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AMERICA.

HALIFAX. JULY 28.—The Legiflatore of Nova
Scotia have adjourned without voting the Supplies.
tribally palled at the dole rlevery Sefton. The Le-
gifisture adjourned on the 27th ; the followiss is the
iptcch of the Governor :
Gentlemen of the Council, aml of the Altembly,

" I Ma very forryskat tdifference of opinion in the two branches
oftbe Ltgillature, mould have prevented the paling of the Appro-
priation Bill ufually enacted at the end of the Semen; but tuult
this will not be found acircurnftance from which any great incon-
venience will refult. Such of the votes fur granting money for the
knees agreed on. as have been cent up by the Houle, and concur-
red in by the .20uncil. will be paid, as was ufually done previous
t the pradtice in this Province of pairing Rich Bills ; and out of
the moue granted for the fupport of the Government, and oot
Other wife appropriated, I dist' feel myfelf juftified ici paying the
Lassies ufually granted to the Officers of Government, and in clif-
ehorging the current contingenciea of the public (ovine; unmet
which I lien willingly include the pay of the Members, at the rate
of tot *siftings per day ; abd fuch of them as mail apply to the
'Pre eery will be accordingly paid on the ofbal certificates. I have
only to ream/mild to you the cultivation of peace and harmony
In your refpeetivc fituations in the Province, as the (affil and belt
menu of (coning and increifing the happincfs of the peol.k."

DISPUTE BETWEEN SPt/IV An'D THE
UNITED STATES.

The following official Remonftrance will ferve to
erplain more fully, than the letter inferted in our
Paper of Tuefday, the nature of the difpute between
the Spanith Govenment and the United States :
14 In the Momileurs, Nos. 396 and 397, publifised
In New Orleans, the reth and 13th of left month, I
otsferve, tranflated into Fetnch. the Aft which Saes
the impofitiun and mcde of receiving the duties on
goods that may be Imported into the ports of the
United States and having teen, with much furprite,
that Mobil: is, comprehended in the number, as well
as other territories, which form pan of the Well Flo-
rida, which his Majefty had been pleated to contra
to me, I thould be wanting in my duty, were I to
remain a quiet fpeaator of fuch a manifeft violation
of the indubitable rights of fovereignty which his Ma-
jellf poffeffes over the Paid province. Such a viola.
fiat cannot be attributed to error, for error always
perateds from inures which, in this inftance, do not
*sift, for the rearms I ass about to expote.
The United Stat•A pretend, that the limits of
their purchafe reach ••t the Eaftward, as far as the
River Perdido, founding their pretention on its having
been formerly the boundary of the province of Lout-
flanaron that fide ; but as France ceded to Great
• Britain, by the treaty of 1763, all the country, from
the mouth of the River Iberville to the River Per-
dido, which country was conquered by his Majefty's
NUBS during the war of 1779, it is evident that the
United States have much lets right to claim the ter-
ritory in question, than his Majefty had, when he
received Loutfiana from France, to demand the
whole of the country from Pittfbourg (formerly Fort
Duquerne) to the confluence of the Ohio with the
kliffdlipp;, ceded, in the Paid treaty, by France to
Great Britain, who was then milli-els of thole coin.
tries, now called the United States. I repeat, Sir,
that tho•fe States have lets right to claim tl.is terri-
tory, becatife your Escellency knows that the right
bf conqueft is always preferable to that of cerfian.
•t The prefent cafe is penally fimilar, and if the
United States believe that their boundary extends to
the River Perdido, for the reafons they alledge, they
oftabliCh a precedent tor his Majeriy to make Isle of
Lis right to the alOtelnelltiened tertitOtieS, a right
which he did not avail himfelf of when he took pot-
fetfion of Louifiana, becaule he did not then conceive
it valid, nor would he at this moment, were it not for
the ftmilitude it bears to the prefent clauns of the
United States.
. _ _

ig by the iSMC arguments which the United States
make uk of, to obtain what fuits them, r. a. to demand
the province rd. Louiliana, as it formerly was, and not
as it aow i►, it may he proved to them, that Primes
Di LEO'S, who was the fitil European alto landed on
the CO'Aft .•f Florida in 1512, took potietlion of it in
the name of his blaj,:fit, according to the cuflom
of other difcoveties. It is likewile well known, that
during the period immediately fubfequent to the dif-
covery, all the country. from the Bay of Mexico to
the Northern extremity of what is now occupied by
the United States, was known under the appellation
of 1- iorida. It provinces, therefore, are to be claim-
ed by what thee have one' Leen, Spain will ceitainly
'have to yield Welt Florida ; but on the fame princt•
ple the United States will have to give up to Spain,
Georgia, South and North Carolina, &c. &c. I now
wfk your Excellency, what name the United States
would give to a claim of this nature, made by Spain?
be it whit you pleafe, it is the fame I mull confer on
the retention now formed by the United States.
" Your Excellency will recolleAl that, by the trea-
ty of St. lldehinfo, of the la of Oelober, tBOO, and
that of Madrid, I,ff March, 180 1, the Court of Spain
receded to the French Govetnment the province of
Loiritiara ; and as the verb recede has, in Well, a
definite meaning, which your Excellency mull know
as well as 1, you mull be equally aware that the re.
ceffion of Louifiana to France could not comprife
Well Florida, which was conquered by his Majelly
many years fubfequent to his having polfelli•in of
Lnuifiana, unlefs in confequence of an expels chafe
flipulating the fame: thi. (lame dues not c.in, there-
fore. there can be no foundation for the pretenfions of
the United States.
" On the above principles, and in conformity with
the ditty impored upon me by my nation, I protelf
housefly and folcmnly at•aintt the aft of Congrcfs al-
luded to ab ,ire. and declare to your Exccllett- y, and
thriaigh you to the Government of the United S. atcs,
that I feel it my duty, and 1 am therefore refr.lved tO
refill, by force 'it al ms, if necedary, any aft of autho-
rity that the United Stater, or any individual in its
name, Mall pretun•t to eseicile %cabin the dom.m at,
of his Majesty, and all and every .a, Jero'at• ry to
his fovereignty, devolving the retponfibility r 1 Ore
eonfequences en him, who Mall, by precipitate
fares. or unfounded pretcnfions, ditturb or mit inAe
the good sondes ilanding now fubfilling lastiaceu •.t.;
refsiedive nation..
" Coo ;Net ►ve you many years.
iljtiTi TOLCK."
P.."( :•44..510f g. 1604.

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