Mr. Gresham to Mr. Bayard.
Washington, December 3, 1894.
Sir: I have read with much interest yours of the 24th ultimo, in which you report the substance of an interview on the preceding day with Lord Kimberley in relation to the present position of question between Great Britain and Nicaragua.
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Lord Kimberley’s statement to you that the attitude of Great Britain in this matter is wholly unconnected with any political or conventional question touching the Mosquito Reservation is in gratifying confirmation of the communications made to me by Sir Julian Pauncefote and Mr. Goschen, and I was prepared for his lordship’s acquiescence in your view that the political questions involved may readily yield to pacific and generous treatment on the part of Nicaragua toward the Mosquito Indians, with a view to their formal incorporation with the Republic, as contemplated in the treaty of Managua.
The statement made to you by Señor Barrios that he had been advised by telegraph that Mr. Gosling, the British minister at Managua, “declined to accept decrees of the Nicaraguan commissioner in Mosquito,” is more explicit than other information here received, and suggests that the minister’s opposition may have been in regard to particular measures affecting British subjects.
I am, etc.,