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a - I - 1 .C)S l4) • 11 ‘ * f" 11 41 11 0-pb a . 1110 /Pt • l 1 , „, , s✓ t TI DAY EVENING, JASU NUMBER 12,7624. - ' tity of his'Britannic Majesty, in the province of New Brunswick, against two cititens of the United . States, established in British settlements upon the rivers Aroostic and Madawaska. " The proceedings, as described in Mr. Clay's note, are supported by two depositions on oath, whiCh hive been transmitted to the Government of the United States by his Excellency Enoch Lincoln, the Governor of the State of Maine. becoming district, the authoriti hension, " Thy accept tbe ALLIANCE BRITISH AND FOREIGN. LIFE AND FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Chrinca, No. 1, BASTHOLON.SW-LANZ. • THE RECEIPTS for the Renewal FIRE PRE- Mt U MS, due at CHRISTMAS, are aow ready for delivery. Pica AsSIJIMICE/ continue to be accepted on the reduced Scale of Pretniutua. Assuasnats off Lira are entertained on equitable and liberal Terms. 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The Essence and Pills at Ifs. 9d. each,; the Cerate apd Ss. 9d. 2 =re also sold at QS, Coca . be:, and may . be bad or every Vender io the United • Xintica• Kr .1110:13,11dipe his ibe name of IL leiresteo printed on the Scan** . * • . * • • • • ik LILA - C.4/4 PAPERS. —recto-- :mitred - New Mork Papers, .which contain veriatidoesstionte laid motile table of Congress at the • time therokideet s tiSiestoge was delivered. Ercm them ticket the follisaing ZAStRUN BOUNDARY. LILTTZA ?taws .24 no - 01-alt TO SIR. VAIN:MAW. " Washing on, Nov. 1?. " SI 11--In a note which I had the honour to address to you on the 19th of September last, 1 informed you that I would transmit a copy of yours of the 17th, in answer to mine of the 14th of the some month, to his Excellency Eitiosh Lncolto Governor of Maine, fo tan from him soclltneoithation chi - tlie Object to - cobil:h tbacco:respondence related as he might communicate. 1 Row transmit to you an extract from a letter of Governor Lincoln, under date of the 2d inst. - together with copies of two affidavits, to which he tefers. From one of those affidarrits (that of William Dalton), it would appear that he had resided doting three years on the Arnostic river, thirty miles within the line of the American side; that the constables and officers of the province of New Brunswick had been in the -habit, ender the pretence of collecting dbts, of coming to the 'ailment where he lived with precepts, and taking and carrying away every species of roperty they could find; that they generally culled it to the parish of Kvnt or Fredei action, and there sold It at auction; that Si a particular instance, of which the circumstances are detailed in the affidavit, the acting British officer de clared that he did not care whether he was within or sithout his jurisdiction, for that a higher officer woad bear him out in anything he did; that he even'em ployed a menace of resorting to physical force, using at the same time opprobrious language; that the witness, in consequence of she distutbances created in the set tlement or British officers. sold his possessions at agreat socrsfize in their value, and removed to another part of the State of Maine; and that the inhabitants of the Aroostic settlement have been unwilling and afraid to sleep in their own houses. and have spent the night on the banks of the river, and is the woods, and kept watch eight and day, as is customary in Judean warfare. • " Tlie affidavit of the other witness (Jonathan Wil son) states, that at Woodstock, in the province of New Brunswick, he learnt that Mr. Baker bad been arrested by the British authorities, with the agency of forty•five men, sent up in barges, armed t that he was taken from his.bed in the flight; that the charge against him was for refusing and objecting to permit the British mail to pass over his land ; that he was confined in a gaol which is known to the witness to be extremely loath some, filthy, and dangerous to health; that be has been tried, and sentenced to six months imprisonment, and to the payment of 150 f. that he lived on the Madawaska within the American line, and that the witness bad learned from his son, who had recently been on the Aroostic, that the aeolers there complained bitterly of the oppression of the officers and subjects of the British ptovance,; that their property was taken forcibly