The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-05 00:00:00

NORTH AMERICAN BOUNDARY.

The annexed articles, from the last papers re-
ceived from New York and Canada, present the
best view of the facts connected with the dispute
between Great Britain and the United States on
that apparently interminable question, the boun-
dary of the northern frontier of the latter, which,
originated at the peace of 1783, was referred
under the treaty of Ghent, to the decision of
Commissioners of both countries, in 1815, and
still seems as distant as ever from settlement.
The first article quoted gives the grounds of com-
plaint by the borderers on the sidelef the United
States ; the second, those of the contiguous
settlers in Lower Canada and New Brunswick ;
and the last, the view of the question taken by
the official Paper at Washington :
NEW YORK", Nov. 25.—The Maine papers give
distressing accounts of the situation of the American
citizens settled on the territory in dispute between
the United Slates and Great Britain, but which
have been considered for a long time to be within
the limits of the United States, occasioned by the
aggression and oppressive proceedings of the colo-
nial authorities of New Brunswick. That Mr.
Baker, the American citizen, whose arrest by those
authorities for refusing to permit the Colonial mail
to pass over his own land, has been published, had
been sentenced to imprisonment for six months in
the Fredericton gaol, arid to a heavy fine. That
these colonial magistrates were in the habit of exe-
cuting precepts within the American territory, carry-
ing off property, and selling the same at auction ;
and had even threatened to come with a posse and
carry to the above gaol all who should oppose their
measures. That a Mr. Dalton, in consequence of
the existing state of things, had sold his farm in the
settlement for less than one-third of its value, and
left it ; and that the American inhabitants were un-
der constant fear, and dared not sleep in their houses.
It is said these facts will be testified to on oath.

We have conversed with gentlemen from Maine
on the above subject, and are informed, that it had
created much excitement in that State; that 'many
expressed their fears that the Government were not
aware of the injuries sustained, and that energetic
measures to protect the American citizens in their
rights had been delayed ; and that strong remon-
strances were in preparation on the subject. Such
arc the statements made. Every one knows how
dillicult it is to judge impartially on injuries felt, and
that the language of complaint is always warm, and
sometimes exaggerated. But if the injuries alluded
to exist in any great degree, no just doubt call be
entertained but that they have or will be promptly
redressed by the Executive of the United States ;
and that the aggressors will find that those who dis-
play the most prudence and magnanimity in pacific
negotiation, can resent unredressed wrongs and
aggressions, when proved to be such, with the
greatest energy. The strong arm of the n4kon is
able to defend the rights and redress the wrongs of
all its citizens. One of our informants suggests the
propriety of having one or two regiments of United
States' troops posted in the neighbourhood of the
territory in question, as the best means to put an
end to aggressions, and to preserve the peace which
all desire to see perpetuated. We make no remark
on the suggestion, confident that the subject is in
the wisest and best hands.
(From the Quebec Gazette, Nov. 12.)

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES BOUN-
DARY LINE.

A public meeting was held at the Court-house on
Monday afternoon last, at which Mr. Vallieres de
St. Real presided. The following resolutions were
moved by Mr. Blanchet, and unanimously passed :-
1. That from the information before this meeting,
as well as that before the general meetings lately
held in the counties of Hertford, Devon, and Corn-
wallis, it appears that, in violation of the peace hap-
pily subsisting between Great Britain and the
United States of America, and of the negotiations
now pending for the admirable adjustment of the
boundary between Lower Canada and the State of
Maine, that State, or persons assuming authority in
its behalf, have unequivocally intimated designs of
forcibly possessing themselves of a large tract of fer-
tile and valuable territory heretofore considered as a
part of the provinces of Lower Canada and New
Brunswick, comprehending what may be designated
as the Great Valley of the river St. John, to the ex-
tent of nearly 15,000 leagues in superfices in the vi-
cinity, and almost on the very margin of the river
St. Lawrence, below this city.
2. That from information laid before this meeting
it is represented that in prosecution of the design
alluded to in the last resolution, of severing from his
Majesty's dominions the Great Valley of the river
St. John (in many parts whereof settlements, still
existing and increasing, were made by Canadians
long previous to the existence of the United States
as an independent Power) surveys have been made,
and townships or other subdivisions apportioned off
under the authority of a Foreign State, whose sub-
jects or citizens have commercial settlements thereon,
which are silently but progressively and rapidly pro-
ceeding towards- the entire occupation of a part of
the territory in question; attempts have been made
to interrupt the intercourse between Canada and
New Brunswick, on the river St. John; and threats
used by foreigners to disturb his Majesty's subjects
or expel them from their possessions held under the
crown and protected by the laws of Great Britain.
3. That measures be forthwith adopted to inves-
tigate the truth of: the allegations detailed in the
foregoing resolutions, in order that, if after careful
and dispassionate inquiry, such designs, attempts,
and threats, or either of them, shall be found really
to exist, means may be resorted to, the most effica-
cious in resisting to the uttermost such encroach-
ments as are equally and most dangerously aimed
against his Majesty's dominions on this continent,
and as destructive to the future welfare and pro-
sperity, as subversive of the political existence of
his Majesty's province of Lower Canada as a por-
tion of the British Empire. That it appears to this
meeting, that in order to avert so great a calamity as
the occupation of the territory in question by fo-
reigners must be productive of to the Britishipro-
vinces generally, and to this province in particular,
an humble petition be prepared and laid at the foot
of the th;one, supplica,itiis our mQvt grACious