Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-06-09

lit. The treaty OF fOntalhDiedu Wds oiSSn
ID on that very day twelve months, the
18th Of April, and the Noble Lord oppo-
tie gave in his accession to that treaty
he same day. The convention for the
CESSATION of hostilities was signed at Pa
lris on the eth April, and the final trea-
" of peace with France on the soth Of
iNay. What then, was the obstacle te
lthe immediate commencement of nego-
,iations with America? What more ia
|gorable time could have been found thar
IN the conclusion of the treaty witt
Trances At no time could negotiation
iAaye been entered upon with so good a
grace and effect, both as respected Ame-
l,ica and Europe. This country had Their
successfully terminated one contest; if
vas powerful enough to continue that witt
America, and the more elevated its situa-
| ion in the estimation of the world, the
more incumbent was it on Ministers to
Iorove the magnaniInity and generosity OF
Britain. The negotiation, did not, how
lever, commence till the 9th of August,
when the commissioners held their first
at Client. The mediation Of
russia had been previously proposed, but
lit was declined. and direct negotiation
preferred. Not till the 9th of August,
then was the first conference held: and
Here the British commissioners proposed
lin substance the terms ofpeace to which
ministers would accede. These were the
oaciication of cur Iudian allies, as they
| we're called. the defiDitive settlement OF
our Indian frontier, the exclusive militia
l,y possession of tie lakes of Canada by
IBIS country. together withcertain islands
n TIE bay of Passamaquoddy, which were
said to belong to US by tie treaty of 1888.
4 wish was also added that the boundary
inc of the territory between the Missis-
sinrA and the Canadian lakes should he
.de!initively fixed but the principal points
linsisted on, were Indian pacifcation. and
fl deinitive boundary to Indian territory.
| The American ENJOYS were told that
lti'e se two roin!s were the sine qua mons
To- pac:ication, and that the others were
ot urged as Of equal Importance. With
ut asserting to these two conditions, it
vas i'lti,nated that no peace was to be
avrected. TO all this tie American
Commissioners reriied, that they had
mo power to cede ore inch of tie
TERRITORY of America, nor would they re-
commend it to their Government. Ac-
cordingly the negotiations we're for time
suspended, ard the Americans sent
home for further Instructions. Their
dispatches at the same time notified, that
n their opinion there was no hope of
5eace. either in the demands themselves,
Tor in TIE manner in which they were urg-
I'd. When TIE documents arrived tie
president laid them before the American
@oagress, and according to the forms of
that government they we're forthwith pub
il:shed to the world. Then it was seen,
| trat not only the American legislature.
but the whole nation were unanimous in
rejecting the proposals of ministers.
| Not even in those States which were un-
derstood to be friendly to this country,
lifdisnosed to the war and hostile to the
President and his measures, was there to
ne found the smallest disposition to yield
an inch of American territory and it is
rena, able. a. showing the blind impolicv
Of our mi isters. that one of the chief
sessions demanded was to be made
firom TIE terrtary of Massachusetts, the
very State which was most hostile to
tie war, ard the least friendly to MIR.
MADISON. Was it wise orpolitic to make
any demand tending to ALLEVIATE this
state from the friendship or alliance OF
England, and place it in the predica-
ment of givirg portion of its territory,
or its predictions, at the very moment
when we professed to expect much from
these predictions !? He neverrecollect
ed any former occasion where an address
on treaty had been moved by q gentle
man not in any responsible and official 81
tuation. Che peace of Paris was men
tened across the table as all instance
t might be so, but the precedent was not
good one, for an official person was g
lone able to give that authentic informa-
ton which tie house had a right to ex-
rect. But to proceed with the negocia-
tons: At Lest, after various conieren-
ces, the English commissioners produced
OH the 9Th Of October, an article for the
lpacifcation of the Indians, in which there
vas not syllable about Indian territory
or boundary. Indeed the American COM
missicners all along contended, that tLey
alone had the right of sovereignty, that
the indians ONLY lived upon it as Eslt