American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-08-02
From the Qnebec Gnzette.


From The Quebec Gazette.
A Belfast paper Of the Slst May, has been very
lent US, from which we extract the follow
ing intelligence. We cannot but alude to the haugh
ty manner in which Russia treats the United States
there is strong disposition, think, in that power
to encroachment on all sides, and we fear that she is
now so strong that 1t will be dangerous to oppose
her in Europe without great precaution. The sys-
tenn of the balance OF power to have been lost
sight of within few years past.
From the Times
Russia and the United .States-We do not know
that we have, since the conclusion of the last war,
presented more important state papers relating to
The Of other nations, than those which our
readers will find to-day, in relation to subject Of
contest which has sprung up between the United
States Of America and the Emperor Of Russia -
Your if" is said to be great peace maker, and in
the present instance, If one or other Of the parties
does not recede from its pretensions, war is newt
able; for to go no further than point, though
There many involved in the dispute but upon
one single point the correspondence thus closes on
leither part -
"From the period OF the existence of the United
States an independent nation their vessels have
freely navigated those seas and the right TO naui
gate them is part If that independence" -.lir.
.4dams'S Note, JHarch 80, 1922.
81 cannot dssemble, Sir, that this same trade
beyond the 51st degree, will meet with difficulties
and inconvehiencies, for which the American own
ers will only have to accuse their own imprudence,
after the publicity which has been given to the mea
sures taken by the Imperial Government for main.
Itainlng the rights Of The Russian American Com
lpany in their absolute integrity.-VM de PoLeticas
.4nslcer, .aprH Q.
1t seems then, that all that is necessary upon this
lsnge point, to place the two nations in state of war
lis--that the Americans should exercise right
which is "a part If their independence !" and tina
the Russians should, they assert they will, attack
1.-THE Americans exercising this right!
| The chief topic discussed in the correspondence
may be thus briefly explained Russia claims The
whole of the Northwest coast OF America, down Il
the 5s degree of latitude, and prohibits the entrance
Of any foreign ships into the seas within that latitude
or within hundred Italian miles of the shore, de
claling also, that she shall consider all vessels a:
knowingly contravenng this her claim. which have
left European port since last March, or shall leave
an American one after the 1st of next July IL
this the American Government answers by expires
sing the utmost surprise at such proceeding =
The territorial line separating the two counti les
ought TO have been drawn by commissioners on both
sides and at all events, the claims of Russia ought
not to descend below the 55th degree of latitude
that being the position OF her southernmost settle
ment The reply to this reasoning by the Russian
negocator is this that Russia had no occasion Il
settle the territorial boundary by means of commits
.ioners, as she knew very well of herself, how fa
her right extended, and therefore needed not Il
trouble any other nation with an inquiry upon TIT
subject.