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CAJR'GLWA IEiLjo v VOLUME if NEW BERN, N. G. SATURDAY.FEBRUARY 19, 1 820. NUMBER 100. TERMS'., ' THE CAROLINA CEXTI2VEU IS PUBLISHED r- WEEKLY BY '-. ' JOHN I. PASTEUR, At-TttRR Dollars per annum, one third payable in advance. " V No paper will be discontinued until all Arrearages are paid up, except at the op tion of the publisher. t! Advertisements inserted at 50 cents per square the first week, and 23 cents a square for each succeeding insertion. ", ' UNITED ST TES AND. SPAIN. ' From the W ashington City Gazette., SPANISH DIPLOMACY, The true motive for deferring the rati fication of the treaty of. the 22d Febru- ary, 1819, on the part of the king of Spain, is distinctly and positively stated in the following article, signed Sagitta rius. ' " , .. ' . . ' " , We do not hesitate to assert, that the article itself was written by a Spanish agent, or by a persou concerned in the laud speculationriow most evidently to be attemoted underthe title set up in vir tue of the grant to the duke of Alagon. . ' Airti-uie Tiuer ui uie suujoineu arti cle is a person connected with; the go vernment of Spain, or a party to the land speculation in question, we pro nounce upon the following considerations j 1. He speaks of particular, of dates, & other circumstances, in a most precise raid peremptory manner ;aqdthey are such as no man could have, attained a knowledge of, unless he had been in the intimate confidence, on this subject at least, with the highest authorities'' of -'the Spanish court. 2. He speaks exactly of the motives. of the expectations, of the determinations, . people, he may be influenced, as one of bound by treaty to disburse. Conse of the Spanish ministers at Madrid, in a the cabinet, to recommend the acceptance quently the calculation would authorise way, and in a tone, which they alone iof the treaty, with the grant to the Duke the adontiori of the -treat v.f couiu nave sputveii, or cuumiiave enauiea any one to speak.! . 3. The writer gives the orthography of names, such as Puno en Rostro, and uses titles, such as Lord Dm Francisco' Ray- monaoae does, uuKe oi Aiagon, in a way , ' ! . r in which the American public have never known them, and in,! which, Mr. Irving, and Mr. Forsyth, our ministers ' at the Spanish court, and Mr. Adams, the se cretary of state, have never used them. Furthermore, we assert, that the ob tect of the annexed article, and of other similar ones, which, perhaps, may fol low it, is to secure, for the land specu lators, the entire . grant, to Alagon, by the artifice, of dropping the grants to Puno en Rostro and Vargas : and that this object is designed to be effected upon the following grounds: . , : y J . By an apparent frankness and hon esty in admitting the grants to Puno en Rostro and Vargas, to be of a date ex cluded by the treaty. 2. Upon tfie expectation, that the A merican people, not being inclined to war, and vehemently desiring to gain the Florida?, will compel their government' to accept the treaty, with the grant to A the duke of Alagon included. v 3. By an effort through the medium of the press to make the grant to .Alagon under the treaty appear, if not valid, at least doubtful; and under this doubt, to urge the readiness with which they gave up the grant to Puno en Rostro and Var gas, as a reason why the United States, rather than they should let affairs remain unsettled, or hazard a war, should con sent to the perfection of the grant to the duke of Alagon. V Such is the scheme : now for the arti ficer it. j , ( First, then, there appeared, not many days ago, in the Neio-York Evening Post, the following paragraph": SPANISH TREATY. ! "We have indulged in few observa tions on this subject, because we were sensible that we were possessed of too imperfect information to render them any better than crude and idle speculations. We have now at length become possessed of .a history of facts of the most inter esting nature, which affords a key to what ever has appeared mysterious heretofore ; Tfjiich, however, we are not permitted to disclose at full length, but which enables us to pronounce, with strong confidence, . that our disputes with Spain will termi nate, speedily, amicably, . andjto the en fire satisfaction of this . country : and hich, at the same time, exempts the . king of Spainjfrom all censure. Indue time, the whole may be laid befoie the Public, and will convince the people, that the course which the executive has pur-, sued, has been eminently such a one as prudence, wisdom and justice dictated." The tenor of his paragraph is myteri 0,'? and therefore calculated to awaken cioaitif. It excited much .surprise : and I thus has the public mind been prepared for r U I r c "... 