from them, and carried off, to the last cow. " Such is tl.e case made out. by this testimony. I shall abstain at this time from pattictilar comments upon it. The proceedings which it discloses being iro compatible with the rights of the United states, at vit• fiance with that s loabeatancei and moderation which It Des been understood between us were to be mutually, observed, and echibiting the exercise of rigorous ago' • of authority within the disputed territot y, Which coul4 only be justified by consitieringit as constituting an in contestable part of the Blitish dominions. I have to to . que-t such explauations as the occasion calls for. is In the mean time, I avail myself of the opportunity totender to you assurances of my high consideration. " H. CLAY." (Uwe Mew at liege the statements referred In the letter of iisearrn •VADOßAW TO Kg. CLAT. " Wallbispeo, Nov 211. I slip undersigned, his Britannic' Majesoy's Envoy' illtbauodieary and MOisser Pionipotentiory, has the illstOor to acknowledge the reettipt of a Dote from the Secretary of &ate of the Unitad States, relative to the proceedings of the magistrates, acting under the autho " The affidavit of William Dalton, residing upon the river Aroostic, relates to legal process having heen instituted against him by magistrates acting under Bri• fish authority, for the recovery of debts, or for a misdemeanor. The affidavit ofJonathan Wilson relates to the arrest at Woodstock, upon the Madawaska river, within 65 miles of Rederickton, and of Mr. Baker, for having interrupted the passage of the mail from New Brunswick to Canada. "The rivers Aroostic and Madawaska are to be found on a reference to a map made by the British Commis• sinners of boundary, under the sth article of the treaty of Ghent, in that portion of.the territory of New Bruns wickenclosed between two lines of boundary, laid down, the one by the British Commissioners, which runs by M ars- hill„ ample Ap....thisairiato '• ' sionera,ivifiels ruos at the diabace of about one handred and forty-four miles from Mars-hill . to the north of it. " Whatever may have induced the Commissioners, on both sides, to trace the lines above mentioned, as accord. ing with the true intent of the boundary Aid down in the Treaty of 1783, and subsequently io that of Ghent, the Uovernments of Great Britain and. of the United States have not yet been able to reconcile the different reports of their Commissioners, and the territory in . 'which the proceedings have occurred lately, and which form the *object of Mr. Clay's note, is still in dispute. The sovereignty and jurisdiction over the territory keit consequently remained with Great lit itain, having been in the occupation and pomession of the Crown pre viously to the conclusion .01 the Treat) of 1783. " The undefinerkor irsr unsettled claim of the United States to a ,pottiop of t territory' cannot furnish any pretext for an interference with, or an interruption of, the'exercise of the' jurisdiction within that territory, by magistrates, acting under Britsh authority, on* ;inn at the citizens of the United States, who may chomsetp reside in shose ancient settlements. The undessigwid, therefore, is convinced that Mr. Clay will agree off+ him that there cannot be any grounds for complaint of an undue and illegal exercise of jurisdiction, whatever motive there may bt. for remonstrance against the seve rity with which the laws may have been executed. a With regard to one of the affidavits transmitted by the Governor of Maine, that of Jonathan Wilson,. it appeits that he undertakes to relate the circumstances attending the arrest of Bakee,ost the Madawaska, from what he had been. told by Joshua Harvey, formerly of Bangor, in the Stain of Maipe. The undersigned tidos this iirportunity of communicating to the Secre.' tary of State some circumstances attending that trans.