The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-10

should be removed as speedily as practices III
In NY last annual message you were inEorme
that the proposition for a commission of e,
: pioratlon and survey promised by Great Br
tam had been received, and that counterprC
Ject, including also provision for the certai
and hnai adjustment of the limits in disput,
was then before the British Government for Il
consideration The answer of that Govern
ment accompanied by additional proposition
Oh IT'S own was received, through its ministe
mere, since your separation. These wer
promptly considered, such as were deemed co,
rect IN principle, and consistent with due re
gard to the just tights of the United States an
oil the State of Maine, eoncurred in; and tn
reasons for dissenting from the residue, witt
an additional suggestion on our part, communi
Gated oy the >ecretary Of State 10 Mr. Fox
mat mlnlsta not feeling himself sufficient,
instructed up9r some of the points raised in tn
discussion, felt ii to be his duty TO refer IN,
matter to his own Government for its furthe
decision Having now been for some time IN
der ITS AMUSEMENT, speedy answer NAV b,
confidently expected. FIom the character o
the points still in difference, and the undoubtsf
[ disposition of tn parties to bring the matter
to an early conclusion. | look with en-.
tire confidence to a prompt and satisfac.
tory termination of the negotiation. Three
commissioners were appointed shortly after
the adjournment of Congress, under the act 81
the last session providing for the exploration
and survey of the line which separates the States
OF Maine and New Hampshire from the Brit
ish Provinces; they have been actively en-
pioyed until their progress was INTERRUPTED by
/ ie inciemency OF the season, and will resume
!helr laoors as soon as practicable in the emu
ing year.
1t is understood that their respective exami-
nations will throw new light upon the subject
III controversy, and serve TO remove any erro-
neous impressions which may have been made
elsewhere prejudicial to the rights of the United
States 1t was, among other reasons, with a
view OF preventing the embarrassments which,
IN our peculiar system of government, impede
and complicate negotiations involving the terri
torlal rights Of State, that thought it my du-
ty, as you have been informed on a previous &C.
caslon, to propose TO the British Government,
through its minister at Washington, that earl,
steps should be taken to adjust the points of diff
ference on the line of boundary from the en-
trance of Lake Superior to the most northwest
ern point of the Lake of the Woods. by the ar
bitratlon OF frit ndly Power, IN conformity with
the seventh article Of the treaty of Client. No
answer has yet been returned BY the British Go.
vernment to this proposition.
With Austria, France, Prussia, Russia and
the remaining Powers of Europe, am happy
to inform you our relations continue to be of the
most friendly character. With Belgium. treaty
OF commerce and navigation, based unoH liberal
principles of reciprocity and equality, was con-
cluded IN March last, and, having been ratified
oy the Belgian Government will be duly land
before the Senate 1t is subject of conrratula-
ton that it provides for the satisfactory adjust
ment OF long standing question of controversy;
h 81
oostruct the friendly and utually advantageous
intercourse between the two nations. A mes
senger has been despatched with the Hanoyerian
Treaty to Berlin, whsre, according to stipula-
tlon, the Publications are to be exchanged / am
hapPy TO announce to you that, after many de-
lays and difficulties, treaty of Commerce and
navigation, between the United States and Por-
tusal, was concluded and signed at Lisbon. on
the 10Th OF August last, by the Observation-Disclosures
oil the two Governments. Its stipulations are
founded upon those principles of mutual liberali
ty and advantage which the the United States
have always sought to make the basis of their
intercourse with foreign Powers, and it is hoped
they will tend to foster and strengthen the COM
mercial intercourse of the two countries.
Under the appropriation of the last ses-
sion ioI Congress, an agent has been sent
to Germany, for the purpose of promoting
the interests of our tobacco trade.
The commissioners appointed under the con-
vention for the adjustment of claims of citizens
of the United States upon Mexico having met
and organized at Washington, in August last |
the papers in the possession of the Government |
relating to those claims, We're communicated TO |
the board The claims not embraced bv that |
are now the subject of negotiation
between the two governments, through the me |
dunn OF our minister at Mexico
Nothing has occurred to disturb the harmony
e Ia, 4, Al Il a
of South America. | regret, however, to be o. |
bliged to inform you that the claims OF our cit-
zens upon the late Republic of Colombia have
not yet been satisfied by the separate Govern
ments into which it has seen resolved
The charge d'affaires OF Brazil having express
sed the intention OF his Government not to pro-
long the treaty Of 1925 it will cease to be oblga-
tory upon either party ON the 18th day of De
eember, lS4l, when the extensive commercial
intercourse between the United States and that
vast empire will no longer be regulated by ex-
press stipulations.
1t affords me pleasure to communicate to you
that the Government of Chill has entered into
an agreement to indemnify the claimants in the
case of the Macedonian, for American property
seized in 1873, and to add, that information has
also been received which justiies the hope of an
early adjustment of the remaining claims upon
that Government.
The commissioners appointed in pursuance
of the convention between the United States nd
Texas, for marking the boundary between them,
have, acOordingito the last report received from
our commissioner, surveyed and established the
whole extent of the boundary north along the |
western bank Of the Sabine river, from its en- |
trance into the Gulf of Mexico to the thirty |
second degree of north latitude. The commits |
sion adjourned on the 9Th of June last, to reas-
;emble on the LIST of November for the nurnose |
IF establishing accurately the intersection of the
degree of latitude with the wes-
ern bank Of the Sabine, and the meridian line !
hence to Red river. 1t is presumed that the |
work will be concluded in the present season. |
The present sound condition Of their finances, |
md the success with which embalrassments in |
-egard to them, at times apparently insurmount-
lble, have been overcome, are matters upon |
which the people and Government OF the United |
States may well congratulate themselves. An
'verfiowing treasury, however it may be regard
ID as an evidence OF public prosperity, is seldom
conducive to the permanent welfare Of an7 peo-
lie; and experience has demonstrated IFS incom- |