General Walker has stolen a march equally upon the intrusive
military squatters of Central America and the negotiators of London and Washington. As Dictator invited by one party in the combined states, he hat) declared, Greytown to be part of Nicaragua, and he has " annexed " it to his own assumed dominions. This, for the time, equally disposes of Colonel Kinney and the actual Government at Greytown, and raises the question of sovereignty between our protégé the King of Mosquitia and the Dictator who acts in defiance of the American Government. It justifies the apprehension expressed by Lord Clarendon in 1854, of combinations that might call for the intervention of Great Britain and her firm ally France. The expressions which he then used in Parliament were suspected in America to imply an alliance of France and England against the United States ; an interpretation effectually refuted by Lord Clarendon's old letter to General Watson Webb, recently published. Will our Foreign Secretary invite Napoleon, released from the Russian war, to send out armaments with us against Walker ? The very idea exposes our whole Central American policy to ridicule.
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