- action, with which he has been. made acquainted by his Majesty's Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. In a let er which the undersigned received on the 7th of Qctotaer last from his Excellency, dated the 11th el -ptember, he was informed that an alien of the name 01 Baker, residing in a British settlement on the Mada waska, had, on the 13th of July last, interrupted the passage of the mail from New Brunswick to Canada, by the long established road through that settlement. Sir Howard Douglas transmitted to him, at the same Lime, copies of depositions taken on oath respecting the conduct of Baker ; and, feeling that it was his duty, as Lieutenant Governor, not to abandon any eight of prac tical sovereignty which had been esercised in the dis puted territory, which had been held, occupied, and located a; &laid] settlements, for any period within the last century, or even later, he considered that the report which had been made to him 'of the conduct of Baker which was fit master for the cognizance of the law officers of the CI own, and his Excellency accordingly directed the Attorney General to take such measurer as he might deem necessary to enforce the municipal laws of the province, and to repress apd, to punish the dis• orders which had been committed., 41 , The undersigned has not received from Sir Howard Douglas any report jet, of the.proceedings against Baker, subsequently to his arrest. He has the honour to submit to the consideration of the Secretary of State the accompanying docunienti, name; y-- " ' No. I. A report made to the Lieutenant Governor by Mr. Morehouse, a Magistrate in the neighbourhood of Madawaska. " ' 2. The depositiat of Peter Sileste, relative to the stopping of the mail. " S. The deposition of William Perris, relative to the flag of the United States having been hoisted by Baker. _ _ " ' 4. and 5. The depositions of Abraham 'Chamber land and Peter Mar kee, relative to a paper circulated in a settlement upon the Madawaska, for signatures amongst the inhabitants, by which they were to bind themselves to resist the Hi itish authority. " •6. The opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor Ge neral of the Province.' •• The Secretary of State will observe in the enclosed depositions, that Baker and otheri asserted, that in the measures which they took they would be supported by the Government of the United States. It is hardly ne cessary for the undersigned to repeat the assurances which he has received from the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, t h at his Excellency is convinced that the Government ot the United States was not, in any shape, awase of the intentions of Baker and his associates. •• It is evident from the enclosed documents, that the offensive conduct of Baker was not confined to stopping the mail, but that he had hoisted the flag of the United Stares, in defiance ot British claims, and had sought to engage a party in an ancient British settlement to trans fer the possession to the United Stares. " The undersigned has already communicated to the Secretary of Stare sufficient proofs of the decided reso lution of his Majesty's Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick to maintain the disputed territory in the same state in which his Excellency received it, after the conclusion of the treaty of Ghent; and the undersigned is convinced that a mutual spirit of forbearance ani• mates the general Government of the United States. It is painful to reflect upon the collisions of authority to which both countries are so repeatedly exposed by the, long delay which has taken p lace in finall y ad j usting, tbe - lise of boundary on the north east frontier of the.. United States. In the present state of uncertainty, the limits of the jurisdiction of each Government are pis apprehended and misunderstood by the class of persons ~---- racier. of she existing PAIIII‘GSIT. - CLAY, JAVAN Ube RANDOLPH, RUSH, BA 111 so UR, cam Imuftis _ rev iv,yr. To select from an equal and connected nsaes:of so lunch meiit and interest, would be a very difficult and useless task. To hum an ac..quate idea of she siosk, use can only pregribe_perusal. With regard to WASHINGTON; we think the Anther has do.ie wrong in omitting all allusion, .tiovreiv4r eight, to the greatest blemish which perhaps; 'per stained his character : having been himself t. e key ;o the great padlock of national liberty, after having Flaked so much and suffered so much in its battles, at length succ,eding in rendering America the asylum of ,the oppressed, himself the scourge of the oppressor, au List all his ardour in the cause of freedom, did he /told hundreds of his fellow men in a state of servile end most abject bondage I—he was a slave holder. We would particularly direct the notice of our Readers, in the firmer part of the toleme. to the expose of the coalition, between CLAY and ADAK% The empty vanity and syMptoms of real designs, evinced in the message of the