Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-05-23

"his arbitrary proceeding besides being direct violation
OF the treaty 794 is highly detrimental the private
Canada merchants for excludes them from coun-
try where they have been carrying trade successfully
many years without interruption from the Spanards having
ery pushed their commercial posts the banks OF the
Missouri and augmented the sale OF their goods in Louisiana
the ofabout forty Dy Thousand pounds annually
This is the complaint exclusion from Louisiana by the
United States Governor of that province We took posses
sion of upper Louisiana in March, 1904 the complaint
made in London in 1906 consequently, the exclusion
enforced very after took possession. The question
Is, upon what authority did the Governor act in making
this exclusion and what line did ne extend it Doubtless
by order Of his Government but II is good to be
tain and in the case Of Mr. GeeIhows eyershadowing a
honty, backed it is by the Senam from Michigan it be-
necessary to prove every thing even that Governor
of upper Louisiana had the authority of bis Government for
the boundaries Of his province. fortunately the first Go
vernon Of upper Louisiana Of letters well Of
the sword and employed his leisure hours in drawing up
history Of the country which he was sent to govern. Il
Major Amos Soddard, who afterwards lost his life at Fort
Megs during the late with Great Britain. In his useful
work. modesty termed s'Shetces Of Louisiana" he thus
speaks Of the northern boundary of his province
sThe Of Croza, BY the terms Of the patent,
tended to the utmost limit OF Louisiana in that quarter which,
by the treaty OF Utrecht n7 liked at the 49h degree
This Major Stoddards of this northern boundary
and Of the line from which andy which he excluded British
traders from Louisiana. He did by virtue of the line Of
Utrecht and British Minister in that day did would
deny its existence, impugn its validity. Lords Holland
and Aukland to whom the complaint Of the Canadian
chants made refused to present officially Minis
tcrs They do not in fact appear to have spoken word
the subject done any thing than present their
rial to Ministers. Certain is, the complaint remained
without redress.
But the efforts Of the British fur traders did not stop at this
repusc The next year the Earl of Selkk, head of the
Hudson Bay Company went to London to renew the COM
plants Of the fur traders in formal manner and
claim their restoration 10 the privileges Of trade within the
limits Of Louisiana That gentleman head Of the Hudson
Bay Company-as founder Of the colony Lake Wnipec
the person injured by the exclusion of British traders
to knoy honth
rights and wrongs and in bringing these before the British
Ministry for redress ought to be supposed state his
strongly truth and justice would allow. He does but
not strongly enough to deny the fact OF the line of Ago under
the treaty of Utrecht That line doing him all the
chief the short remedy deny its existence it could
be denied On the contrary, he admits the fact Of former
existence and only against present existence and
sent applicability His argument is, rs that the treaty Of
Utrecht not revived by the treaty Of Amens Of 1901
and, therefore, that it abrogaed by and secondly
that the long occupation Of the St Peters river and Of the
Missouri above the Mandan villages, without objection from
the Spaniard admission of their right trade in
Louisiana and should be conclusive upon the United States
In memorial Lord Holland, in 1907 he presents these
views at much LENGTH and susans them by arguments Of
which these specimens
Understanding that you present engaged in settling
with the American Plenpotentaries the boundaries between
the province OF Louisiana and the British American domnon
beg leave to call your attention to some suggestions To
the upper OF Missouri Britain has preferable claim About
latitude Az the British traders, coming from the Hudson
Bay territories maintained traffic with the Mandan Indians
knowledge of the of the Missouri and they had
down the OF that river from the Mandans up to tn
the journey Of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke The claim Of
Great Britain the upper Missouri country equally valid
and rests the ground her claim Nooka Sound
and the country west OF the Rocky Mountains the Pacific
Ocean. There abundance OF grounds for denying
that there rights the American Government found
its claim the stpulaiions of the treaty of Utrecht
The stpulatons Of the treaty of Utrecht limits Of
the Hudson Bay territories do bear all upon the ques
ton The limits fixed by that treaty for Canada not
Al AIlnN mo nnIy hrrN In chs that
the treaty of Utrecht having been renewed the peace Of
Amens, would not have been available France, She
had remained at with and possession Of Louisiana
Thus argues the Earl of Sekk, admitting the fact of boun
diaries fixed under the treaty Utrecht and only arguing against
the present existence and applicability Of these boundaries
Lord Holland adopted of these he presented the
paper without comment, the American Ministers, who, in
sending home their Government characterized
idle paper, and took further notice of il. II was, in
fact idle paper but not quite idle enough in any Of
the word TO deny the work If the commssaes under the
treaty of Utrecht
But to go with the proofs.
In the year 1906 being the second year after the acqus
ton OF Louisiana President Jefferson sent Ministers to Ma
dnd Messrs. Monroe and Charles Pnckney) to adus the
eastern and southwestern boundaries with her and doing
the principles which had governed the settlement of the
northern boundary OF the province became proper illus
aton Of their IDEAS They quoted these principles and gave
the line of Utrecht the example; and this to Don Pedro
Cevalos, OF the most accomplished statesmen of Europe
They say to him
Iii believed that this principle has been admitted and
ed invariably since the discovery OF America respect to
their possessions there, by all the European Powers par
uculary illustrated by the puaon Of their most important
treaties concerning those and the practice under
hem viz the treaty of Utrecht in i73 and that OF Paris in
1865 In conformity with the tenth article of the first
toned treaty. the boundary between Canada and Louisiana
the sde and the Hudson's Bay and Northwestern Coma
MES the other established by commssares by line
to commence at cape promontory the So 81
north lattude thence soutwestwardy to latitude 40
north from the equator and along that line indefinitely
ward Since that time, attempt has been made to extend
the limits of Louisiana Canada to the north Of that line
of those companies the south Of it. by purchase conquest
grants from the Indians
This what Messrs Monroe and Charles Pinckney said TO
Don Pedro Cevaosa Minister who be supposed TO be
well acquainted with the treaties which settled the bounda
res Of the late Spanish province Of Louisiana with
the treaties which settle the boundaries Of the United States
The line of Utrecht the very words which carry from
the Lake Of ID the Pacific Ocean, and which
fine the British hepoh and the French and Spanish
the soutb/o that line, quoted to Mr. Cevalos fact
which Ne and all the world knew. He received such
and thus Spanish authority in aid of British, French
and American, t vndcae rights and the truth Of history
Mr. PresideDy when man is struggling in just cause
he generally gets help, aud often from unforeseen and
expected quarters SO il has happened with in this affair
of the Utrecht treaty great many hands have FASTENED to
bear evidence Of the truth in this and the head Of
these opporune testimonies place the letter Of gentleman
who besides his great authority, gives reference to
another who, from his long political position in country
the powers OF his mind and the habits Of his life happens 10
be, of all living the who shed most light upon
the subject. ] speak Of Colonel Timothy Pckcrng-the
friend and companion of Washington-his Quartemaser
General during the fthe Rcvouonhis Postmaster Gen
ea Secretary War; and Secretary OF State during his Pres
dencya member of this body at the time the treaty ati