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CORRESPONDENCE Between the Hon. John Forsyth, and the Hon. II. S. Fox. Mr. Fox to Mr. Forsyth. Washington, March 13, 1840. The undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni| potcntiary, has been instructed by his Government to make the following communication to the Secretary of State of the United States in reference to the boundary negotiation, and the affairs of the disputed territory. Her Majesty's Government have had under their consideration the official note addressed to the undersigned by the Secretary of State of the United States, on the 24;h of last December, in reply to a note from the undersigned of the 2d November linnr ;,, which the unlersirrned pro - - c tested, in the name of his Government, against the extensive system of aggression pursued by the people of the State of Maine within the disputed territory, to the prejudice of the ri?hts of Great Britain, and in manifest violation of the provisional agreements entered into between the authorities of the two countries at the beginning of the last year. Her Majesty's Government have also had their attention directed to the public messnge transmitted by the Governor of Maine to the Legislature of the State, on the 3d of January of the present year. Upon a consideration of the statements contained in these two official documents, her Majesty's Government regret to find that the principal acts of encroachment, which were denounced and complained of on the part of Great Britain, so far from cither being disproved,on discontinued, or satisfactorily explained, by the authorities of the Slate of Maine, are, on the contrary, persisted in, and publicly avowed. Iler Majesty's Government have consequently instructed the undersigned once more formally to protest against those acts of encroachment and aggression. Her Majesty's Government claim and expect, from the good-faith of the Government of the U iled States, that the people of Maine shall replace themselves in the situation in which they stood before the .nrrenmpiiis of last vear were signed ; that *"b' j 0 they shall, therefore, retire from the valley of the St. John, and confine themselves to the valley of the Aroostook; that they shall occupy that valley in a temporary manner only, for the purpose, as agreed upon, of preventing depredations; and that they shall not construct fortifications, nor make roads or permanent settlements. , Until this be done by the people of the State of Maine, and so long as that people shall persist in the present system of aggression, her Majesty'sGovernmcnt will l'eel it their duty to make such military arrangements as many be required for the protection of her Majesty's rights. And Iter Majesty's Government deem it right to declare that, if the result of the unjustifiable proceedings of the State of Maine should be collision between her Majesty's troops and the people of that State, the responsibility of all the consequences that may ensue therefrom, be they what they ?:u . ?:.u .1. - 1 1 may, Will usi mill niu jicupiu auu WUIcrnment of the United States. The undersigned has been instructed to add to this communication, that her Majesty's Government are only waiting for the detailed report of the British commissioners recently employed to survey the disputed territory, which report, it was believed, would be completed and delivered to her Majesty's Government by the end of the present month, in order to transmit to the Government of the United States a reply to their last proposal upon the subject of the boundary negotiation. The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to renew to the Secretary of Stale of the United States the assurance of his distinguisded consideration. II. S. FOX. lion. J oiln Forsyth, &c. &c. &,c. Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Fox: DEPARTMEnT OF STATE, Washington. March 85, 1840. The undersigned, Secretary 01 state oi the United States, acknowledges to have received Mr.Fox's communication of the 13th instant, in reference to the boundary negotiation and the affairs of the disputed territory. The information given in the closing part of it, that a raply to the last } roposition of the United States upon the subject of the boundary may be expected V. - -*r y iin a short time, is highly gratifying to the J President, who has, however, giveivdirections to the undersigned in making this acknowledgment, to accompany it with the expression of his profound regret, that Mr. Fox's note is in no other respect satisfactory. After the arrangements which, in the beginning of last year, were entered into on the part of the two governments with regard to the occupation of the disputed territory, the President had indulged the hope that the causes of irritation which had grown out of this branch of the subject could have been removed. Relying on the disposition of Maine to co-operate with the Federal Government in all that * * * *" * _ 4 T_ - could lead to a pacinc adjustment ui me principal question, the President felt confident that his determination to maintain order on the border would be fully carried out: he looked upon all apprehensions of designs by the people of Maine to take possession of the territory as without adequate foundation, deeming it improbable that, on the eve of an amicable adjustment of the question, any portion of the American people would, without