The National Register.
London, England, 1815-01-22 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

M ENO st ; DU US FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.

St \D'V, .14111(1411Y '2l, 18157

Third Sunday alter Epiphany
Clluttett rnvic •• • morning I Cvioll3-16Niah Iv. Matt. xxi.
Evt ning Lessons—lsaiah Ivi. 1 Cor. v.
23. MONDAV.—Hilary Term begins.—Right Honourable W. Pitt
died, Igo 45.

14. TURIIDAY.—Stm times a,: 41:n. after 7—sets at 19m. after •1.
25. W EADAY.—Conversion of St. Paul—Fnll Moon at 10 in
die morning.

26. TN uRsDAY.—Day-break at 38m. after 5.
TT. Fat DAY.—llnke (Angnstits Frederic) born 1773
28. SATURDAY —Twilight ends at 25m. after 6.—Sun rises at 33m.
after 7, sets at tfsm. after 4.

JAN. 22.

land, but they will not renew without an equivalent the pri-
vilege of taking and Coring fish on their shores.
On the subject of boundaries, they had on .the 19th Aug.
proposed a revision of the line " west of Lake Superior and
Moro to the Mississivi." They now proposed " the north •
western boundary from the Lake of the ‘Vocds to the Mis-
sissippi, the arrangement concluded in the unratified treaty
of 1803. This departure from the proposition of Oie I,9th
of August, was rendered necessary by the fact. that a line
from Lake Superior or from the Lake of the Woods, due
West, should not strike the Mississippi. The new line from
the Lake of the Woods tattle: Mississippi, will take a course
almost due South from the Lake.

The British Commissioners further stated, that in regard
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to other boundaries, they were willing to treat on the uti
possiddis, subject to such modifications as mutoal convenience
might be found to require.

The American Commissioners, in reply to this note, de-
cline treating upon the basis of u/i possi leas. or upon any
other principle involving a cession of any part of the territory
of the United States; and strangely renew the request for
the projet of a treaty, though they had in the note to which
they now reply received such a projet.

The British Commissioners, in their note of the 51st Oc-
tober, declare, that they have already, in their note of the g bt,
comm,inicated all the points upon which they are instructed
to insist, and require from the American Commissioners.
that pursuant to their engagement they will deliver a contra-
projet. Here the dispatches end, and it is not stated whether
any contre.project was delivered, though we suppose it was.
In the letter of the American Commissioners, dated the
25th of October, to their Government, they assert that
" their request for the exchange of a projet of a treaty had
been eluded," though they had been in possession of such a
projet four days betre. They no reason to retract the
opinion they expressed on the 19th of August, " that no
hopes of peace were likely to result from the negociation.",
This opinion is founded upon the circumstance of having de-
manded an augmentation of territory. a demand advanced im-
mediately after accounts bad been received of our having
taken possession of all the territory east of the Penobscot.

The American Commissioners strangely suppose, that cur
object was to delay the negociation until a general arrange-
ment of European affairs should be accomplished at the Con-
gress ; though it could not but have been obvious to theta
that delay would have been more injurious to us at the Con-
gress than beneficial. They allude to a Memorial to tinc
Congress, presented by Talleyrand, in which it is declared,
that France having returned to the boundat its of 1702, can
recognize none of tabs aggrandisements of the other great
Powers of Europq since that period, though :.,I,lc dues not in-