Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-03-07

worth while to inquire, r wSa,, thought !,
alton has really been m n%%e'neF reslo,,
prescrbei by the treaty or po m The mode
la,n' nevertheless, from The T n,a.. Its Ger.
subsequent Information, lba, " ~. qn@tcuic
flag flying at the fort a ,"%' . Inc Spanish
w yDoIea was never struck, and ,6 Of
wnole territory has been vir, Tnp That the
} E5:s, q by Great Britain say say roIin
ms, Eng, vol. 8, p. 1919 "e0'tans
again, IN the appendix 10 tbo
c ume, a,9F giving the official 'do Sa"e vo
connected nn with dispute, he adds '0'umanls
but though England at the ov
tnree millions, extorted from ,hp of
iards a promise Of restoration III. me Span,
alon' 1t is well ascertained, frs T"p IT. l'Par,
settlement IN question never was Ina snai the
ny SPAN, nor the Spanish fac =, 'SMsloFed
ever struck; and, secondly. thp91 ., N0olka
ment has ever been subseope nj settle
tempted by England on the Calicoys,;a' at
coast Rpcndir, PIP, 40-tl. ''O'oian
The Ednburg Review of JAW l,,,
words are Wv 'acs' lis
Vancouver left Nootka sonoa
possession of the Spanards; and ' ,k u The
considerable doubt whether ,bo '"ere Is
any to restore. All we know is, ,b, were
1928, all parties, Spanards and F ,naI' IN
had abandoned Nootka Sound and =" s 5
not been re.occupied"--Rcriem NV o. y, ''as
And, finally, corroboratino eviJo ro''
The strongest and most aulhep,jc Lin nI9 o.
proof, that Nootka was never snrr "r"u, 10
to Great Britain by Spain, and ,bo T" S
regarded her exclusive RIGHT son Hpan
Nootka as admitted, is to be lon UnIG o.
very curious original Spanish man ns III
preserved in the Library of Con9ra,s' p,
entitled "ConfdentjaI instructions c f., a m
Il Kingdom of New Spain,n drawn WI ' a
Count Gigedo, former Vice Row y ~, W
1ddressed TO his successor, the N,,0 T"a
brancIIorte, dated June 80, 1874 ''4'"
In these instructions, given, il o,nb, :.
DC borne in mind, strictly as matter Hr' " "
confidential business, and not by nossiS u
n.y. Tor the sake Of effect, the ex.yica
10y says, IN paragraph III:
Moreover, It will always be necessary
nat there be, in one Of these ports eitbo',
n that OF San Francisco or BuclreIv y,
hat Of Nootka ITSELF m pursuance Of n.
lana'ag agreement wjM tie government Of
England, some vessels and aetacbmon,s If
urs, to make respected the authority Of
he sovereign" &c.
We can hardly have any thing mora
Inclusive, And equally to the point is a
ortIon Of Paragra phi 7l3; il which, after
wing II as his opinion, that it was "aIvj.
able to contract the Spanish limits as far
the straits of Fuca, Gigaio adds.
"lour EXceIency already knows how
'uch the past assertions have cost not
outstanding the good treatment which
ave the English prisoners, and the com
ensatIon | ordered to be made to them
'r all their losses, which have,in great
agree, smoothed the difficulties. A royal
termination, in conformity with these
'IncIPIes, has been received, for The abaa.
'nment Of N0otka to which service
I'VE, in consequence of the death Of the
rmer commissioner, assigned Brigadisr
on Jose Manuel de AlaUa, on account Of
e incident which might supervenc, AMI
e cautions given by the Court to observe
c conduct. of the English commissioner"
AdoIphus, above quoted, (voI, ". page
~ tells US the compensation" here al.
1ed to was fixed at $4,000
The above extract shows, that AIava
Is appointed expressly to carry into ef
It the abandonment OF Nootka; and was
'tructed in so doing, jealousy to watch
> conduct Of the English commissioner
ken in connexion with Alava's ete: to
oughton, already referred to, it leaves
lie doubt as to the fact, that Nootka was
UNFAIRLY abandoned by Spain, never
rendered to England
Such are the facts Of the case, And they
uld be equally conclusive OF our title
IN if Gray had never discovered The
Iumbia, and if Lewis and Clark had
yer explored 1t.
They are facts, too, pray you 10 ob'
We, almost Exclusively derived from BIZ
1 authorities. 1t is the man who is the
lptor, not the lion. And yet adopting
lr own version Of the story, assuming
now in force the document pat forth by
gland as the sole authentic bill otrghts
the Northwest, and interpreting It's
visions by the light Of the debates Ill
own Parliament, do not see how any
did man can resist the conclusion, that
gland has no more right to 1907 oil
south of forty nine and half than has
Emperor OF Morocco and that Inc
portion of territory in regard 10
Which she may talk Of a compromising
sion at all, is the tract from Nooika 10
Russian Boundary, about five degrees
attitude; Of which tract the centre Inc
bout FIFTY TWO; leaving US, Il we sup,
that compromise made, the WholRoi