cause and without object, jeopard the success of the negotiation and endanger the peace of the country. A troublesome, irritating, and comparatively unimportant, because subordinate subject, being thus disposed of, the President hoped that the parties would be left free at once to discuss; and finally adjust the principal question. In this he has been disappointed.? While the proceedings of her Majesty's Government at home have been attended with unlooked-for delays, its attention has been diverted from the great subject in controversy by repeated complaints, imputing to a portion of the people of the United States designs to violate the engagements of their Government, designs which have never been entertained, and which Mr. Fox knows would receive no countenance from this Government. It is to be regretted, that at this late hour, so much misapprehension still exists on the side of the British Government as to the object and obvious meaning of the existing arrangements respecting the disputed territory. The ill success which appears to have attended the efforts made by the undersigned to convey, through Mr. Fox, to her Majesty's Government more correct impressions respecting them, calls for a recurrence to the subject; and a brief review of the I correspondence which has grown out of, it, may tend to remove the erroneous! views which prevail as to the manner in which the terms of the arrangements refurred to have been observed. As Mr. Fox had no authority to make any agreement respecting the exeicise of. jurisdiction over the disputed territory, that between him and the undersigned, of the 27th of February, 1839, had for its object some provisional arrangement lor the restoration and preservation of peace in the territory. To accomplish this ob-, ject, it provided that her Majesty's officers ! should not seek to expel, by military force,1 the armed parly which had been sent by Maine into tnc district bordering on the' Restook river; and that, on the other j hand, the Government of Maine would | voluntarily, and without needless delay, j withdraw beyond the bounds of the dis-1 puled territory any armed force then within them. Besides this, the arrangement had other objects?the dispersion of notorious trespassers, and the protection of public property from depredation. In case future necessity should arise for this, the the oporation was to be conducted by concert, jointly or separately, according to agreement between the Governments of Maine and New Brunswick. In this iastmentioned respect the agreement looked to some further arrangement between Maine and New Brunswick.? Through the agency of General Scott, one was agreed to on the 23d and 25th " t /. it ? ? L. L:.L C:. UI,h ! ot Marcn ionowing, uy wmcu on juium Harvey bound himself not to seek, with-; out renewed instructions to that effect from his Government, to take military possession of the territory, or to expel from it, by military force, the armed civil posse, or the troops of Maine. On the part of Maine, it was agreed bjr her Gov- j ernor that no attempt should be made, without renewed instructions from the Legislature, to disturb by arms the province of New Brunswick in the possession of the Madavvaska settlement or interrupt the usual communications between that and the upper provinces. As to possession and jurisdiction, they were to remain unchanged; each party holding, in fact, possession of part of the disputed territory, but each denying the right of the other to do so. With that understanding Maine was, without unnecessary delay, to withdraw her military force, leaving only, under a land agent, a small civil posse, armed or unarmed, to protect the timber recently cut, and to prevent further depre dations. In the complaints of infractions of the agreements by the State of Maine, addressed to the undersigned, Mr. Fox has assumed two positions which are not authorized by the terms of those agreements: 1st Admitting the right of Maine to maintain a civil posse in the disputed territory for the purposes stated in the agreement, he does so with the rcstiiction. that the action of the posse was to be confined within certain limits; and 2d. By making the advance of the Maine posse into the valley of the upper St. John, the ground of his complaint of encroachment upon the Madawaska settlement, he assumes to extend the limits of that settlement beyond those occupied at the date of-the agreement. ' The United Sfate; cannot acquiesce in either of these positions. Tn the first place, nothing is found in the agreement subscribed to by Governor Fairfield and Sir John Harvey, defining any limits in the disputed territory within which the operations of the civil posse of Maine were to be circumscribed. The task of preserving the timber recently cut, and of preventing further depredations, within the disputed territory, was assigned to the State of Maine, after her military force should have been withdrawn from it; and it was to be accomplished by a civil posse, armed or unarmed, which was to continue in the territory, and to operate in every part of it where its agency might be required, to protect the timber already cut, and prevent further depredations, without any limitation what ever, or any restrictions, except sucu as might be construed into an attempt to disturb, by arms, the Province of New Brunswick in her possession of the Madawaska settlement, or interrupt