CASTILLO y LANZAS, Joaquín María (cas-teel'-yo e lahn'-thas), Mexican diplomatist, born in Jalapa, 11 November, 1801; died 11 July, 1878 in Mexico City. He received his education in English Colleges, the University of Glasgow, and the Seminary of Vergara, Spain, returning to Mexico in 1822.

He had already filled several public offices when President Gomez Pedraza appointed him his private secretary in 1888, and at once sent him to the United States as the representative of Mexico. After remaining in Washington as chargé d'affaires until 1887, he was elected to congress in 1845, and in the following year was appointed secretary of state under Paredes's administration, being also Mexican minister to England from 1853 till 1858.

He represented the state of Mexico in the Federal congress in 1857; then joined General Tornel as plenipotentiary to negotiate a treaty of neutrality with the United States minister, Alfred Conkling, on the Tehuantepec Canal, and several years afterward (1866) negotiated a treaty of commerce and navigation with the government of Great Britain.

Castillo y Lanzas filled many other important offices in Mexico, belonged to the Spanish academy and several Mexican and British learned societies, was the editor of the first newspaper that was published in Vera Cruz after the independence of 1825, and left a volume of poems, "Ocios Juveniles" (Philadelphia, 1835), and a work entitled "Elementos de Geografia."

CASTILLO g LANZAS, ,loaquin M. (cas-teel'-yo e lahn'-thas), Mexican diplomatist, born in Jalapa, 11 November, 1801: died 11 July, 1878. He received his education in English Colleges, the University of Glasgow, and the Seminary of Vergara, Spain, returning to Mexico in 1822. He had already filled several public offices when President Gomez Pedraza appointed him his private secretary in 1888, and at once sent him to the United States as the representative of Mexico. After remaining in Washington as charg6 d'affaires until 1887, he was elected to congress in 1845, and in the following year was appointed secretary of state under Paredes's administration, being also Mexican minister to England from 1853 till 1858. He represented the state of Mexico in the Federal congress in 1857; then joined General Tornel as plenipotentiary to negotiate a treaty of neutrality with the United States minister, Alfred Conkling, on the'Tehu-antepec canal, and several years afterward (1866) negotiated a treaty of commerce and navigation with the government of Great Britain. Castillo y Lanzas filled many other important offices in Mexico, belonged to the Spanish academy and several Mexican and British learned societies, was the editor of the first newspaper that was published in Vera Cruz after the independence of 1825, and left a volume of poems, "Oeios Juveniles" (Philadelphia, 1835), and a work entitled " Elementos de Geografie."

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