Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-12-31

"tluCt TIC diICGtlOu 81 Que OOlHcls minus
their appearance also from Macao, purpor-
ting to be the property of the (British)
King Georges Sound Company. These
vessels, together with a vessel built on the
coast by Meare's people, ca led the North
west America, were seized by Martinez,
the same year, and the Argonaut, with
Conelt on board, was sent TO San Bias for
adjudication.
The Condo de Revillagigedo, then vice.
ROY, decided that the seizure was lawful
and for good cause but ordered the yes
sells to be released as an act of comfy to-
wards England, and because of the al
lodged ignorance of the parties in regard
to the rights of Spain-of all which Spain
herself, in the spirit of candor and fair
dealing, gave the first information to the
English government. Meares, however,
Immediately repaired TO England, aud, up
on The representations mad, by him-re
presentations now known and universally
seen TO be grossly aud shamefully false in
all essential particulars--the British 90
vernment decided upon war, unless ample
satisfaction should be made by the Spanish
or spirit TO fight with Eng land, and accor :
ingly submitted without reserve to the de-
mands of the British ministry. The re-
suit was the convention of 1890, called Of
the Escural, or more commonly Of Noolka
This convention provides among other
things that the respective subiectsof Spain
and Great Britain shall no. oe disturbed or
molested either in navigating or carrying
on their fisheries in the Pacific ocean, or
in the South seas, or in landing on The
coasts of III Sc seas and places not alrea-
dy cupied, for The purpose Of carr inc
on their commerce with the natives Of
the country, or of making settlements
there: II being subioined thai in any set
Elements TO be made BY either party, the
subjects of the other shall have free access
and shall carry on their trade without mo-
lestation.
Under this convention, Great Britain
claims the right, by concession from Spain,
now TO make settlements in Oregon, as
against the United States SO far as we hold
from Spain.
The United States reply that the condi
tons of this convention are nothing bui
commercial slipulaiions of temporary &c.
cupancy for the purpose OF fishing or ira
ding, leaving the Spanish sovereignty un
impaired or at least only in abeyance; anC
that upon The face of it, also, the conven
ton IS Of that class of treaties which CEASE
with war; and it was accordingly eNtin
gplshed by the war, which soon afterwards
broke out between Britain and SPAN.
Such are the claims and pretensions 0
the two governments.
On this part Of the Subject, then, th'
questions stands in brief thus:
We of the Uuited States have, as w
think good title to The UhoIe CT Oregon
from 42 deg. up to 81 deg, 80 ain. SO SET
/. In our own right
i 3. Under Spain.
3. Under France.
Great Britain, on the other hand, nei
Their has no: pretends TO have any It'll
whatever 10 any part Of Oregon, bnl claim
right 10 treat Oregon as aboriginal vii
country, and to settle it in common wit
all the world, or at least the joint RICH
under concess on from Spain, make SCI
; dement's in that country, in common vii
Spain, or with Us, the successors Of Speir
We of The United States exclude fhi
pretension of Great Britain: first, by sh "
ing our general title; and second, by dc
] nsing that Great Britain now possess an
: rights whatsoever under the Nootka Coz
: venlion
. At all events, Great Britain's Who'll
claim is now reduced 10 her rights (if any
e under the Northern Convention for tha
: convention puts an end, as against Eng
n land, to the pretence of Oregon being abc
riglnal territory, since the convention itse
Q recognizes (impliedly) the sovereign RICH
: Of Spain.
!: During The many years the Greg
r question has existed, the United Stat
r have, as before stated, at adj times man
]. tested lair and amicable spirit towar
n Greai Britain, especially in repeated {
], iers to divide the disputedter-ito.y betwee
If us in almost equal parts, by the parallel
40 deg, noswith landing the comparable
l. weakness of The rights Of Great Britai
D These offers of the United Stales we
n based upon the supposHion thai the paraa
le OF 40 deg. had been established BY Il
4 treaty Of Utrecht, by Frame and Enalan
I as the northern limit Of Louisiana up
in which snpposition, in the year 1918, t
line between Louisiana and the Hudson
Of Bay Company, on this side of the Reei
N Mountains, was fixed by The British a
or American governments. When came
"a investigate the subject, eight or nine yel
n. ago in Congress, / discovered t. my =
% prise, that no evidence existed, in a
an work Of history, or ans Diplomatic pap
e. that The line had ever been fixed, in |
OF manner supposed, under the treaty