Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Letters from the Foreign Office on matters...

Correspondence, Original-Secretary of State: Letters from the Foreign Office on matters related to the Bahamas. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

• territorial jurisdiction of Spain on the coast of Cuba and adjacent Cays,
• alleged use of port of Nassau by Cuban insurgents,
• Nassau mail bag opened by Spanish authorities in Havana,
• attempt to prevent filibusters from using British possessions for meeting,
• passport regulations in Cuba,
• capture of British vessel Galvanic by Cuban authorities,
• decree by Captain General of Havana of 24 March affecting vessels captured in Spanish waters or on the high seas with war contraband on board,
• capture of American brig Mary Lowell by a Spanish warship within British jurisdiction,
• alleged irregularities in Nassau in connection with Spanish steamer Comanditario,
• proceedings of Spanish vessels in the West Indies and the Bahamas,
• Commodore Phillimore's mission to Havana concerning the Spanish authorities proceedings in the West Indies,
• alleged use of British vessel Salvador by Cuban insurgents,
• information given to the Jamaican government regarding the passport system in Cuba and crews of foreign vessels trading with that island,
• Don Bernardo Menandez y Alonso's appointment as Spanish Consul at Nassau,
• question of the power of governors of British colonies in cases similar to that of the Salvador,
• question of whether drilling by Cubans in their own houses in the Bahamas could be interfered with under the Foreign Enlistment Act,
• C William's application for compensation for alleged damages sustained from the trespass of men who landed at Barry Islands from a Spanish warship,
• seizure of the Salvador in Nassau,
• instructions to certain West Indian governors regarding Cuban insurgents,
• J T Thompson's application for compensation for losses due to the capture of his sloop the Jeff Davis by the Spanish authorities off the coast of Cuba,
• appointment of Thomas Williams as North German Consul at Nassau,
• abrogation of the decree of 24 March,
• communication between the British Consul General at Havana and the Captain General of Cuba,
• escape of the Salvador from Nassau harbour,
• release of people implicated in the mutiny on board the Comanditario and brought to Nassau on the Cherub,
• proceedings of Cuban insurgents in the Bahamas and Canada,
• suggestion that the British government had the same duties to perform towards the Haitian Republic as towards the Spanish government regarding insurgents at Cuba and Haiti,
• appointment of Darius Joseph as Haitian Commercial Agent at Inagua,
• propriety of passing a law prohibiting the exportation of arms from the Bahamas,
• actions of Cuban and Dominican insurgents,
• seizure of the Cuban vessel Lilian,
• appointment of Alexis W Harriott as Consular Agent for the United States at Salt Cay.

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