latter to the Russian Ca binet on the affairs of the Mexican States, are also well delineated. " In private life he seems anxious to hide his pas sions under the mast of republican carelessness, and a iertain nonchalance. His countenance betrays a cold ambitious mind, his dark eye exhibits the heartless diplomatist." • " ADANA is reputed by his party silt the majority of the people, to possess a great mind: this is far from the case." We must conclude our views of this interesting work in another number. The akin of London. Two Vols. post Bvo. Colbura. The term " Club," in its.genuine and uncorrupted sense, conveys an idea of every thing that is socal, witty, and engaging in English manners ; the sub• jest, therefore, is one from which much entertainment might have been anticipated, nor have we been dip. appointed in the expectations- we had formed front the title of the work before no s if is decidedly t h e best of the sort that the present season lus pieduced.—. The anecdotes in the first volume, many of which have already appeared in the Neer Monthly Magaziae, are full of pleasantry. The second - volume treats of the origin, customs, and the most celebrated members of various Clubs; annoirg these the Beef Steak Club cloinits particular notice, not only on account of its antiquity, but for the many eminent names that have graced -its list of members. Let- not this venerable instststiotv be profaned, observes the author, by imaginittg a_ collet% tion of greasy citizen; devoariag beef steaks, whom common voracity draws together and common witty will disperse. op that ckespicabiet-tufwe Ae,flies of the shambles would be a Bed Steals lts real excel- • • • . '• - • • . •1!• ~-..y ,•`%. . 1 ! -,'"•,,,, :.• . • '''' r 'll t .' • .-. „4 • . -- • • .. • • v peal i . . • , fftri( ' 17 1°16°1"11). ......:.':... ni x ell •• f ...jii. . ,i 1 1 -. 011,1 .--*ifa1..4"•.,---- ._ .. • ...—.—.r. .., r• 4 . UNWARY 8, 1828. [PRICE. SRVIIIKPRIIIeaIe , , - • ........—..--......—., .• - g.from time to time settler` in the disputed be no interruptions tech as these, Which are Oft i and too much vigil ance cano b t b e exer ted by occurrence here; and the sooner its greater lit 3 , ioritice on b o t h s id es to remove t h at m i sa p pre . transportation are brought i n t o s t ea dy plalAte.. of , and control all miscond uct ar i s i ng oast Vt of it, I shall probably remain in the (, lofted Atoit . e4 , • ie under s igned requests t h at M r . Cl ay w ill time twelvemonth, and 4' jou tbibß;;eati.' r . be assurance of his highest con s id era ti o n, inquiries likely to . be of tise to yak f Itif Oak . I • " CHARLES It. VAUGHAN." errand mrtiest Aireicea t A letter to, Om tare of - 2 ' Rathbone add lhothent, Liveipnol, will be' suestif EMIGRATION. me.—l remain, dear Sir, mein sinceatly, your o _at servant, ?R ADDRILSUD BY CAPTAIN BASIL HALL, ILN. TO BAStL AL VIZ NIGHT HaN. R. WILM'T smarm. t • KB. This letter was not addressed to Mr. W il t QMI Albany, &ate of New York, Sept. in, 1827. Berton as Under Secretary of State Ibe the Colonies, IRA R Silt—About two months ago, when tra. but m a private individual. , n Upper Canada, I went out of my way to visit - " ~:.- . , rt . ement at Peterborough , where the emigrants of LITERATURE , AND THE ARTS. „ pi . : placed. I went with Mr. George Boohoo and 114. United States of No r th A mer i ca as th ey mit t, ; . ... s , - . 1 ironer, of Coburg, and was accompanied by Mrs. hich I mention merely to shew you that in the op. x. 242. Simpkin and Mershall. 113211.-. , ' • ; . f roads, things have improved since. 18.25. Of' ll general subjects (not domestic), the character, believe, no I t ady Could have gone over the manners, and politics of the Americans possess superior • I mind. Mr. M.Donell received us at the vat- i nterest; and this we suppose on account of their being I I; Rich we reached by crossing the Rice Lake, and invested with that attractive quality—novelty. The . i up the Otanabte River some seien or eight public are ever eager to devour any work offered to I devoted three days to an examination of the .satisfy their rapacious mania on this point; and Mach r 1. Rt.! and ilirs* 4 4 manage ° 44 d not in that 4ig air • . *waist, s best svendosiosaleitstinswelsit.llo- -A' lore of it ihria i "very small part, I thinkl !trio: fort , .w e slum not , lake too Rielly ciiiimodso, I enough, • I*. ki r allie a fair concept ion of di e