Letters from the Foreign Office on matters related to Trinidad. Subjects covered...

Letters from the Foreign Office on matters related to Trinidad. Subjects covered are as follows:

• Shipment of arms to Columbia,
• Venezuelan thirty percent surtax,
• compensation claims against Venezuela,
• case of Maria Teresa,
• British Consulate at Guiria,
• export of arms to Venezuela,
• Venezuelan actions on Patos Island,
• movements of the Liberator,
• nationality of the steamship Ban Righ (Bolivar),
• Venezuelan differential duties negotiations,
• guardhouse of Patos Island,
• use of Port of Spain harbour by Venezuelan warships,
• issue of ships passports,
• proposal to get Spanish labourers from the Canary Islands,
• hoisting of flag on Patos Island,
• seizure of the Pastor,
• revolution in Venezuela,
• admission to and residence of foreigners in Venezuela,
• destruction of the British vessel In Time by the Venezuelan gunboat Crespo,
• blockade of the Orinoco,
• conduct of Venezuelan Consul Señor Fiqueredo,
• appointment of J S Lyon as Foreign Agent in Trinidad by the Venezuelan revolutionary leader,
• appointment of Pedro Ezequiel Rojas as Agent General of the Revolution by M A Matos,
• Vice-consulate at Guiria,
• charges against the Venezuelan Consul,
• closing of British ports to Venezuelan cruisers,
• affairs in Venezuela,
• blockade of Carupano,
• complaints of the British government against the Venezuelan government,
• Venezuelan blockade,
• proposed purchase of Mangles (Corn) Islands from Nicaragua,
• Columbia's claim to Mangles Islands,
• relations with Venezuela,
• leasing of Patos Island.

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