The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-26 00:00:00

MR. ROBERT PALMER.

We lately gave a sketch of the theatrical merits
of this . Performer, upon a report of his death;
but though the report was premature, his indis-
position was of so severe
.a kind as every day to
threaten his dissolution. Yesterday the expected
event took place, and be died in the sixty-third
year of his age, at his house in Belgrave Place,
Pimlico. lie was the father of the Stage, so far
as regards those who still pursue the theatrical
pro,fession, and the last of the school of GARRICX,
except Mr. SMITH; of Bury St. Edmunds, who is
still in the perfect possession of his intellectual
powers, and the delight of all who have the plead
sure to know him, though in the Seth year of his
age. Mr. SMITH, however, occupied the higher
walks of the drama, for which his fine person, his
admirable talents, and his scholastic attainments
fully qualified him. Mr. PALMER, in- his line,
possessed a.considerable degree of merit, and trod
successfully in the steps of his brother. Pert
coxcombs, brisk footmen, and sots, were repre-
presented by him with great spirit, and with ra
faithful adherence to life. Lie was contented with
this station, and never aspic. t! at a higher. lie
was indeed an unaffected actor, and in private life
a good-humoured social character. Peace to his

manes !

ASEIBURTO):, Dec. 23, 1817.—This place bath
been alive to-day, and many merry peals have
been ring, in consequence of the arrival of Mr.
A. WIDGER, of this town and Buckfastleigh, from
Loudon, with a• large order for serges, from the
East India Company; not only the numerous la-
bourers that were before in his employ will have
as much as they can do, but hundreds that are
now unemployed will also be put in full work.
All the cry here is ‘• God bless Mr. WIDGER.".
At Buckfastleigh the joy is universal.

Letters from Quebec state, that a Memorial has
been signed by a great number of lifitish settlers,
praying that Government would not take off any
of the duties on timber from the North. of Europe ;
adding, that if any duty was imposed upon the
timber from the. British Settlements in Canada,
they would be unable to come into competition in
the English markets with Sweden and other
northern nations.
We had hoped that on the departure of her
MAJasTY from Bath, whither the head-quarters
of the 38th .Regiment were transferred during
the Royal visit, that .gallant corps . would
have returned to its former station in this
city, but we regret to say, that they have
received orders from the War Office, to march
to Plymouth Barracks, to relieve the 64th,
about to embark for Gibraltar. The company
which was left here, marched from hence on Fri-
day morning, and will be speedily joined by the
other detachments quartered at Bath, Merthyr,
Brecrin, Aberystwith, &c. In common with the
rest of our fellow townsmen, we feel a reluctance
is parting with a regiment which, by its uniform
Orderly and correct conduct, has endeared itself to
all classes in this city. It is but justice to say,
that the exemplary behaviour of both officers
and men entitle them to our best thanks ; and we
• /heartily wish them every success, in whatever
quarter of the globe .their duty may call
(Gloucester Journal.) .

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AMilikleAN B MN-DA:IIIES.

IP'•om ;Ac Onibcc Vtizette.)

The 'Newspapers 11,4 e lately attuoutieed the
ifr-
'ival, in "this''Cay '(4loebec) 'ot 'Colonel Boilchetie,
British •Chhithis:ithf&s
'for -eitatalkbihg the boundary `tine "het*een the
United States and the BritishProliiitte3Of New
Briinswiek and E.,Ossersetnatis. This'Gentleinan
'was employed in direeting a British exploring
'party, actin r, conjointly. With an.Ainericin party.
'in prolonging a line due north froth the I;innutlary,
established under the authority of a former Coin-
misii,nt at the 'source of the St. 'Ctoix. This
pHisi,,g ahoitt three 'miles above the Great
Fall of the St :joi), iihis prolonged, we• under-
.stand, to a hranCh 'of the Ristigonche RiVet, fall-
into tiiesßAY of Chaleurs, and-here suspended,
for the present ; although the Americans wished
to continue it to the sources of the- waters which
fall into the St. Lawrence.

The operations upon which Colonel Bouchette
Was employed, are Ihefely fur the itfurma• ion of
the Commissioners, who will determi►►e, on the
final rerit of the surveyors, what ought to be
the bo►un►!ary, conformably to the second article
of the Treaty of Peace of 1753.

.In the mean time, we thick it our duty to csll
the attention, of the puhlic.to a•s.ubject of so much
iurert.st to. the British Empire, and to 0o:se pro-
vinces itt particular.

