The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

Peel's measures on colo-

s is appre-
the ex-

r fears may prove ungrounded

;reat one, and it remains
e will be benefited by the

ang feeling adverse to

regulations between

We have made o

ly made on the

that document, it will be
his subject, with the
ed

lions to negociat

- - -
rriv w
ernment, and if, in

'ublic attention

formation on

rom the Geological Survey,
11 lying dormant. Neither
which would
ts, notwithstanding the

extent

Lirpate favourable, for the extensive
-cries, if not of the luxuriesof life.
:fore, should the energies of the Pro-
211111st a corresponding feeling of

resources will animate the in-
at something will at once be done
)four natural advantages.

IBURTON'S MISSION

-ew York Albion, May 7.)
, • A-

shington, written at4;erbal, have
presented that the special minister
pgress towards arranging one of the
steely, the north-eastern boundary
,c 1 tone of the Maine journals cor-
and- they are now rendered almost
ior of the State of Maine having
f the Legislature. This is certainly
ice, dwe trust that the efforts of

with success.
Ind another gentleman baye
f State, or deputed b
gton as Commissioners,
Lye the benefit of their
This we think very proper, for
)f the territory in dispute is ab-
who wishes to become properly
Judge Preble, we know, is
iciness, for he was sent to the
in Commissir when the matter was
f Holland foron hies arbitrament ; and he
its minute acquaintance with the matter

to Wash;

LllSpute.
•
But it the knowledge and abilities of Judge Peble are ne-
I
sary to the American Government, so also are the know-
:
and abilities of some gentlemen on the British side,
lady well versed, to Lord Ashburton ; and we dare say
it this has not escaped his lordship's observation, although
have not heard of any one being called from New Bruns-
:A for this purpose. A gentleman combining legal attain-
Tits and high personal worth—with a full knowledge of
topography of the territory, as well as the history of the
ole question, is alone competent to give counsel in such a
e. Without such an aniiiia—ry his lordship will—if a set-
ment by compromise is to be made—often find himself at
lt, and he will, as a matter of necessity, be negotiating in

We know of no person so competent to meet Judge Preble
the Honourable the Chief 'Nance Chipman, who is, we

I the pro

carp, in

with the late Colonel Barclay, in tracing tk
1616-17, and who is himself well versed in t
tion in all its ramifications: this is sufficiently
little treatise he published on the subject a few years ago
which is the most clear, comprehensive, and understandable
exposition, if we may use such a word, that has appeared on

the British side of the questi

shewn by the

e settlement of this long and troublesome ques

whether it be doe

compromise or upon
it is sincerely to be

the stipulations of the trea
hoped that a spirit of justice will anima
a mutual feeling of accommodation and conce
vail—and, to use the language of the prelim
1782, that they will adopt " such principles of liberality,
equity, and reciprocity, as that partial advantages (those
seeds of discord) being excluded, such a beneficial inter-
course may be established between the two countries as to
secure to both perpetual peace and harmony.

of 17R3,

treaty of

SECOND EDITION.

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