Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1811-01-11

Horsey makes use OF frivolous cub.
bic; for he fixes the date of the let,er
OF command from the King of France
to rAb ddie, co deliver possession
OF louisiana to-. S ps,n, as the period
OF cessign OF Louisiana To Spain, in
stead OF the date of the special act of
cession by which means he attempts
to make it appear that Frlnc did not
cede Louisiana to Spain till the year
1854 /; whereas the King Of France
say expressly in his let.err TO l'Aba1-
die, by special act, done at Fon
tainbleau, Nov 3, 1862, OF my own will
ard mere motion, having ceded to my
very dear and best beloved cousin the
king OF Spain, and to his successors,
IN full property. purely and simply, &
without any except .ons tic 1vholc coun
try kho1Oa By tie name al Louisiana,
together with New.Orleans, &c.
thus, the cession TO .S5,ln JvaS made
by France, Of 6 the whole conntr,
known by the name of Louisiana" in
the year 1862 whereas il was not till
toe 10 h day of February 1868, that
France ceded TO England that part of
Loui lana on TIE left Ceast) side of
the Mississippi we say the year 1868,
tor notwithstanding preliminary arti-
cies we're proposed IN 1862. nothing
passed 20 Great Britain till the trea V
of 1868. which adopted, concluded
and ratified the propositions of 1852 !;
and the reason why France appears as
a party ceding to Great Britain in the
treaty of 1868, is, that the cession of
the zuhole Of Louisiana to Spain the
year before Chat is, IN 1862, } was a
secret, or, as the King o. France says,
in his letter 10 PAbaddie, g a sbecial
act :" from winch it appears that
France acted as the agen, OF Spain or
transferring openly whateSp,in secretly
hid a title to before. Bu:even admit
ting that France coded to Spain one
part an6 to Great Britain another part
of Louisiana, on the sans day, Ceor
example on the Sd day of Nov. 1862.
that very fact proves that France d.
vesfed herself ofthe sUhole at once ard
that she never possessed il except in
Its original and fullest extent on the
east and west side of the wi ssissipp,
and, consequently, that the treaty of
St. lldefonso, inretroceding to France,
with the same extent it had in the
hands of France, embraces the same
extent it had before the Sd dav of
Nov. 1862, which was to the Perdido.
MIR. Horsey even seizes on the
specification of the C Island and tervn
Of Ne1v Orleans" as proof in his favor
mot considering that the very phrase
itself shews that it was mere particu
larization and surplussage, as the
mentions of the s. tong" with the
C island" In the same cession is; for
when the island is ceded one would
of course think the town was ceded
too yet we find town and island
both mentioned.
OF the third objection of Mr.. Hor-
sey, raised on the ground of expedien
cy, as we suggested, it is all coniecture
and prophecy.
On this last objection, Mr. Horsey
coujures up war with Spain a strange
conjuration enough, when it is consi =
dered that the Presidents proclamati-
on expressly jarbids hostility 1oisA a,ay
Spanish force ho5Ve0er small! What,
then! Why we merely occupy zuhere
Spain ceases to occupy, and being still
willing to make those adjustments by
friendly negotiation" mentioned in
the letter QUOTED by Mr.. Horsey)
from MIR. Madison to d'Yrujo, if Spain
can hereafter shew the best title, she
viii Of course be restored to full pos
session of the territory. But we ina
CINE she cannot shew good title, or
she would have done it long ago.
Spain, then, has cadse 70 thank US.
But Great Britain viii be offended,
{quoth Mr.. Horsey1 because we did
not ask her what side she would take /!
Can there be need of such question {?
She took side against us during our
revolutionary war; and has she ever
taken, on any Question, any other
side
The federalists are doing all they
can to deprive the u. States OF great
deal of properly. There is no doub t
bat the British will help them.
The renewal OF the charter of the
Bank Of the United States seems to
occupy ali minds to the exclusion oil
sifnoef every other fo,ic In fhia n