Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-08-02

very, carried their claims much further Here I;nsanced
sufficient for my purpose and pertinent 10 il, the terms II
which many Of the royal charters and letters paen Ina ~
granted by the Crown in England 10 individuals poceeno
to the discovery or settlement Of countries on he Ame
can continent amongst Others those from Elizabeth n 7s
to Sir Humphrey Gilbert, and in 1884, to Sir Walter Ra
leigh those from James to Sir Thomas Gstes II lana ~,
1907, and the Georgia charter Of 1882 All these
from which produced, comprehended arrange Of country v
ustiyng my remark By the words Of the last grant I;
passed all territories along the seacoas from the river S.
vannah the southern Of another great river
called the Alaiamaha, and westward, from the Aeads az the
said riuer in direct line to the South Seas. To show
that Britain not the only European nation who, in her
territorial claims this continent had had eye the rule
of assuming be the est boundaries
cited the charter Of Louis XIV. Croza by which all the
country drained By emtyg directly indirectly
into the Mississippi, is declared to be compehended under
the name and within the limits Of Louisiana
I" If Britain had put forth claims the Northwest
Coast founded prior occupation, before the Nooka Sound
contest s less could she have established any,
markell at any period, founded prior discovery Claims
Of the latter class belonged wholly Spain, and now
queny to the United States The superior title Of Spain
this ground well Others was, indeed capable Of demon
sraion Russia had acknowledged in 1900, the State
papers of the Nootka Sound controversy would show The
ppansn the British that
occasion expressly asserted that notwithstanding all the at
tempted encroachmcnts upon the Spanish coasts of the Pacific
ocean, Spain ha preserved her possessions there entire
possessions which she had constantly and before all Europe
that and other occasions declared extend to as high
least the Goth degree Of north latitude The very first ar
Gle Of the Nootka Sound convention attesed said the s
penony OF her title for whilst by it the nations Of Europe
generally were allowed to make settlements that coast it
was only for purposes Of trade with the natives thereby
Guiding the right of any exclusive colonial establishments
for other purposes AS any claim on the part Of Britain
under the voyage of Captain Cook remarked that this was
sufficiently superseded passng by every thing else by the
Journal Of the Spanish expedition from San Bias, in l775
kept by Don Antonio Mauel for Of which re-
erred the British penpotentares to the work Of DANES Bar
rngon British author In that expedition, consisting Of
gae and schooner fitted by the Viceroy of Mexico the
Northwest Coast visited in latitude As, AZ 49, So 3d.
&c. 81, and So, Of which points, there good
for believing, had been explored SEEM
up to that day, by any navigator Of Great Britain There
too, sad the voyage Of Juan Pees, prior IT'S that
Of Aguiar, in 1901, who explored that latitude As
that Of de Fuca in 1892, who explored in latitude As Civ
ing the name which they still BORE the straits in that la
ude without going through much longer list of other early
Spanish navgatos in that sea- whose discoveries
fessedy Of nature put out Of those of all other
tons finished by saying that in the opinion Of my Gov
ernnent the title of the United States the whole of that
coast, from latitude ~ to far north latitude so,
therefore superior to that Of Britain, any other Power
first through the proper claim of the United States by disco
very and settlement and, secondly, standing in the
place Of spain and holding in their hands all her title
'tNeither my remarks my authorities Of which have
endeavoed to present outline, made the impression upon
the British penipotentaes which DESTROYS that they
should have produced They repeated their animated deua
of the title Of the United States alleged have been
qued by themselves, enlarsng and insisting upon their
jectons to it, have already stated them Nor they
less decided in their renewed mpeachmens Of the title of
Spain They said that it well known them what had
formerly been the pretensions of Spain absolute sovereignty
and dominion the South Seas and the shores Of
America which they washed but that hsse wers pretenons
which Britain had admitted On the contrary. she had
constantly and strcnuousy resisted them They referred
the Of the British Minister the Court Of spain, Of
May 10th, 1870, in which Britain had only asserted full
right to an uninterrupted commerce and navigation in the Pa
cc but also that Of forming, with the of the natives
whatever establishments she thought proper the Northwest
Coast in parts already occupied by other nations This
had always been the doctrine of Great Britain and from
thing that DUE in her estimation, to other Powers,
called upon her in any degree depart As to the alleged
prior discoveries Of Spain all along that coast Britain did not
admit them but with great qualification She could adj
mere spanish
the coast at particular points, where this capable Of
being subsanaed the fact, without any subsequent
efficient Of sovereignty settlement following the part
Of Spain, sufficient exclude all other nations from that
portion Of the globe Besides they said, the
of prior discovery that coast at least far the 18th
degree Of north latitude, Britain herself had claim all
other nations Here they referred to brakes expedition in
1875 who they said explored that coast, the part Of
England, from 81 4s north, making formal claim to these
limits in the Of Elizabeth and giving the Of New
Albion to all the country which they comprehended. Was
this they asked to be eputcd nothing the comparison Of
prior discoveries and did it take in large part Of
the very claimed by the United States Of prior
discovery their side Such the character Of their
marks this part of the title In connexion with them they
called my attention tho report Of select committee Of the
House Of Representatives in April last the subject Of Co
lumba river There letter from General Jesup in this
port, adopted by the committee part Of the report, and
which, the British penpoenianes said had acquired inn
porance in the eyes Of their Government from that fact They
commented upon several passages Of this letter. newspaper
copy Of which they held in their hands, but chiefly that
part which contains ntmaton that removal from
rtory Of all British subjects allowed trade the
Of the Columbia might become necessary
the part of the United States the convention Of
1878 had expired. OF this inimation the British pcnipo
especially upon her guard arriving the document did, at
when friendly negotiation pending between the
Powers for the adjustment Of their relative and conflicting
claims to that entire district Of country Had any know
ledge, they asked, Of this document