The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-09-15

ther Tie Loufsna which has been oe.,.d to US is +,
haNe " the fame exe ct wlich ]; 10. uay had 81 ~.
hands OF Spain" or tic extent that II had ,ln
Fra'ice potcfei it"? The rirs cf he tres, apr..-.
to embrace tie laf conftIci ,cn-Tte peid do river
therefor feen to De ,he liz. III den g. G. N be-
ewecn the Aneriesn trlri1ory OF Iooiiana, and the
opanifh province of Floritis.
The mcit coldcR:Cl aid luminous ,i.y, uart,re
which has tecn publhed of ,his fu,e4 ives taken bv
Mr. Randolph October . itli IL, tn. ,eaate ~ lie
Louii.ana Treaty This view ] row preieit ro the
iniPeetion OF my readers. For the uoR complete &C.
count OF Louana taken in all its exrei refer them
- Morie's American Gazetteer published during lie
prefent war.
As long ago as the wear 1873, the inhabitants
OF the French province Of Canada explored the
country ON the Miiliaippi. A few years after
wards (i6s > La Sale. with e,nigr,nts from old
france, made iettlement on the hav OF ST..
Bernard, and ut the clofe of the ;Tth century.
previous to the cxiitence of;he Spanifl COLONY of
Peniicola, another French fettlenoent was made
by the governor D'Ibhervlle at Mobile and on
the lie Dauphin, or Maflac;e, at the mouth ct
that bay-In 1919, fhort time previous to the
peace of Utrecht, Louis KY deicribed the ex-
tent of the colony of Louifana (by the tettle-
uents) IN his grant of its executive commerce 10
CroZat. Three years fubfequent 70 this, the
opanrh eftablifh nent at Penfacola WAS formed,
as well rs the iettlenent of the Adams on the rt
yer Mexicana. After various conflicting efforts.
ON both fiSes, the bay and nver PSrdido esas e.
ftablithed, from the peace of l7l9) as the bonn-
Diary between the French province of LouiSana
on the one ilde and the Spanifh province Of F.o-
rida on the other this river being nearly equi~
diltant between Mobile and Pcufscala. Near
the cote of the war between England and
France, rendered memorable for the unexamped
iucceiS with which 1t was conducted by that un-
r'Yalled hateiman the great Lord Chatham,
Spain became party OH the fide of France. The
lois OF the Havannah, and other important de-
tendencies, was the immediate confcGuence. In
1862, France, by iecret treaty of contempo-
raneous date with the preliminary treaty OF
peace, reinquiihed Loui,iana to Spain as an in
dennity for her lofles, funaued by advocating
the caute o! France. Bythe defnitise treaty Of
l763, France coded to England all that bart OF
Louiiana which lies eaa Of the NIinGippi e,:-
cept the iland Of New orleans The ref Of
the province to Spain. IT is 70 Be obierved that
although France oitenGby coded this country
to England, virtually the cefiion was on the part
of Spain; becaufe France was no longer inter
efted in the buiinefs but as the friend of Spain.
(having Observation-Disclosures the whole to her)
and becauie in 1888 refitHtion was made by En-.
gland, not to France, but to Spain. England
having acquired this portion of Louiiiana, toge-
ther with the Spanijh province of Florida, an
neXcd to the former that part of Florida which
lies "eft of the Apalachicola and eaf of the Per-
dido; thereby forming the province of Welt
Florida. 1t is only in Engiiih geography, and
during this period, from I763to 1888, that fuch
country DIS Wet Florida is known For Spain
having acquired both the Floridas in 1888 rean-
ne%ed to Louiiiana tie country welt of the Per-
dido fuhie6t to the governor of New-Oreanss
and eftabliihed the ancient boundaries of Flori.
da; the country between the Perdido and Apa.
lachicola being fubjeef to the governor of st.
Auguftine. By the treaty of ST. Ildefonfo,
spain cedes to France 6" the province of IouG-
ana with the fame extent that it now has in the
hands Of SPAIN" viz. to the Perdido--" and
that 1t had when France poiie1ed tito the
terdido--and fuch as it Mould be after the Urea.
ties fubfequertly entered into between Spainand
other powers" that is favine to the United
States the country given up by the treaty San
LORENZO. We have fucceeied to all the rishts
OF France