Mr. Gresham to Mr. Bayard.
Washington, December 31, 1894.
Sir: I have received your dispatch of the 22d instant, confirming your telegraphic denial, on Lord Kimberley’s explicit authority, of the rumors of intended British intervention in Nicaragua and the supposed [Page 363] purpose to countenance the restoration of the Mosquito Indian regime under Clarence.
Your present dispatch amplifies the assurance you had already obtained at the foreign office, as reported in yours of November 27, that the voluntary incorporation of the Mosquito Indians into the Republic of Nicaragua would be a welcome and final solution of the problem of Mosquitia.
I inclose for your information in this regard translation of a note addressed to me by the Nicaraguan minister1 here on the 28th instant, communicating text of the instrument by which those Indians have become incorporated into the Republic and subject to its general laws, with reservation of certain defined privileges, as well as a copy of my reply to Dr. Guzman.2
The full Nicaraguan correspondence, covering the events of the past year, has been prepared for transmission to the Senate in answer to a resolution calling therefor, and when communicated and printed will be sent to you.
I am, etc.,