The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 18-10.

eriod ; but if the proportion employed abroad was
smaller than usual, he believed it would be impossible
to carry that into effect. Another reason was that
when the Heese agreed to that, the Commander in
Chief proposed a plan by which the system of relief
might be established, and which, with the approbation
of the Government, was now being carried into effect.
He believed it to be a system as necessary as it was just.
The Hon. Gentleman had also touched on one question
which he (Lord John Russell) did not wish to enter
into further than was necessary to correct an error into
which he (Mr. Hume) had fallen—that the whole diffi-
culty with regard to the Boundary question arose from
the delay of his Noble Friend at the head of the Go.
vernment to make a reply to the Government of the
United States. The state of the question was this :
his Noble Friend, in the course of last year, transmitted
a project of a convention for the purpose of
settling the question satisfactorily to the American Go-
vernment, and after a lapse of a considerable period
the American Government sent back a counter pro-
ject. At the time this proposition of theirs reached
this country, there arrived also the gentlemen who had
been ordered to make a survey of those parts of the
country in which the disputed boundary lay. These
gentlemen were now employed in making a report of
the whole survey, and as soon as the Government re-
ceived that, they would consider the counter propo-
sition of the American Government. This showed it
was not the want of attention to the subject, or of
making an answer to the American Government, that
was the cause of the delay. Another question was that
of incursions made by the citizens of the State of Maine
upon part of the territory which he thought justly be-
longed to this country, and which was an infraction of
the treaty between the Government of New Brunswick
and that of the United States ; it had led to some
correspondence, which had appeared, and which also
led to the necessity of protecting the road from New
Brunswick to Canada. That was an entirely different
question, but it was necessary undoubtedly to provide,
not against the projects of the general Government or
President of the United States, because every thing
they proposed had been dictated by the most friendly
spirit towards this country, but against the incursions
of thieves and disorderly gangs of persons who na-
turally roamed about a frontier that did not now
belong to any one ; but he hoped the measures
that were taken on the subject would to such
an understanding that we should not have rea-
son again to complain of them. He would not go
into the general statements which his Right Hon.
Friend the Secretary at War would presently make,
who would doubtless show sufficient grounds for ob-
taining from the House the means necessary for pro-
viding for the necessities of the country, and that the
vote he asked for would be sufficient for that purpose,
while at the same time it would afford every means of
resisting aggression from whatever quarter it might
come, and which, if furnished, would not be applied to
any purpose but that of carrying into effect and secur-
ing the efficiency of the British army.
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