifico claim which the English lately used as a pretense to blockade Greece. Beschor is a German Jew, an agent of the British in San Juan, and a runaway swindler from the North.

essay on Republican institutions; that is, that the insult was not intended for an individual, but for the whole country-pretty apology!

SIR HENRY BULWER TO MR. CHATFIELD.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 1850. Dear Sir:-I have received your communications up to 3d of January inclusive. I was glad to hear of your arrangement with the Governor of Honduras, and I trust that you will thus have settled the question of claims before the order for evacuating Tigre Island arrives. [That is to say, that the Nicaraguans, under fear of losing the Island of Tigre, might have been compelled to give up all claim on the town and river of San Juan; ;settling your claim to your own purse under fear of being choked. No wonder that these people are insensible to such justice.] I know that it justice, if you cannot keep before their eyes the ultiis difficult to deal with such people on matters of mate argument of force, and I feel exceedingly for your position, with such a gentleman as Squier "making capital" at your elbow. But pray let me take the liberty of suggesting to you that it is well be done for the particular interest you have in always to consider, not only what you think should hand, but what your Government, which has so many interests to consider, will back you in doing; is to be made backwards, only renders matters since, to make a step forwards, if subsequently it doings hurry you too much out of the line which you I would not, also, let Mr. Squier's miswould otherwise pursue. [The fellow had his course is, he went too quick.] His conduct is generally actually marked out for him-and the only fault disapproved of here; and I know that the State Department has formally disapproved of it.

worse.

Neither do I think that this Government has at to credit it for. It is, however, a weak Government, the present moment the views you seem inclined and being suspected by the popular party, is ever afraid of seeming in favor of any policy that is unpopular. Thus, though its intentions may be trusted, its course cannot be relied upon. Attempts think they may succeed: they ought to do so. are being made to settle the Mosquito business. I We have every wish to aid in constructing a canal, that is, in protecting its construction, and guaran teeing its security [its security in your possession, Mr. Bulwer; is not that it?] when constructed. Nor have we any great interest in the Mosquito protectorate, or any selfish object to serve by maintaining it. But we ought not and I believe will not abandon it dishonorably, nor permit the Nicaraguans, WHOM WE HAVE EXPELLED THEREFROM, [a very plain confession of the means by

We have now cleared up three things: first, who authorized the seizure of San Juan, who authorized the positive infraction, or, in other words, the false interpretation of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty, and who authorized the insulting epithets and insinuations ber 13th, has several articles and official commuThe official paper of San Salvador, of Decemof Mr. Chatfield with reference to this coun-nications which show the nature of the English try. It was not Mr. Chatfield.