It is only necessary to look into an American
Alai), or, to .converse kith an American on the
snbjeet, to know that they extend their preten-
sions to'a-.boundary cutting off from the British
possessions an ,the waters of the. Sr. 30,.n River
above the Great Falk,. and runuing up, within.: a
few leagues of the Saint Lawrence, from Ma-
taste. to the SOIITCeS of the River du Sud, near
Quebec.- .• - •

The following is the attiele ►►f the Treaty on
which they found s tension, so contr.sry to the
state of *tonal and i►ernianent possession of these

countries : -
Aug. ii And that all di,putes .which might
arise in future, on the subject of the boundaries
of the. said United States, may he prevented, it is
lierehy agrred and declared that the tollolNiniare
and 511411 be their boundaries, From the
" north-,west angle of Nova Scotia, viz.: that an-
" g.le which is formed by a line drawn due north
" from the source of St. Croix River to the high
" lands !. along the said, high lands, %Thiel' divide
" thoSe liver's that empty themselves into the River
" St. Lawrence from those
.‘vbieli tall into the At-
-9 'antic Ocean, to the tiortit. westernmost head of
" COAttectielit river,". thence down along the mid-
tile of that iire'to the4sth degree ot.tiorth latitude,
from thence by a. line due west on said latitude,
until it strikes the rive? Irotpiois or Catattury ;
thence along the middle of said rivir into Lake
Ontario, thronJ, fb Middl,, of lakt, Dotil it
strikes the coimnonication by water between that
Pike and Lek.e ; thence along the middle of
trail contmitilie.;;lloll into Lake Erie, through) the
illicit& of said lake, until it arilves at the water
communication bei %veer) that lakt! and Lakellu-

Ton ; 'thence along'the-tuitidle of said water cOin•
tiimgcatiou into Lake lint on, thence through
the inicldle of said rake to the water .cotnnititiica-
t ion between that lake.and Lake Superior; thence
throtigh Lake SUPerior, northward of the isles
Royal and Phelipeadx, to the Long Lake,'thence
through the middle of said Long Lake., and the
watek coriiinunjeatiOn between it and the Lake of
the WoOdS ; 'thence. through the said lake to the
Most (nort tVeitern point thereof, and ft ont..hence
tin a. ane, west course 0, the River Mississippi ;
thence by a line .to be drawn along the middle of
the Itii,er Mississippi,
.until it shall intersect the
. nOrtheinmost 'part of the 3lst degree of north la-
titude, SOOth', by a line to be drawn due east
froM 'thie determination of the Tine last mentioned,
in the latitude of 31 degrees north of the equator
to the middle of the river Apalachicola, or Cats-
honche'; thence along the middle thereof to its
.omi-on with the Flint ricer;‘ thence sit eight to
the head of St.,_Mary'a river ;.and
,thence down
41an.the middle of St. Mary's river to the At-
lantie,Ocean. " East, by aline to be drawn alotkg
the middle of the river St. Croix from its mouth
in the Bay of Fundy to its 'source, and from its
‘.‘ sontce directly north to the aforessid highlands,
g‘vvhieh
.divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic
`.` Ocean from those, which tall into the River St.
Lawrence,;— comprehending all islands within
twenty, leagues of, say part of the shore of the
United , States, and :lying: between lines to be
drawn due east, from the points where the itfote-
said.boundarics, hetween Nova Scotia on the one
part; imr'East Flotilla on the other,'Thall re-
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sp, Ctively touch the Bay of Fundy and 'the At. ,
laotic Ocean ; excep ing 'such islands its now are,
ii)td het et atone have beer;, within the limits of the
said province -of Nova Scotia. •
The parts of this Aiticle which refer.to the boun-
tiAtiesfin 'question, iit're those whiCh we have pot
inttrted conti3tts: If they jet„ify such a. pre-
tension, we twist be 'prepared to submit to it ; it is
a matte!' of cOtiverifion io nie byatlequate'autheiri7
ties and each party is bound to hdhere, to it,
iti:ithoot regarding. the consequences.- :But if
these-pretensions are not justified by the letter or
intentiOns the "Treaty, we might,- eipsalki, to
he" prepared to 'resist them, as we would 'resist dis-
liOnour and-suhitiAation. '
The boundary r.t the source of the. St. Ci•Oix is
fixett correctly or nOt, it is now too late
to call.i.nto.question. " The north-west 'angle of
I‘.lova'Scotia" (New BriMswick) is the Ptiint from
whieli:the•b(otudary line between. Lower Canada:
And the:United 'States waS'intended to :peaCeed;';'
tut tlie'tiorth-west angleOf 'Nova: Scotia was. trot
-known' at the time of making the Tr.eaty.._
pended on the of the bOundary'he;
tiveeti: Canada and Acadia
.(Nova Scotia); which
'was it; dispute. Canada Was eomfuered , by
Great Britaiff.* 'The'framers the Treaty ae—
oordicigly aerciininc .1 it by declaring that it should
*be that angle s liirii is formed by, a line drawn.
clue irlifth f
roM the source of the St. Croix
to theLighlitilili'." in ktitkiug—tif highlands, in

