The Wilmingtonian., 1824-04-15

the English Factories employed in the trade
along that coast, and she erected fortress
at Nootka. The English Government, di-
rected at that time by the celebrated FIT
expressed strong resentment, ilt'eu our
large armaments, and threatened to declare
war against Spain if she did not give sat's-
faction to England. :.
"Aiter many negotiations. which IT
would be too tedious to recapltulate here
the Cabinet of Madrid, having abandoned
all hope of being supported by France (who
was then too much occupied with her own
troubles), and being in no condi'lon 70
struggle sng.e-handed with her powerful
adversary, she was obliged to yield to the
imperious law of necessity.-On the 2oth
of October, 1870, Convention was con-
cluded with England by which all the
points at issue were decided in favour OF
the latter Power. The first article OF this
Convention states, that the buildings and
districts situated on the North West Coast
Of North America. or on the adjacent ISL
ands, of which the subjects CT his Brltannlc
Majesty had been iispossessed towards the
month of April, 1872, shall be restored to
his Britannia Majesty's said SUBJECTS
&c.
"The execution of this convention expe-
renced difficulties which were not ilna''y
arranged until the oS of March, l1o5. The
Spanish fort was razcd to the ground, the
English flag was planted at Nootka, as Il
SIGN of possession and ever since Great
Britain has retained this important place,
which secures her the fur trade OF North A.
merica and the fisheries Of the South Sea.
:" have the honour to be &c, /" ID. H."
The explanation given by M. ID. l"e exhl-
bits, without contradiction, the exact truth
with respect to the establishment on the
isle of Nootka Sound, consiGeredin HscD I;
only it must be remarked, that England
has not kept the slightest garrison on that
point. 1t was not till after 1916, that
posts Of fur hunters belonging to the Uni
ted Companies of tie North West and
Hudson Eay,aitcr having passed the Rocky
Mountains established themselves upon
a part of the Continental coast, to which
they have given The name Of New Caledo-
MIA. The existence of these establishments
was only known at Lcndnn from the ac-
count Of voyage printed in the United
States.
New Caledonia extends to the North Of
fscw-Geo"sia, 50 nanod by Captain Van
coGyer, who made "A map OF it aud took
possession OF it IN the name of England,
in l7Gj.
The u. States, on their side, pretend by
the acquisition Of Louisiana, that they have
attained rights to the famous UeSt rivti
explored by the French, and named by the
Americans COlambia They have explor
ed the course oft w;th much success, and
they Keep up mii.tary posts at the mouth
rnd on some ot;cr yants.
The course u the river has particularly
in it that :, is formed Of two great rivers
one irctn the North, which unitcs almost
all the waters of New Caledonia, and the
other, flowing from the South, receives
many rivers, Gaming from New California;
so that the Uasin Of the Columbia, very mar
row on The maritime coast takes an i'm.
mcnse dcveloprHcnt in the interior. This
district OF Cregan which the u. ). consider
as their property, manaces at the same
time both the Spanish and English from
tiers.
A third nation has advanced into these
uncultivated countries. The Russians have
formed in one of the isles adjacent to New
Caledonia, the establishment of Sitka, oi
New Archangel; they have treated as sub
iiects, the insular Indians to the 5lst degree
of latitude, and the passing through Moot
ka Sound and the mouth of the Columbia
they have established permanent post a
Bodega, at thirty eight degrees, in Cal
irornia.-There has therefore Been confu
sion between all these occupations.
But,dismssing for moment the Russians
the English, and the United States, ",
ask when, and how, the King OF Spain ha
renounceI his ancient rights to the Who'll,
Of the coasts from the 5oth degree nortI
az far as California, coasts discovered an'
repeatedly visited by Spanish navigators
in 1855, in 1883, in 1912, and l714: Nh,
King of Spain cedcd in 1859 and LOS, tn,
single point of occupation of Nootka bu
the ces-ion of one spot does not carry wit
, it the cessinn of all the rest, and respec
ting whice the treaties cited by ID. l.. ar
t silent.
, Spain appears to us therefore, to have rigl
TO he included in the negotiations opened b,
tween England. the United States and Russia. O
the subject of these disputed countries.
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