The Sun.
London, England, 1804-08-10 00:00:00

LOUISIANA.

(From an Account of Louisiana, printed in America.)
" No general Map of she PrOvince of Louisiana,
sufficiently corred to be depended upon, has been
published, nor has any been yet promised from a
private source.—The precise boundaries of Louisi.
ana,, westwardly of the Mississippi, though very
extensive, are at present involved in some obscuri.
ty. Data are equally wanting to assign with pre,
cision its northern extent. From the source of the
Mississippi, it is bounded easterly by the middle of
the channel of that river to the thirty. first degree
of latitude : thence, it is asserted upon. very strung
grourds that according to its limits, when former.
ly possessed by France, it stretches to the East, as
far, at least. as the river Perdigo, which. runs into
the bay of Mexico Eastward of the rivet Mobille.
" It may be consistent with the view of these
nines ro remark, that Louisiana,, including the Mo.
bille Settlements, was discoveted and peopled by the
French, whose Monarchs made several grants of its
trade, in particular to Mr. CROSAT t 01712, and
tome years afterwards, with his acquiescence, to
the weliltnDwn Company projetied by Mr. LAW.
• This Company was relinquished in the year 1731.
By a secret Convention on the 3d November 1762,
the French Government ceded so much of the Pro.
vince as lies beyond the Mississippi, as well as the
Island of New Orleans, to Spain ; and by the Treaty
of Peace which followed in 1763, the whole Terri..
tory of France anti Spain Eastward of the middle of
the Mississippi to the iberville, thence through,the
middle of that River, and the Lakes Marepas and
Ponchartrain to the sea, was ceded to Great Britain.
Spain having conquered the Floridas from Great
Britain during.,oor Revolutionary War,' they were
contirmeti.to her by the Treaty of Peace of 1783.-L-
By the Treaty of St. Ildefonso, of the Ist of °do.
her tBoor His Catholic Majesty promises and en-
gages on his part to cede hack to the French Re-
public, six months after the full and entire
, execution of the conditions and stipulations
toereio contained relative to the Duke of PAR-
MA, " the Colony or Province of Louisiana,
with the same extent that it aCtually had in the
hands of Spain, that it had when France possessed it,
and such as it ought to be after the Treaties subse-
tinently entered into between Spain and other
States." This Treaty was confirmed and enforced
by that of Madrid, of the 2155 March, 18ot. From,
France it passed to us by the Treaty of the
3oth of April last, with a reference to the above
clause, as descriptive of the limits ceded."

On Sunday morning, as a party of the rith Re-
giment of Dragoons was bathing at Hastings, near
the rocks, to the Eastward of the town, at low
water, the sea being considerably agitated, three of
she men got beyond their depth, and were not per.
ceived tfr some time. As soon as their danger was
obsetved, a boat was sent from the shore, but he.
fore its arrival, one of the Men sunk, and has not
yet been found ; another, by the assistance of his
companions, was brought out of the water, insen.
sible, and in .an alarming slate ; the third' was,
brought on shore by the boar, senseless, animation
being apparently quite suspended. Fortunately, Mr.
Durrotr, Surgeon, of HaStings, was on the beach
at, the time, and ran down to the boats in the water,
to render his assistance. The two men were imme.
diately conveyed to a house near the plate, and by
Mr. Dorm's's perseverance in the method rectm.
nended by the Humane Society, they were both re-
stored to life. This Gentleman received a medal
from, the Humane S':ciety last year, for the recovery
of a boy in a similar state, and the apparatus si,tce
sent down to him by the Humane, Society, was of
great service on the present occasion.'
.7noter Tierney, Seaman, of the Dreadvught, who
was tried and convined at th'e Exeter Assizes, for
attempting to seduce another 'seaman from his alle-
giance, has,been respired on a. point of law, which
is reserved for the opinion of the twelve judges.