conversant . alone with their own enlightened- risible, • ... • and as the result is in 'the highest degree sitis-• eney w h et they know must be Dev i to every body else, 1 take tholiberty of mentioning it to you. delay the attention of our readers, by informing then: i ,ed a,good many of the different emigrants on that Amelica• is really a very important nation, and ;Red grounds, andlook care to con* ttpoarhem that accounts of it . are worthy their attention; but. . i tedly, but not to alarm them by stiddeninters having assured them•that the workliefore us is worthy, es, or,to give them reason to fancy 3 had More io point of talent and information of the topic-to whecleir - - ordinary degree of interest in their concernl.—, it relate:, we shall leave them to guess that it is also :umstances ot these people were different; some & worthy o f their patronage and 'perusal. ; - -) wed snore land than others, or . had cultivatie WS ltsay safely Eats that it newer has before beep .1 matter success; . owing . lo their having more or our luik to meet with so - concise, so plain, and at she • rt)wn up children, or in consequence of their... same time so luminous 'a viewoof she internal polity, *en a longer De or a shorter • ried; wi their . l3 ,„"t"l: use ICA NAM e of her constitution, and, in fine , the air- .. , no exaggeration to say of these emigrates..tem , [rtes and defects of the United Bastes, lbw instilutions, Sean in a state of prosperity. They mete tint- and their inhabitants, as we haveleead - in: this little ~ fr their present state, though a very laborious stork; A volume which more goofy deseevesoivelsigh tarnly ; and they looked forward with the toast' commendation of affording ".nsiltair in perm" weber , * - ) ' ory kind of hope to what was before them. ' I' seldom seen; nor hale sse evet•met with nil acentric au:factory, because it was reasonable, and not Of•the political character of the United States, which, though by no mean, favourable to cher:menses ot. re. ;ant. And I should say, judging from a pretty e experience we have bad in, travelling through publecanism, gives so unbiassed, so unprejudiced a view anuses, that they are all in as fair a way of. doing p c the seal bl ess i ngs of that folio of co s monsoon. .It is any sett!ers we have seen elsewhere, and in a well caloulatedeo divest tfie.bigot °ibis petty and ilfi- . • in time they cannot fail to be is most sespettable p eta l j edi f onsys .• tances. ....•. - • • • , . " lee object proposed in the- foiled/lug pages has is extremely curious, and I think important, is been to eahahit to the eyes of the woad ~ten„ e nte of . , -of cresepeople being not only dull sensible of American affairs, without prejadice,_aisterittioist party oars which hive been granted them, but their- l o th : , 4 willing to acknoivledge this, and apparent!) "To show the state of society in general, and the re- to eapresi their gratitude to his Majesty's. Go- Incise bearings of the different classes to each other, and At; and ill of them are must desirous of having thereby to afford a clear. view of what the United S ittes n that` they, have had all they wished, or could now really are, is the second object attempted." • a render, them comfortable in the first instance, 44 Tissept conic social intercourse and prevailing habits i• ideates their mare independent effuses after- In such a manner as to enable the future mniorautsio follow the presc ibed track, and settle advantageously, , • r material testate here, that although this account is the third object contemplated." I belfry!; is substance, with others which-you After detailing. the. vast • progress orhieh the •Uoited ore marred horn Sir Peregrine Ma*tlanst last State. have made in arts, prosperity, and wealth, during consider the visit 1 nave paid as being more to- their fifty years' existence, the Authr.r sums up his ap- /'. ',pose, inasmuch as the allowance of 1 intone and patent contrast between England and America by es- ,sistance from Government had not then ceased; mom; us that— • 1 os 1 a ent there all such adveloitious aid had ---,To crown the whole, the national .debt amounts to rpped, and the emigrants had been working for no mote than 74,000,000 dollars, and is rapidly de- lalf a'year entirely tree. Lithe interval, as I was creasing. The Clergy is without tithes; and peace and Mr. Stewart, of Duoro, and others, these had tranquirlity prevail without a secret police and without . . marry instances, considerable hardship, and in an Amy :* .. -1 _ • . in severe pressure from actual want. I made The eloquent tribute to the tranrcendant qualitimeif 1 . WASHINGTON, and therefore, of visiting sonic of these people, and.ASHINGTON ' and the display of " the c a llous and ambitious mind" of old ADAMS, his successor, is lib ,. ' 'ern to the full as Cheer I ul and uncomplaining,anct wise well, though too br ie fly- po ur t ra y e d. Th ee *. , !