Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-04-02
TTo BE coNTINUED.l

THE BOUNDARY QUESTION.
The correspondence between Mr.. Forsyth
Secretary Of State, and MI. Fox, British Min
ister, which has given rise to SO much con-
lecture, has been made public. Mr.. Fox, on
the 18th inst, addressed note TO Mr.. For.
sy,h, complaining Of the aggressions Of the
people of Maine upon the disputed territory
Mr.. Fox thus concludes his communication
/" Her Mnjssty's government claim and ex-
pect from the good faith Of the government
of the United States, that the people Of Maine
shall replace themselves in the situation ir
which they stood before the agreements o
last year were signed that they shall there.
fore retire from the Wiley Of the ST. John
and continue themselves to the valley Of the
Aroostook and they shall occupy that val
ley in a temporary manner only for the pur
pose, as agreed upon, Of preventing dcpre
dations aud that they shall not construc
Notifications, nor make roads or permanent
settlements.
Until this be done by the people Of the
State Of Maine, and so long rs thar people
shall persist in the present system Of aggres-
sion, Her Mnjesty's Government will feel il
their duty to make such military arrange.
ments az moy he required for the protection
Of Her Majesty's rights. And her Msjcsty's
government deem it right to declare tha,
If the result Of the unjustihable proceedings
Of the State of Maine should be collision be
tween her Majesty's troops and the people
of that State, the responsibility of all the con
sequences that inny ensue thcrefrom,, be they
what they may viii rest with tho people and
government Of the United States.
The undersigned has been instructed "a
add to this commune alton, that her Majesty's
Government arc only waiting for the detailed
report Of the British commissioners recently
employed to survey the disputed territory
which report, it was believed would be COM
pleted and delivered to her Majesiy's gov.
ernnent by the end of the present month. i
order to transmit to the government Of tho
United States reply to their last propo al
upon the subject Of the boundary negotiation
The undersigned nvnils himself of this oc.
casion TO renew to the Secretary of State o
the United States the assurance Of his dis
tingnished consideration.
| Hon. JonN FORSYTH, &C."
To this, Mr.. Forsyth replied on the 25,h.-
lie expressed his qualification that dispo-
.i,ion existed on the part Of her Majesty's
COVE TO bring the subject to deci.
sion, and his regret that no other part Of Mr.,
Fox's note was satisfactory.
Mr.. Forsyth then reviews the corrospon-
dcnce carried on, and the agreements enter
ed into upon this subject. The first between
Mr.. Fox and Mr.. Forsyth entered into on the
27th Of February, 1889, was merely provis.
ional, and had in view some subsequent and
more perma ancnt one.
Through the agency Of General Scott one
was agreed to, Oh the Odd aud 25th March
following, by which Sir John Harvey bound
himself not 10 seek without renewed instruc
tions to that effect from his Government, Il
take military possession Of the Territory, ol
to repel from il by military force the armed
part of Maine, it wos agreed by her Cover.
nor, that no attempt should be made wthou,
rcnew wed instructions from the Legislature, to
disturb by arms the province Of New Bruins.
wick in the possession Of the Madawssko
settlements, or interrupt the usual conmuni.
cations bet~ cen that and the upper provinces
As TO possession and jurisdiction, they were
to remain unchanged, each party holding, in
fact, possession Of part Of the disputed ter
ritory, but each denying the right Of the 9th.
or to do so. With that understanding Maine
was, without unnecessary delay, 10 wiihdra "
her military force, leaving only, under land
agent, a small civil posse, armed or unarmcd,
to protect the ,imber recently cut, and to
prevent farther depredations.
In the complaints of lnfractions Of the
agreements Of the State Of Maine, addressed
TO the undersigned, Mr.. Fox has assumed d
two positions, which are not authorized by
'he terms OF Those agreements, viz: 1st, nd
uniting the right Of Maine to main,sin a civil
posse in the disputed territory for the pur-
poses stated in the agreement, he does so
with the restriction that the action Of the
posse was to be confined within certain lin.
its; and I'd, by making the advance of the
Maine posse into The valley of the Upper st.
John the ground Of his complaint Of enc roach
ment upon the Modawaska settlement, he
assumes to extend the limits of that settle
nent beyond those IT occupied at the date OF
the agreement
The United States cannot acquiesce in
IShHSt VI tuooc pOSitious.
| In the first place, nothing is found in the
agreement, subscribed to by Governor Fair
icldand SIR John Harvey, de e6ning any limits
IN the disputed territory within which the
operations Of the civil posse of Maine were
to be circumscribed. The task of preserving
the timber recently cut, and Of preventing
farther deprodaiiOns within the disputed ter
riory, was assigned to the state Of Maine
after her military force should have been
Withdrawn from il and it was to be accom-.
Pitched by civil posse, armed or unarIncd,
which was TO continue in the territory, aud Ia
operate in every part of il where its agency y
might be required to protect the timber al.
ready cut, and prevent any further dcpreda.
tons, without any limitation whatever, or any
restrictions, except such as might be con-
siructed into on attempt to disturb by arms
the Province Of New Brunswick in her pos.
session Of the Madawaska settlement, or in
terrupt the usual communication between the
Provinces. 1t is thus in the exercise of o
Legitimate right, and in the conscientious
discharge Of an obligation imposed upon her
by solemn compact, that the state Of Maine
has done those acts which have given rise to
complaints for which no adequate cause is
perceived. The undersigned feels confiden,
that when those nets shall have been consid.
cred by her Mojesty's Government at home,
as explained in his no;e TO Mr.. Fox, of the
24th Of December last, and in connection
with tho forcVoipU rcmarks thev will no