the usual communication between the Provinces. It is thus, in the exercise of a legitimate right, and in the conscientious discharge of an obligation imposed upon her by a solemn compact, that the State of Maine has done those acts which have given rise to complaints, for which no adequate cause is perceived. The undersigned feels confident that when those acts shall have been considered by her Majesty's Government at home, as explained in his note to Mr. Fox, of the 24th of December last, and in connexion with the foregoing rema>ks, they will no longer be viewed as calculated to excite the apprehensions of her Majesty's Government that the faith of existing arrangements is to be broken on the part of the United States. " With regard to the second position assumed by Mr. Fox, that the advance of the Maine posse along the valley of the Restook to the mouth of Fish river, and into the valley of the upper St. John, is at variance with the terms and spirit of the agreemeuts; the undersigned must observe that, if at variance with any of their provisions, it could only be with those which secure her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick against any attempt to disturb the possession of the Madawaska settlements, and to interrupt the usual communications between ixew oruaswitiv and the upper provinces. The agreement could only have reference to the Madawaska settlements, as confined within their actual limits at the time it was subscribed. The undersigned, in his note of the 24th of December last, staled the reasons why the mouth of Fish river, and the portion of the valley of the St. John through which it passes, could in no proper sense be considered as embraced in the Madawaska settlements. Were the United Slates to admit the pretension set up on the part of Great Britain, to give to the Madiwaska settlements a degree of constructive extension that might, at this time, suit the purposes of her Majesty's colonial authorities, those settlements might soon be made, with like justice, to embrace any portions of the disputed territory: and the right given to the Province of New Brunswick to occupy them temporarily, and for a special purpose, might, by inference quite as plausable, give the jurisdiction exercised by her Majesty's J 1 " 1 4 ?? ^"1?1 autnoruiss an exieni which nuum the present state of the question, so Iong as it could be maintained, equivelent to a decision on the merits of the whole controversy in favor of Great Britain. If the small settlement at Madawaska, on the north side of the St. John, means the whole valley of that river?if a boom across the Fish river, and a station of a small posse on the south side of the St John, at the mouth of Fish river, is a disturbance of that settlement, which is twenty-five miles below?within the meaning of the agreement, it is difficult to conceive that there are any limitations to the pretensions of her Majesty's Government under it, or how the State of Maine could exercise the preventative power with regard to trespassers, which was, on her part, the great object of the temporaryarrangement. The movements of British troops lately witnessed in the disputed territory, and the erection of Military works for their protection and accommodation, of which authentic information, recently received at the Department ol ? - - . !._?!_ p State, lias been communicnteu 10 mr. ru.\, impart a still graver aspect to the matter immediately under consideration. The fact of those military operations, established beyond a doubt, left unexplained, or unsatisfactorily accounted for, by Mr. Fox's note of the 7th instant, continues an abiding cause of complaint, on the part of the United States, against her Majesty's colonial agents, as inconsistent with arrangements whose main object was to divest a question already sufficiently perplexed and complicated, from such embarrassments as those with which the proceedings of the British authorities cannot (ail to surround it. If, ns Mr. Fox must admit, the objects of the late agreements were the removal of all military force, and the preservation of the property from further spoliations, leaving the possession and jurisdiction as they stood before the State of Maine found itself eomnelled to act against the tres-i - - - -- | - W | passers, ihe President cannot but consider that the conduct of the American local authorities strongly and most favorably contrasts with that of the colonial authorities of her Majesty's Government. While the one, promptly withdrawing its military force, has confined itself to the use of the small posse, armed as agreed upon, and has done no act not necessary to the accomplishment of the conventional ob-1 jecie, every measure taken or indicated , by the other party is essentially military | in its character, and can be justified only j bv a well-founded apprehension that hostilities must ensue. With such feeling and convictions, the J President could not see, without painful, surprise, the attempt of Mr. Fox, under instruction from his Government, to give to the existing state of things a character1 not wrrrantcd by the friendly disposition I of the (Jniled States, or the conduct of j the authorities and people of Maine?