The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-01-12

France, made setti ,-aent nt;,esay Of 81. Ber
nard, and st the close Of The 18th century, pre-
vious 10 the existence ofthe Spanish colony q
Pensacola, another French settlement WIS mad,
" the governor D'Ibcr,ille at Mobile and on tn,
lie Dauphin, or Mass ,cre, at the mouth of tina
oay-tn l7l2,a short tune previous to the, peace q
| Utr chit, Louis XIV described the extent of tn,
colonyof i.ouisana (by the seitlements) in hi
grant of1ts exclusive commerce 10 CrOzat. Three
years subsequent to this, the Spanish establish
-nent st Pensacola was formed, as well as ,h.
settlement ofthe Adams an the river Mex,cana
After varions conflicting efforts, on both SIDES
the bay and river Perdido was established
(fror, he Pesce ofl7ls) the hount, ,ry bel weer
the French province of Lomisiana on the one side
AMI the SpsDiSh province os Florida on the other
this cysr beng neariy equi-distant between
Nob lie a,a P.nsscola- Near tho cloSe orthe war
betwe Eng!snd and France, rendered memo
antc Tor the unexampled success with which i,
was conducted by that unrva,l-d statesman the
2rca' Lord Chatham, Spain became a party on
the side OF France Tic loss of the Havannah
an -',!,er important dependencies, was the i'm
mediate cons quence- IN I1G2 France, by q So
cret treaty Of con,emporsneous date with tic
pre!imia nary treaty of peace, relncus,,ed Io,lisi
ana TO Spain as an indemnity for her losses, sus
sined by advocating the. cause of France BY
{ the dchntive treaty of 17GS, France coded TO
England all that part of Louisiana which, lies cas-,
I ct, The Mississippi except the island of Ncw-Or-
/ leans = The rest of the province 10 Spain Ii ~
I to re observed that although France osensibly
ceied this country to England, virtually the
session was on the part Of Spain because France
/ was no longer Interested in the BIZ sn-ss, bu, as
/ the friend of Spain, (havine previously rtlin
qnshed the whole 10 her) and because in 1886
restltnhion was made by England, not tu France
| but TO Spain England having acquired this
portion ct Louis ana, together with the Spanish
province of Florida annexed TO the former that
part oi Florida which hes west of the Apaiach;-
coils and east of the Pertlido thereby forming
the province of West Florida. 1t is only in En-
gllsh geography, and during this period. from
! 1908 to 1888, that such country rs WestEiori
dats KNOWN. For Spain having acquired both the
FL rioa, in I7e3 reannexed to Lcu!a ana the cou,.
try west ofthe Pe.tido subject to the governor o,
Ne"-Crleass AID established the ancient boun-
dares OF Florida; the country between the Per-
DIDO and Apaiachicoia being subject to the o.
vernon OF 81. Augustine BY the treaty Of st IL
Gel nso Spain codes to France ;" the province of
| Lpu'siana with the same extent that it now has
| IN the hands of spain - viz to the Perdito-
and that 1T had when France possessed ito
he Perdido--" and such it sh Md be sc er the
tretiies subsequently entered nto between Spain
an' other powers :" that is saving to the United
D axes the country given up by the treaty San
Lorenzo. We have succeeded to all the rights
| of France"
2 Mr.. JEpEDIAH MORSE Of Ocean memory
comes next-he IS full-5iootled deralist,
plous divine he set IN the Palladium
| n'gh-toned print Of Boston, and he is wontle :
tu' connolsseur in attitudes and longitudes, 4 =
very tong connected with the mysteries of q
| oE' aP.y. In ms American Gazetteer, we haY
the following boundaries
| Louisiana is coded to the u Sta.es "with
the same extent thai il has in the han,is of
Spain, that it had when France possessed
L.. WHAT then we're the limits of Louisiaua
when in the hands of France in 1862 and
since 1t mas been in possession of Spainl For
these are to be its present limits. 1t is pro-
per here t. o serve thar Hest Florida is
known neitrer IN French nor Spanish Geo
graphy. 1t originated with the British in
iIo3, at which time, as has been ment oned,
a. he coun ~ +. OF the Mississippi, except
New Orleans was ceded to- this nation,
VINO then tor the first ime divided the Ter
ri'orv ,. OF Ge' rgia. and Il. of rhe IhberVrlle
INTO Il. and w Fio ida This territorial d.
v'slon continued only till the country " as ia
by. and confirmed to SPAN, in I7S3, ex-
sept in the books of English and American
Biography. lMitcheip4 Ms. Letter I "Be
tore the treaty of peace, in 1852, Louisiana
extended in the French maps, from the
Gulph OF Mexico to near Is degrees of N
lat on The W. side of the Mississippi. and to
near ~ degrees on its eastern bank. It's
boundaries were Canada on the N. N. York.
Pennsylvania, Virginia, c Carolina. and the n
w part OF the easternmost peninsula of
| Florida on the +. .he Gulf of Mexico S. ami
N. Mexico W. lHutchins According
to Dn Prat2. LouisIana is bounded 5. and w
AS above; N. part by Canada in part
IT extends with 7ut an assgnable bounds. 20
the Ierr lncognia. adjoining to Hudson's
bay; Ia by The British provinces aboyemen-
toned, and by Rio Perddo signifyine Lost
river. aptly so called by TIE Spaniards. be
cause IT loses itself under ground, and after
wards appears again and discharges itself in
o the sea little to the T.. of Mobile. on
which the first French plan ers settled -
| These limits Of Louisiana, as possessed bv
France and Spain, and acknowledged by o.
Their powers, are from the best authorities
and 1t is presumed NAV be considered as COZ
rect; and they give us the extent If our new
ly acqmredterritor the boundaries of which
as far as can be ascertained are as follows
viz. ). on the Gulph of Mexico, from the
bay Of st Barnard s. w. # the MississiDp
to the mouth of the Rio Perdido, above de-
Iseribed !; up this river TO its source, and
thence, Gf it rise not N. Of the S1st degree
OF lat) on straight line N. TO that parallel .
thence along the southern boundary of the u
S ates w. to the Mississippi; then up this
river to its source, as established by the
treaty of 178S"
| W Uhn the Devil round the Sunni.
| PROVERB
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