Show COUNTRY OF CONTINUAL UNREST AN aw the beginnings ot of the trouble troubles that wreck nicaragua at frequent intervale intervals lie ile back to its discovery by columbua columbus A small remnant of indiana has recently been found living on an island near speaking the lan ian guage of the aztecs and having ot of ruling in splendid cities over the subject tribes of tho the coast these cities of which great ruins remain at once attracted the spaniards to the in perlor so that from panama to yucatan not an important spanish settlement was formed on the caribbean coast and thus the coast tribes freed from aztec domination remained almost unknown to the spaniards having no property worth looting loot was plenty among the buccaneers but fresh food and they licked these the indians indian supplied commercial relations soon grew tip which speedily developed into an alliance against the spaniards by mean means of which the indians maintained their dence until their chief was carried in agas with great pomp to jamaica where he be sur I 1 rendered hie his authority to the duke of albo albe marle and was then crowned and received back his insignia as a vassal king under a british protectorate of all the tho coast from lagoon to yucatan Tu catan along what Is in known aa as the 1 mosquito coast subject to occasional chashes with the span lards tards matters went on thui thus for a century each successive mosquito king going to ja JR baica maica for st ire re and to rio do homage ef kin n ally in by the peace of paris england abandoned ite its protectorate over all U of the 11 coquito coast except for the th art now known aa as belize or british lion honduras duras which then became and still till remains a urit brit ish colony however Ilo wever it 11 was only 14 ye irs before the french revolutionary turmoil again brought war var between spain and england in the course of this toe the protectorate was revived so that in mite onite oc of becoming later the ally of england against napoleon the three succeeding kings of the first fait of 0 the nineteenth century were crowned as of old in jamaica or belize and did horn hom age for their kingdom the last in 1847 in 1821 after a long struggle all central american broke away from spain and offered to join the united states as five states an offer which was at once refused ae as the pop antion was cot not considered sufficient in num ber her to jut tifer ten seats in our senate nor sufficiently advanced otherwise to bo a d do clement element the refusal stirred up bad blood against the englich speaking peopled and a dispute with england orr over the krotec borate by the clayton bulk er treaty of 0 1850 both england and the united states baund them selves 1 not to bek seek exclusive rights in any part of central america again the protectorate made trouble and london and lV ashington agreed on a treaty by which the quito coast was to bo be protected by treaty with the central american stales states interested but these refused the sugg eted sted terms and finally la in 1830 great britain concluded conclude 4 separate prate ac treat lee let with honduras and nicaragua by which to the first she surrendered rendered eur absolutely till authority over the almost portion a busai of the coast claimed by honduras while to nicaragua elie she agreed to surrender eur render her protectorate ate and reco recognize guize the sovereignty of nicaragua nicaragua in turn agreed to grant complete local elt government to the mosquito then of 0 blood largely diluted with strains of white and jamaica negro and using egx lish ae as their official al language nicaragua alo also bound itself to make a free port of Grey town at the mouth of the navigable river by which the great central lake of nicaragua discharges into the caribbean sea and for ten years to pay annually to the mosquito India indiana nr a subsidy of 5 alter after 19 years leas less than half of the sub aldy had been paid while in violation of the treaty nicaragua had imposed duties at grey arey town under the pretext that they were to pay par the subsidy and had introduced a gov truer and a garrison at the mosquito kings capital and was otherwise vex ing the inhabitants so as to force them to abandon the english language and their local self government finally after most insolent treatment of the british consul at grey town who had been appointed the mosquito kings aget to receive the arrears england tent sent a warship to troytown Grey town nicaragua protested that as a the british protectorate had bad been withdrawn and nicaragua sovereignty recognized recognised over the coast it was none ol 01 En england glands s business busl nese whether hether nicaragua fulfill ed the treaty stipulations in favor of the n deans but the captain of the warship wad wai not moved by this and after much parley the entire matter was submitted to the arbitha tion of the emperor of 0 austria on two points the nicaraguan contentions vre were upheld ori that the subsidy wa wan of the nature of a rift gift and anti therefore that interest should not be added to the arrears anaf second that the vessels belonging to it the mosquito coast should hoitt hoist the nicaraguan nag flag though against NIca reua 0 contention they were allowed to holl holt hol l their own alongside of it but on every everl important point the decision waa was in favor of england under this dt decision casion settlers bein u to come coma in especially from conada ind jamaica and business became quite brisk nicaragua failed in another attempt to induce the coast to tote vote in favor of full citizenship and matter matters went on merrily till a few months after rise to tho the when in january 1824 18 a nicaraguan army suddenly appeared at and bent to the interior the chief justice and all the lend ing men of the coast and in their absences absen cef ordered an elett election lon with soldiers at every polling place to determine de finally the status of the coast in this election there could be only one result and nicaragua announced that the coast had bad accepted full citizenship in nicaragua and therefore british interference was at an end for ten years in spite of occasional attempt attempts at revolution one nearly a atut cattera nat tera went on fairly at lilu AD and business busl neet grew but in 1904 there began tent itic attempts to oppress this coall As a further vexation of forel grer the moravian missionaries and th h rah of england rector at Blue blumfelds felds who th the catholic i churchea hurc heft have been herr feI 0 ot of 0 existence are the only re rives ot of religion of any kind in nil all this r juvet had their schools closed because t jk in english |