Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-05-19

Illegally captured, has been constantly
restored by The decisions If The tribunals
OF the United States, nov has the Ute IL
seq been spared Of individuals guilty OF
piracy, committed upon Spanish proper
ty on the high seas.
Should the treaty be ratified by Spain,
and The ratification be accepted by and
with the advice and consent ofthe Senate.
| The boundary line recognized by il, will
be respected by the United States, aud
due care will be taken TO prevent ANY
| fransgression Of il. No new law or en-
| sagemen' viii be necessary for llia; pur
| pose: The existing laws are adequate
| 10 The suppression of such disorders,
anu they will be, as they have becu, faith.
fully carried into effect. The miserable
! dIsorderly movement of a lumber not
exceeding seventy lawiess individual
slragS!ers. who a"ver assembled within
The jurisdiction Of The United States, Into
territory 10 which His Catholic Majesty
has no acknowledged right other Than
the yet unratihed treaty, was so lar from
! receiving conntenance or support from
The government Of The United States, that
every measure necessary Tor lis suppress
sion was promptly taken under their
authority and from the misreprcspm,a"
tons which have been made Of this very
insignificant transaction 10 the Spanish
| government. there is reason 10 believe
that the pretended expedition itself, as
well as The gross exaCgerailons which
| have been used,tO swell lis importance.
proceed from the same sources, equally
| unfriendiy 10 the United States and TO
| Spain
| As a necessary consequence Of the nfu.
irall,y between Spain and The South A.
merican provinces, The United States
can contract no engagement, mol 10 form
any relations with those provinces. This
has explicitly and repeatedly been avow-
ed and made known 10 your government,
both AT Madrid and a, this place. The
demand was resisted both in conference
ana written correspondemce,b between Mr..
Erving and Mr.. Pizarro.
Mr.. Onis had long and constantly been
informed, that persistence in il would
| put an end 10 the possible conclusion of
any treaty whatever. Your sovereign
will perceive that as such an engagement
| cannot be contracted by the United
States &C ,.sisienily with their obligations
OF neutrality, il cannot juS,.y be required
OF Them, nor have any of The European
nations ever bound themselves TO Spain
by such all engagement.
| With regard to your proposals. IL is pro-
per 10 observe, that His Catholic Majes-
ty, In announcing his purpose of asking
| explorations of the United States, gave no
ihlimailon OF an intention 10 require new
| articles 10 tue treaty. You are aware
that the United 5 ales cannot consistent
~ with what is due 10 themselves, siipu-
late new engagements, as the price of OBJ
tanning The ratification of the old. The
declaration which Mr.. Forsyth was in-
| siructed to deliver, at the exchange OF
The notifications of the treaty with regard
10 the 9Th article, was rot intended 10
annul, or IN the slightest degree to alter
or impair the stipulaiions OF that article
us only object was 10 guard your 60
verDment, and all persons who might
have bad any interest in any of The an
nulled grants, against the possible expec
taiion or pretence that those grants would
be made pahd by the Treaty. All grants
subsequent 10 The oath January 1918, were
declared To be positively null IL void; and
MIR. Onis always declared that he signed
the treaty, fully beheving that the grants
10 the Duke OF AIagon, Count Punon
Rostro, and Mr.. Vargas, were spbsc-
quent 10 that date. But lie had in his
letter to me OF 10th Nov. 1878, declared
that those grants were null and void, be,
grants, had not been fulfilled by the gran
tees. 1t was distinctly understood by
us both, that no grant of whatever date,
| should be made valid by the treaty,
which would not have been valid by the
laws oil Spain and the Indies il the treaty
had not been made. 1t was therefore
stipulated That grants prior TO the 24IlI
January 1918, should be confirmed, only
TO the same extent that the same grants
would be valid, If the Territories had re-
NAMED under the dominion of his Calb1
Ollie Majesty" This of course excluded
The three grants above mentioned, wIlich
Mr.. Onis had declared invalid for want
OF The fufiIment Of their essential con-
diiions, fact which is now explicitly adj
mitted by you. A single exception TO
the principle that The Treaty should give
no confirmation 10 any imperfect title,
was admitted WHICH RECEPTION was, that
owners in possession of lands, who, by rea.
son OF the recent circumstances Of the
Spanish nation, and the Revolutions in
Europe, had been prevented from fulfill
ing all the conditions of their grants.
should complete them within the terms
limited III the same, from the date of the
treaty ; this had obviously no reference
to tie above mentioned grants, the gram
ices of which were not IN possession Of
the lands, who had fulfilled none Of their
conditions, and who had not been pre-
UeDfed irom fulfilling any OF them by The
circumstances of Spain, or the reyolu,
lions OF Europe.
The article was drawn up by me and
before asserting TO it, Mr.. Onis enquired
what was understood by me as the i'm
port of the terms shall complete them"
| told bin that in connection with the
terms " all the conditions, they necessa-
rlly implied that The indulgence would be
limited 10 grantees, who had performed
| some of the conditions md ,.bo l,a a