spoken of in the passage quoted from Mr. Lemoinne, it has nothing to do with the River St. John, from its mouth to the point where it is intersected by the north line, during which distance it flows entirely through British territory; but relates to that part of the bank of the St. John lying between the point where it is intersected by the north line and the mouth of Fish River, where, as has been before stated, a few families of French peasants had voluntarily settled themselves from the opposite parish of Madawasca. Mr. Lemoinne, who had before him the letter of the Maine Commissioners to Mr. Webster, of the 29th June, 1842, disclaiming any intention of doing violence to the interests or opinions of these people, finds it convenient to represent the hypothetical separation of these people, amongst whom no dissatisfaction exists, in the following terms :

"Prendre la rivière pour limite dans tout son cours, c'etait couper la colonie en deux, diviser les intérêts, séparer les familles, rompre enfin une communauté paisible et heureuse*."

But this fanciful picture of a wrong that was never committed, and of distress that has

*To take the river as a boundary in its entire course, was to cut the colony into two parts, to divide its interests, to separate its families--in short, to break up a peaceful and happy community.

never been felt, must still be considered subordinate to the extravagant statements contained in the following passage, where the writer appears as little disposed to flatter the American Commissioners of Maine, as to do justice to the British negotiator:

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Cependant les Etats-Unis, tout en faisant fide ce qu'on leur accordait, prenaient tou'jours, et, l'appétit leur venant en mangeant,

plus on leur offrait, plus ils demandaient. Lord "Ashburton avait déjà cédé les trois quarts du "territoire contesté, il avait cédé la moitié de "l'heureuse et paisible colonie de Madawasca,' "il avait cédé la libre navigation du Saint Jean "à travers le Nouveau-Brunswick, et enfin de

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compte, au lieu de lui faire des remerciemens, "les Etats-Unis lui demandaient encore de "l'argent. Il avait offert de payer aux états "du Maine et de Massachusetts une indemnité "de 300,000 dollars: les deux états n'avaient "garde de refuser; mais il faut les voir faire "la petite bouche avant d'avaler le morceau. "Ce sont eux qui ont l'air de faire une grace au "Gouvernement Anglais en acceptant son

argent. 'L'état du Maine,' disent les Com"missaires Américains, 'a toujours eu une "répugnance insurmontable à céder aucune "portion du territoire qui lui est contesté pour "'une simple indemnité pécuniaire. Il ne vient

"point ici pour marchander des acres dans un "'esprit de trafic.' Ce que disant, l'état du "Maine prend les 300,000 dollars, et les partage "avec son confrère de Massachusetts*."

It is unnecessary further to expose these exaggerated assertions of our having surrendered to the United States three-fourths of the territory in dispute, together with a moiety of the colony of Madawasca; but in regard to the assertion that Lord Ashburton had offered to pay to the States of Maine and Massachu

* Meantime the United States, affecting to be indifferent to what was offered to them, nevertheless always accepted it, and their appetite increasing with their food, the more they were offered, the more they exacted. Lord Ashburton had already yielded three-fourths of the disputed territory; he had yielded a moiety of the happy and peaceful colony of Madawasca; he had yielded the free navigation of the St. John through New Brunswick; and at the closing of the account, instead of returning him their thanks, the United States asked him for money into the bargain. He had offered to pay to the States of Maine and Massachusetts an indemnity of 300,000 dollars: the two States took care not to refuse them, affecting, however, an admirable reluctance before they swallowed the morsel. It is they who seem to confer a favour upon the English Government in accepting its money. "The State of Maine," say the American Commissioners, "has always had an insurmountable repugnance to yield any portion of the territory that is disputed with them for a simple pecuniary indemnity. It is not here for the purpose of bargaining about its acres in a spirit of traffic." Having said this, the State of Maine takes the 300,000 dollars, and shares them with its fellow State, Massachusetts.

setts an indemnity of 300,000 dollars, it needs only to say that this is a pure invention, and proves that Mr. Lemoinne has either wil fully made this statement, or has never consulted the Treaty at all; for this particular matter could not be easily misunderstood, it being only treated of in the fifth article of the Treaty, where the United States' Government engage

"To pay and satisfy said States, respectively, "for all claims for expenses incurred by them "in protecting the said heretofore disputed "territory, and making a survey thereof in "1838: the Government of the United States

agreeing with the States of Maine and Mas"sachusetts to pay them the further sum of "three hundred thousand dollars, in equal "moieties, on account of their assent to the line "of boundary described in this Treaty, and in "consideration of the equivalent received there"for, from the Government of Her Britannic Majesty."

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If Mr. Lemoinne had read the article, he must have seen that the payment of these 300,000 dollars was a transaction between the Federal Government and these two States; and this was made still more notorious by Lord Ashburton's letter to Mr. Webster, dated 9th August, 1842, in which he expressly protests

against Her Majesty's Government being in any manner responsible "for these engage"ments, of the precise nature and objects of "which I am uninformed, nor have I con"sidered it necessary to make inquiry concern→ "ing them."

To this letter of protest Mr. Webster, in a note of the same date, says :

"What you say in regard to that subject is "quite correct: it purports to contain no "stipulation on the part of Great Britain, nor "is any responsibility supposed to be incurred by it, on the part of your Government."

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Nevertheless Mr. Lemoinne, who says 66 "avons sous les yeux cette correspondance," does not hesitate to assert that it was Lord Ashburton who had offered to pay the money.

In his remarks upon the eighth article of the Treaty, Mr. Lemoinne observes :

"Cet article du Traité n'a, comme on le voit, "aucune importance, n'établit en aucune façon "le droit de visite réciproque*.'

Although it is true that the right of mutual visitation is not established by it, a circumstance from which others as well as himself have sought to insinuate very unfounded con

* This article of the Treaty is, as we see, of no importance, and establishes in no respect the right of reciprocal visit.