a'river, theteareit Ito ant s are uni-
'versally einderstood. Froth h point tinthese high'.
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'Nods; the'n; the northern boundar'y of tire. United
.
State: is tb counttehee:; And conclude
tilong the said highlands Which 01 their pro-
•" lbngation) divide those rivers tharenipty Mein-
" Selves into rite River_ St. -Lawrence, ';rota those
Whichfall,into the Atlantic Ocean, to the north-
" westernmost bead of Conoecticnt river." No
rr words, it 4eins to us, Could with greaterCertaioty
'have pointed' 'Out the tont tnenc", men! of the
'northern boundary line, than those us'*d by the
framers of the Treaty-, taking these words in their
usual acceptation. -As 'to the part of the eastern
:boundary, described in the fast part the,,abo‘r'c
article dui) still trodetermined, it is the same with
the litre giVeU to determine the north-eaSteru
'angle of Nova Scotia iii the first part, "fi•ont the
source of the St. Croix-, directly nurth,, to the
aforesaid highlabds."
It is probably, however, on the description of
this part of the boundary, that the Americans have
founded their claims to anorthern boiindary pro-
ceeding from a point on the highlands at the
sources of thu rivers which tall into. the St. Law.
.1-etca. In referring to the " aforesaid highlands"'
(the highlaods due north nearest the source of,the
St. Croix), it adds, " which divide tire rivers
" that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from dios'e
" that fall into the liver St. Lawrenee." Now,
in point of fact, the highlands nearest the Saint
Croix, doe north, do mtot divide " the titers that
" tall into the Atlantic Ocean, from those that
" fall into the Saint Lawrence;" they divide, at
that noirt, the rivers that fad into the Atlantic,
from those that tall into the liver. St. John and
the Bay of Fundy ; but they are a prolongation
of the highlands which di% ide the waters of the
St. Lawrence from those falling immediately into
the Atlantic ; they answer the nearest to the de-
scription of the "Meaty, of any highlands which
can be found on the line tine north of the Saint
Croix ; the second range of highlands due north
of that river divides the wateri which fall into the
St. jo.n, flout those that fall into the Cliff of St.
Lawrence ; the third, those that fall into the Bay
of Chaleurs, from those that fall into the River
St—Lawrence: Is the Bay. of Faintly distinguished
in this very article of the Treaty trom the Atlantic,
the Atlantic Ocean meant by the Treaty ? Is the
Bay of Chtdeurs or the Gulf of St. Lawrence the
Atlantic Ocean ? Would any loan, dramapg up
'the simplest deed, he guilty of such inaccuracy. )•
If the Anaeritans will prolong their line due. [total) ►
front the source of the Saint Croix, till they flint
highlands ilivirlittk the rivers which fall into the
Atlantic Ocean, from those that tall into the St.
Lawrence, they must cross that river, and pro-
ceed to the sources of the waters which empty
into the Athintia Ocean somewhere near the en.:
t; ance of Davis's Straits ! for on the whole line
due north the St. Croix., they are the first that
~ part
literally answer this of the description.
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But leaving the narrowest interpretation tit the
words of the Treaty,„ if we conic to the hitinttioo
of its framer,, we find, as they state it theiosi.ilves,
they were cal efol to avoid disinites : they clintre
;or houndicries the heiOu. of land between die•
territories occupied by the different ik-
rees of latitude, the channels of known rivets
and lakes, The iieat est highland due ton tit of the
St. Croix is the heighth 'of land between the Bri-
tish and Aniericati possessions iU that quarter :
the saute kind of boundary is adhered to throtigh-
out, to the north west ertunost branch of the Con-
nectictit river. The intention'was, no doubt, to
give 0; each party throughont that part of the
boundary, the heads of the waters emptying in
their respective term itories. Every other arrange.,
meat would have been contrary to the state of
ptisseision it the thee, and unnecessarily have
giveh rise to future diMeohies.

('l'o be continued.).
*Vide Metnoires sm. les -de l'Acadie:. put/Nailed at
Ainsterdam, 1758. , .