Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-12-08

unexpected at that Period that it wouls
ys have no reason 10 reiract the opInio..
which we then expressed, that no hopes q.
peace as likely to result from it, could De
entertained. 1t is true, that the terms
emptorily prescribed at that time, have
been apparently abandoned, and that tie
sine qua non then required as prsIimlD-
airy to all discussion upon other topics, has
been reduced TO an article securing merely
en- Indian pacification, which we have
agreed to accept, subject to the ratihea.
ton or rejection of our government-
But you will perceive, that our request for
the exchange of project of treaty, has
been eluded, and that in their last note
the British plenipotentiar have advanced
a demand not only new and inadnssib,e
but totally incompatible with their unitorm
previous declarations. that &. Britain had
no view in this negotiation to any aequisl-
ton of territory. It will be perceived. THAI
this new preteHsion was brought forward
Immediately after the accounts had bean
received that British force bad taken pox.
session of all that part of the state of Mas.
eachusetts situate east of Penobscot river.
The British plenipotentiaries have inyaria.
bly, referred TO their government every nols
received from us, and waited the ejarn "
their messenger before they have transmit,
ted to US their answer, and the whole teno-
of the correspondence, as well as the man.
ner in which it has been conducted on tue
part of the British government, have con.
Cured to convince us, that their object has
been delay their motives fer this policy
we presume to have been TO keep the alter
native of peace, or of protracted war, in
their own hands, until the general az.
rangement Of European anairs should be-
accomplished at the congress of Vienna,
and until they could avail themselves Of
the advantages which they have anticipat-
ed from the success of their arms during
the present campaign in America
Although the soversigns who had de-
terurined to be present at the congress Of
Vienna .have been already several weeks
assembled there, It does not appear by the
last advices from that place, that tie con-
gress has beer formally opened On the
contrary, by declaration from the pleni-
potentiaries Of the powers who were parties
to the peace of Paris of 3Oih May last, the
opening OF the congress appears to have
been postponed to the first fNoy. a me-
mortal is said to nave been presented by
the French ambassador, Falieyrand, in
which i, is declared, that Franco, having
returned to her boundaries of 1872, can re-
cognize none of the aggrandizementa of the
other great powers of Europe since that
period, akho' not intending to oppose them
by war.
These circumstances indicate that the
new basis for the political system OF Eu-
rope, will not be SO speedily settled as had
been expected. The principle thus assum-
ed by France isvery extensive in its effects,
and opens field for negotiation much wi
der than had been anticipated. We think
it does not promise an aspect of immediate
tranquility to this continent, and that il
will disconcert particularly the measures
which Great Britain has been taking ,wlth
regard the future destination of this coup-
try among others, and to which she has at.
.ached apparently much importance.
We have the honor to be, with great res.
pect, sir, your very humble servants.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,
y. II. BAYARD,
III. CLAY,
JONATHAN RUSSELL,