| much more is he surprised to find it olj leged as a ground for strengthening a military force and preparing for a hostile col** *?1i kt Innto A r Q JlSlOfl WllTl UJB uiiai iiicu litiiauiiuino v< u friendly State, pursuing, within their own borders, their peaceful occupations, or exerting themselves in compliance with their agreements to protect the property in dispute from unauthorized spoliation. The President wishes that he could dispel the fear that these dark forebodings can be realized. Unless her Majesty's Government shall forthwith arest all military inlerence in the question?unless it shall apply to the subject more determined efforts than have hitherto been made to bring the dispute to a certain and pacific adjustment, the misfortunes predicted by Mr. Fox in the name of his Government, may most unfortunately happen. But uo apprehension of the consequences alluded to by Mr. Fox can be permitted to divert the Government and people of the United Stales fram the performance of their duty to the State of Maine. That duly is as simple as it is imperative. The construe tion which is given by her lo the treaty 01 1783 has been, again and again, and in the most solemn manner, asserted also by the Federal Government, and must be maintained, unless Maine freely ccnsenls lo a new boundary, or unless that construction of the treaty is found lo be erroneous by the decision of a disinterested and indepehdent tribunal, selected by the parlies for its final adjustment. The President, on assuming the duties of his station, avowed his determination, all other means of negotiation failing, to submit a proposition to the Government of Great Britain to refer the decision of the question once more to a third party. In all the subsequent steps which have been taken upon the subject by his direction, he has been actuated by the same spirit. Neither his disposition in the mat-! tcr, nor his opinion as to the propriety of that course, has undergone any change.? Should the fulfilment of his wishes be defeated either by an unwillingness on the part of her Majesty's Government to meet the offer of the United Slates in the spirit in which it is made, or from adverse circumstances of any description, the President will, in any event, derive great satisfaction from consciousness that no ef ' fort on his part has been spared to bring the question to an amicable conclusion, and that there has been nothing in the conduct either of the Government and people of the United States, or of the State of Maine, to justify the employment of of her Majesty's forces as intli: cated by Mr. Fox's letter. The President cannot, under such circumstances, apprehend that the responsibility for any consequences which may unhappily ensue, will by the just judgment of an impartial world, be imputed to the United States. The undersigned avails himself, Arc. &c. JOHN FORSYTH. To the Hon. II. S. Fox, Gc. Mr. Fox to Mr. Forsytli. Washington, March 26, 1849. The undersigned, her Britanic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, has had the honor to receive the official note of yesterday's date addressed I to him by Mr. Forsyth, Secretary of State of the United Slates, in reply to a note I dated the 13th instant, wherein the undersigned, in conformity with instructions received from his Government, had anew formally protested against the acts of encroachment and aggression which are still persisted in by armed bands in the employment of the State .of Maine within certain portions of the disputed territory. It will be the* dutv of the undersigned ' ? n.r_ ** immediately to transmit mr. 1'uisuus note to her Majesty's Government in England, and, until the statements and propositions which it contains shall have received the full consideration of her Majesty's Government, the undersigned will not deem it right to add any further reply, than to refer to and repeal, as he now formally and distinctly does, the several declarations which it has, from time to lime, 'been his duty to make to the Government; of the United States with reference to! the existing posture of affairs in thedis-j puted territory; and to record his opinion that an inflexible adherence to the line of; conduct which her Majesty's Government j have announced it to bo their resolution j to pursue, for the defence of her Majes-, ty's righls, pending the negotiation of'the: * - /V. 4 ^ I Boundary quesr.ou, uucia m mi .majesty s . Government the only means of protecting) those rights from being in a continually | aggravated manner encroached upon and violated. The undersigned avails himself of litis occasion to renew to the Secretary of; State of the United States the assurance of his distinguished consideration. II. S. FOX. Hon. Joiin Forsyth, Ac. &c. &C. A Noble Child.?A little girl aged S years, named Uosworth "was drowned in the canal leading from the Ilousatonic near I Lee, Massachusetts, while generously at-; tempting to save a younger brother who' had fallen in. " * ? AStiDiasr CAMDEN, S. OAROZiZNA. SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 11,1840. O- The' "Saturday Evening Lecture," by the " Village Curate," is unavoidably crowded out this week. It shall appear in oar next MUNICIPAL ELECTION. The following gentlemen were, on Monday last, reflected Intcndant and Wardens for this town:? J. M. DeSalssure, Intendant. J. Rosser, J. R. McKain, W. M'Willie, J. Dux- ' lap, Wardens. ^ , < THE BOUNDARY QUESTION. We referred to lliis subject lost week, and stated that the indications were, that it would not be readily and pacifically adjusted. Wc give, to-day, the cor, rcspondonce