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


pointed commandment oil Nootka. From
Is this gentleman he learnt that he (Alava)
D. had been appointed "for the particular
Q purpose Of finishing the pending nego
d tialion." But no instructions from Eng.
!. land had reached Vancouver; and he left
If Nootka without ellocting anything
r Two months later, at Monterey, Van.
J. couver says that AIava received instruc
:. tons, of which he confded part to the
J. British navigator; and these instructions,
: SO Vancouver tells US, would enable an
amicable adjustment "nearIy on the terms
: offered to Senior Quadra in September
l 1892" But still, no instructions to Van.
couver; who accordingly returned to Eng
land, leaving the whole matter open as
, before.
So far, then, it is confessed, that for
more than four years after the signature
OF convention wrung from Spain BY
menace and lavish warIike preparation,
she remained in peaceful and undsturbed
! possession of the entire settlement of
Nootka. Nor is therNany evidence, I'M
less we consider such d vague reDort all
Iuded II BY an undistinguished navigator,
that one1oot Of land in that Sound ever
was surrendered by Spain to England
Captain Broughton, in his "Voyage TO the
Pacific" in 1866, tells US, that, in
March 1896, he made the harbor of Moot
ka; and he adds:
81 sent an officer into the cove for in.
Itelllgence; who returned at noon, and re.
ported there were no vessels in it; and
that the spot on which the Spanish settle,
ment tormer y stood ,oas noa0 occupied by
an Indian cllage. - Voyage, p. so.
He then goes on to say:
"MarquIla, the chief of Noolka, paid
JUS a visit here; and he and CIupanutch,
another chief, brought me several letters
dated March 1895, which informed me,
that Captain Vancouver sailed from Mon
terey the LIST December 1894 for Eng
land: and that the Spaniards had deliv-
cred up the port of Nootka, &c, TO Lieu {
tenant Pierce Of the Marines, agreeabIy II
TO the mode Of restitution settled between
the two courts, A letter from the Span
ish officer, BrIgader Alava informed me I
of their sailing in March 1895, from i
hence.n b
"Severol letters" Captain Broughton s
says, from whom we are not even in, |
formed and Senior Aava mentions moth, o
ing of the surrender, bu: only that the Il
opanards had left the place.
A recent English historical work off
with the name of the Queen p
and most of the nobility on its list of sub 9
'crlberS, varies this story, thus: 81
at may be mentioned here, that. in a
1895, this territory pas formally taken
possession Of by Lieutenant Pierce OF the n
British navy, and received the name "
IF King Georges Sound "-Adolphus's q
Reign Of George Ill, poI. 4. p. 500. p,
Nothing about a surrender, here. ItIrc
was formally taken possession of named :; de
very easy thing for Lieutenant Pierce de
VI any one else to do, after the Spaniards pl
lad vacated the settlement. dc
Whence this "LIeutenant Pierce Of the hl
Marines sprang all of a sudden, does not 10
ppoar. Vancouver says not a word, in d
lis voyage, OF leaving any one at Nootka tn
IND, on the face OF it, it is a thing most tn
Unlikely, that Eng should entrust the tn
Ultimate settlement of dispute that cost
Ter millions, and had bafiled the Diploma 50
y OF Vancouver, to simple Lieutenant Luz
t Marines
but further, even conceding all these We
larlng lmprobabilties, we neither know fec
that amount Of land was restored, nor ms
nder what conditions, or limitations. the
- surrender is alleged to have been Ia
'ade. Nor could the simple surrender Br
any buildings and tracts of land" lit
lere, after the fact, that Noolka was, vo
October, 1890, already occupied by SUI
pam" nor the express stipuIatons OF the
invention, that north Of that point of wo
ccupatlon only, was the coast TO be free eve
" settlement to both Powers. Co
Yet even this is not the entire case ne,
wo hlstorlans-;he only two have found
hose works date within a few years of ser
lis transaction, one French authority. tisI
le other British, agree in denying there sou
as any restitution whatever. Sepur, the
10 Elder, French ambassador successive as
at the courts Of ST. Petersburg, Berlin. En-,
I'D Vienna, writing, in 1901, a "politicaI on
cture OF Europe from 1886 TO 1862 pro
US: her
"EngIand' under the himsy pretence OF can
claiming some con.raband ships taken Ems
the Spanards on the west coast of soil
orth America, threatened to declare the
IF against Spain" = "France aC- ONLY
short hesitation, Notwithstanding the to v
'order Of her finances, determined 20 diyi
pport Spain against the English. And the
e cabinet Of London intimdated BY this of |
expected resolution, postponed its am is al
Ious projects: contented itself ,UiA the pose