The Continent is decidedly on our side, holding that Mr.
Cleveland's pretension would introduce an entirely new practice into international law. Even France, with all her jealousy of Great Britain, is clear upon this point, which indeed affects herself directly. A revolutionary chief in Brazil, named Cabral, claims authority in a district of French Guiana, also claimed by the French Government, and recently punished M. Evariste, a pilot, who navigated a French war- ship to Amapa, by roasting him alive. He was not killed, but kept in prison in horrible torture. French Guiana is ex- cited by these and other atrocities, and demands an expedition to secure the disputed territory. If it is despatched, France will, like England, have violated the extended Monroe doc- trine, and President Cleveland, if he cares to be consistent. must threaten her with war. The plain truth of the matter is that Mr. Olney's reading of the Monroe doctrine involves the protectorate of both the American continents, and without that is unworkable. Yet that is repudiated in the very despatch to which Lord Salisbury replied.