between Mr. Forsyth, Secretary of stale, ana me x>ruisu iniiuou!i,.iiu. ?ui<.u g?.?. rise to the more recent supposition that this question would be likely to load to difficulties between the two countrios. The tone of Mr. Fox's letter is, to say the least, very undiplomatic, if not offensive. Not. withstanding however, the gloomy aspect which this question has assumod, we still trust and believe, that it may be satisfactorily arranged without a resort to arms. " , ' CONGRESS. As this is "emphatically the President-making scs6ion of Congress, we need not expect business to progress very rapidly, if indeed, it progresses at all; and it seems that the people are not likely to be disappointed by their public servants in this jespccU for very little disposition is manifested by the. members to do mora, or any tiling else than make speeches, the publication of which, may serve to promote tho interests of that candidate for the Presidency whom they support. From tho stand recently taken by tho Speaker, however, wo may expect some progress to be made in the regular business of the session, if it bo firmly maintained. In the discussion of the bill to prevent the interference of government officers in elections, Mr. Wattersos, of Tcnnessoc, was ma. kiug it a hook to hang on electioneering speech up. on, when the Speaker interposed, and pronounced him out of order, in introducing topics not connected with the subject. He stated that up to this period he had allowed gentlemen great latitude in discus, sion, but ho found that the House and the country, held hiin responsible, and he was therefore determined [ to enforce the rules, and let the House take the responsibility of over-ruling his decisions If the Speai?. ?.:ii tn ?kio .Inirtrminntion. and confine the I AC1 Will ttUUUC IV Wtiiu uwfcv.^...~. i debates within the rules, we hardly think the Ilouse j will take the responsibility of neglecting their legitimate duties; at all events, if it docs, the people will be able to detcrpiino who is to blame, and at another session give the delinquents a wider field for the exercise of their electioneering talents, by leaving them at home. ' In the Senate, the Cumberland Road appropriation bill has received its quietus. It has been rejected by a vote of 22 to 20. This augurs well for a system of retrenchment in the public expenditures, which wc hope will he followed up. Mr. Taluiadge has introduced a general Bank* nipt bill; this, with that proposed by Mr. Webster, is before the Judiciary Committee. We sincerely hopo the subject will receive the favorable consideration of Congress. The country requires it at their hands. PERIODICALS. Wc have received the April number of the Ladies Book. It is embellished with a colored engraving of Spring Fashions, containing three figures, unsurpassed in beauty and execution; a splendid view of the * | i numerics, nnu u piece ui muaic, iw jtwiuj uv partment sustains tho long established reputation of >> the work. Southern Literary Messenger.?The March number of this superior publication has just reached us, richly stored with its usual variety of literarygood things. Among tho many excellent articles, we notice, "White and Black Slavery; containing an interesting and thrilling account of the poorer classes in England and Ireland." The Messenger certainly deserves tho warm support of the South for its decided course upon the subject of slavery, which has Leon so ably discussed in several previous numbers. Aside from this, however, its claims are undisputed; having performed more in the development and encouragement of Southern Literature, than any periodical that has ever appeared. We may seem, to j some, too urgent upon this subject, but we only givo expression to our honest convictions, when we assert that the South has tho talent and tho genius which should elevate her literary character beyond tho reach of dispute?unfortunately, though, wo arc forced to confess, the native indolence and love of ease, 60 characteristic of her sons. The Messenger has dono much to arouse us from our lethargy in this particular, and we trust that tho enterprising publisher will find a substantial reward in the increase of his sub- * J scription list. i The Southern Ladies Book.?The February num- * her of tiiis publication, which we noticed more par- \ ticularly some weeks since has just come to hand, having been delayed for the purpose of procuring bet* \ tor paper. It is n decided improvement on the first number, and we have "not a shadow of doubt" of its continued progress. The March number will bo , forthcoming about the twentieth of this month; that of April, about (ho tenth of May, and so on until * the lost time shall be made up. _ j Persons wishing to see a copy can apply at the Posio!!ico to Mr. Thornton, who is agent, and will forward the names of subscribers. Terms, five dollars per annum, payable 0:1 receiving the first number. j Finns.?At Louisviilc, Ivy., a trcmondous fire cc- j currcd- 011 the 2t)lh ulU The loss is estimated at three hundred thousand dollars. Mobile, on the 31st ' Imil :i vimtl.ir vi<ifnfioil. Lo>S SUDHOSed to be not less- f'mn seemly-two thousand dollars.? ID'Arc all our (:iti/cn.s insured.' ? | ' 7 J Temit^wce in Iceland.?It is stated that tlio number enrolled 011 the temperance pledge in Ireland. 1 by the labors of father Matthew and other Catholic 3 clergy amounts to on>: million. -