The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-09-22

Nowtms@aitogethert ,therWlfaiIy rlilTeDrc
tented or paipably miftiaen. The country her,
fPecfcd was ceded to S?i!. by Francs Ia vi,tu.
Iof fecfet convention drted ;hc Sd cf N,ycm
Der 1909, which preceded what is called the
"oyiyi1ai csiIion."
i Ns'theris it faa ths. the coun,ry NOW cal
led E. & W. Florida was held ever aocs ane
wlthout a;t,' ,ticn Of huundaries by Soaia; =,
1t is wen ~ Sn tha' during our revolution, ths
Bnt'ih too pof'efscn of Florida, and {, far ron
Its rcms,;Gs without boundary, The Brrt,il did
actual! oxide the country again into two pro.
vinceS, 'aicf they called Eaf aud Wa ri 3rida
| But = may he proper III this place to Advert
TO the original conditions and names &c thof.
countries. tt Whole Ofthe territory fouth II
V'reoi4 vas ff call. Florida, aud it was wa,
a vio'7 to its cPpeurt that Soto I ont from
Cut IA the v"ysv- w'te eH he dii:ov,red the
M 5n'rpi. Tho plantations of Carolina and
o. nat Ca'n"n' and fihi.quently of Georgia,
took from IL countri,s iheretot,jre called Flo
rlaN.
The Iucc T; Of the Dri;ifh plantations, and the
0lputes mich arar' between their fouthern
neighbours, 7ndthe difputes which arofe upon
the teas, bttwten the two nations, produced a
variety Of nerociations. Thofe which took
piaC- IN 1888 aroie from the Splniius inifing
on the right of "v'ing, fsarching" Rritiih vef-
ELS, and The counter complaints of Britain, that
-,
a convention concluded at Pardo on the l4lh
January 1889, whereas il was ftipulated l." that
comm'iiioners !hould BE- appointed to regulate
the pretenll pis the two powers in relation to
the limits Of Florida and Carolina
ltappe1rs that commiHoners were appointed
and that they determined the limits of Florida,
to be line drawn from fort St. George on the
mouth of the river San Matheo, due WET to the
mouth of the river Vaiifa, in the bay of Apala-
chez. We have before us the convention of
Pardo, and the map with the boundary line thus
drawn, puhliihed in 1855
The river st. Matheo, is now called the St.
john nver, and is i'll latitude 80, 35 north.
This boundary it will appear was facrifce
on the part of Great Britain, which plainly
thews that fhe thought it neceGary to make
Tome repatriation to Spain for the Caronans
had by two very defperate battles in 1902 and
l!os, IN which the Spaniards were overcome,
obtained poiieliion of the county ofthe ApaIa-
chees, and had extended their condueRs to the
full limits of the Carolina charter, by the de-
itruction OF the Timooeus Indians, and the Spa
niards who had joined them in 1905.
Inc Carolina charter extended the boInda-
ny to the goth degree of north latitude and thefe
ievera victories of the Carolinians had fecured
what by charter they had been granted. Great
Britain in granting to Spain by the operation of
the convention of Pardo, territory, which fhe
held to the extent OF degree Of latitude, aGled
towards Spain 70 FIR literally. But what is i'm
Portant to the prefent guefton is, that the line
fettled by the convention at Pardo, limits Flo
rida imply 10 the peninfhla, and does not ex-
tend 1t even as far as the St. Marks or to the
APalachicoa rivers.
From thenceforward to 73e, when the char
ter TOR Georgia was paf1ed, the whole of that
country from the Currituck Inlet, the fouth
boundary OF Virginia, to Cape Canaveral, in lat.
~ 54' was called Carolina; and after Georgia
nad oeeh eitabrihed, the country north of the
river st. Johns, and as far as Savannah on the
lea coat was called Georgia, as well as the in
terror to the river ALBANIA, and all the countries
or the Greeks; and thence beyond called and
CLAIMED by the French as Louhana I'D to the
Allegheny mountains.
1t appears then that the Madrid letter is not
correct IN its petition, that Ear and bfea Flo.
rida was originally coded by France to England
in 1888.
l. Becaufe neither the treaty of 1868, nor the
convention OF Pardo of 1899 even mention
any fuch fubdiviion.
9. Becaufe as it appears bv the fats. The whole
OF Florida, after the convention of Pardo, was
neceiiarily limited to the peninfula, part OF
what is now called EAT Florida.
.. Becauie as is evident from this convention
that even the occupation of that part of what
is now called Eaf Florida which lies north
ofthe 500 s5'-waS an ufurpaton and con-
traventIon of the pre-exihing convention,
which ought not to be brought up even if ii
would 1'uld be OF ufe in fupport of claim to a
It'll more extenGve innovation.
a. 1t is not correct poftion-to aiIert, that any
part or Florida was originally ceded by
France to England, becaufe the original ceffi.
on was made by France to Spain in 1762.
5. Becaufe the diviion into two provinces wa,
made by the Britiih after the treaty of 1853
their intention being to extend their frontier
along the Miflilfipp and to combine their DO.
lltlcal and commercial operations from Cana.
da by the Lakes with the Mifiiiippi.