•pects as grateful as the others—freely acknosv. . that their distre,s.aruse from other circumstances .-",-...•, . k . ...;..;.,.,. 1 ,..... n ..,.. -r•. ... T......_ ' • A LITTEI MY D P.A yelling in the settler 1825 are Mr. Falk( Hall, whl matter of when, I bell same grow lege, whi rowing ui leagues. tossee nested *smug whole; and • factory, 1 ► I •isitet their clean unexpectr rogatories, than an or , The cilvoi, had cleared it with gm fewer gr ii t es having But it is they 0e44 tenteti uF one, cent. satistactor: call it sum estraTagr extensive well as al very sboi (it cumstai V‘hdt the fact of the favodes bring !tf vernment it known want, to and to Wards. It is ea agrees, I must Wave Tear, I.cl jour pure other ;*b but whet been stet nearly h; told by ; been, in some cases a po int, fo - und the; la all re. ledging that their dist re's. a: use from other circumstances than any want of attention or breach of faith on the part of the Government, fur whose exertions they all said they felt the sincerest thankfulness. Upon the whole, my impression was, that the expe riment had completely succeeded; if the object was to render a mass of destitute and miserable people infe pendent and useful, instead of being bus (bens to the country. Of their loyalty there is not a :pack of doubt ; and 1 confeis I never saw any set of persons upon whom, in the event of a brush, I should mote thoroughly rely. The moral and political effect, also, of this sue. cessful measure, has extended, 1 conceive, far beyond the mere limits of the Peterborough settlement; and the advantages which have arisen frbm it have been great. It has spread over all that country a sentiment every way creditable to England; and this feeling is not confined to the northera side of the boundary Itt.e. The whole business seems to have been managed well; and the result is equally creditable to the people who have been the object of the charity, to those who car ried its very troublesome details into execution, and (if be not impudent in me to judge of such matters) to those who suggested.the trial. The liberal style, too, both of the conception and the performance, has pro. xtuced their national effect in this quarter of the world ; and I am well satisfied that immense public benefits have actrued from thls•measute alone, some of which, perhaps, you did-not think of, and which, indeed, I did not dream of till they were brought to my notice on the spot. When I had last the pleasure of seeing you, you called my attention to the Welland Canal, and of course 1 made a point of investigating that subject with attention. At the request of same gentlemen in Upper Canada. I was induced to allow my opinions on the subject to be made public ; and if you have any curiosity on the mat ter, you will see them in the printed letter, which was recopied into an American paper, from whence I have cut it out for you. I have added a notice respecting the completion of the southern part of this undertaking. which I conceive it to be of the greatest consequence should be completed as soon as possible. The Oswego Canal,which connects Lake Ontario with the Hudson, via Syracuse and the eastern branch of the Erie Canal, will be completed this year. It is executed. as I understand, With more care than the other. which, by the way, meets with frequent accidents. These breaks in the banks, however, are repaired with great celerity ; the advantage is taken of such opportunities to pt the whole work UMW the spot where the accident occurs in a complete state of oiller. Very large sums are annually expended ia this way ; and that which at first was done not in the best style, will. eventually be made as it • might, perhaps. to bate WM at first. The great anxiety which was felt to via; at all hazards, induced the i proprietors to crampbatitit in haste. The Welland Canal, however, is so well executed, that I imagirie there will . . - •, . ~ rAorra