1 ' A inc4pciusoi ui oagiuanas. we ao nox implicate either the probity or patriotism a petition for a grant of land in East ment of the unexpired term, hopes were of Mr. Coleman, the editor of the Post, Florida, the boundaries' of which were entertained by his Ministers-, that your in this artifice ; but his paper, beyond all therein designated, fori and on account of explanatory article would have been with doubt , was made wse of for that purpose, v4 meritos y servicios," (merits aad sefvi- drawn, and in this expectation they were it is to be here, noted, that the para- graph in the' New-York Flvpnintr Pnsfl was published in that print on the 7th 1 referred to the Council, for,- deliberation, ihst. and the article signed Sagittarius (and on the 17th of December of the same was published in the City Gazette, at year, the royal and final 'grant, acknowl- Charleston, outh-Carolin a, on the 17th j edging the ; services was bestowed -on instant, : leaving thirteen days interval, Lord Doa Francisco Raymondo de Spes, just time enough for a' letter to reach Duke o( Alagon, &c. in full property Charleston; from New-York, by which the1 and absolute dominion, for himself and tiuiuurtwi uugiuunuit, raigntvnave beenf - ir, A-.M.jrl- '.U'n. ! " ' i informed r. that the necessary,preHniinary ! step had been taken at the latter pi n at the latter olace. This looks like concert.- I .Secondly, , on., the 31st of" December i City Gazette and Commercial tsr, :tiie : Daily Advertiser, of Charleston, fell, by1 ! tlte limitation oai nartnprshin wWl, partnership, was. not renewed, between Samuel II. beginning, lhis grant is therefore esta Skinnef and Joseph Whilden into the.: Wished by the date agreed upon in the hands of Joseph Whilden alone, arid fth Article of the Treatyj wKlcfx the King in seventeen days afterwards, Sagitta- of Spain refuses soJLo modify as to sub rius appeared in tbit Gazette, strongly I yert,the rights secured to the Duke, and marked and recommended to the readers : all others similarly , circumstancedand of the paper in the leading Editorial ar- cle. We do not-mean to impute any mercenary motive to Mr. Whilden, or to his former partner; but the City Gazette tirely from the additional "article which of Charleston has, it is obvious to our you endeavored lo pin to it.(3) understanding, been secured to the cause . . Adopting therefore the views of the of Sagittarius, who, we are persuaded, American Government J and considering from the fashion of it, wrote; the editorial the purchase of the Floridas in the light article as well as that underpins; signa-; of a Treasury speculation; is ftnot a splen ture. ' ! did bargain, clogged! as it is with the ti- In the third place, the letter of SagiU tie of Alagon ? "An estimate founded tarius, as we believe, is addressed " To v on information industriously andcautious the hon.;-John Quincy Adams,?t upon f jy collected, swells the value of the lands the persuasion, in Sagittarius, and his in Puno en Rostro's grant alone, sold in instigators, that from supposed views he may have of future preferment bv the oi viagqn annexed to itrather than risk a possible loss of popularity by holding out" against that grant after the two others have been given up. j After these examinations, all sunnorted f . I - oy undeniable facts, who is there that will '? not perceive- 1. Thar this is an attempt to : coerce ; the Executive of the U. States, by ) an appeal, in printto the people ?, , 2. That it is the same kind of .attempt, iti relation to" the treaty of 1819, which was made. by the marquis de vtwtt xiuju jii rtriawwu iu me nego- tiations and tfeaty'bf 1802 3i That the mode of the attempt in the present case is.precisely the same as that resorted to . by the Marquis de Casa- Yrujo, who offered to bribe ; Major Jackson to let him insert some- pieces in the'Majors paper, the Com mercial Register, in Philadelphia, which offer the Major' spurned, and informed President Jefferson of the fact; but whichpieces were after wards published otherwise under jthe signature of Graviora Ma nent?" : ' - vi'.-",. , v 4. In fine who does not perceive that Sagittarius is the precursor of that : long 'promised Ambassador, from I 3 Spain, who was to repair hither, " to give and receive explanations," and "for whose favorable reception Sagit- tarius is to prepare the way with the people and government of the With these observations.we proceed to introduce the letter of Sagittarius to our ' readers,promising that our anstcers to him, j upon different points, will be found at the U. -States, by means of publications ably, refute all vou have in the newspapers ? i subject. foot, in notes, correspondingly numbered., ously insisting on the date adopted in n i m Jt ' r:.. r0a Jtiie Treaty; that lie acted in strict conform From the "to rmky to his instructions, and is it not to Comnwrctaljdvertts of the l7th of. fee . January, 12U. ; Cabinet in thus fixing'that particular pe- to the hox. John QttNCY Adams. Tod as a tine qua rum condition, had in Sir The importance of the subject of view the grant to the Duke j and made its the Florida Treaty, the lively interest it establishment a special j object of the ne- has' inspired, your own fame and desti- nies so deeply involved in its happy issue, will vindicate me to your judgment if they do not excuse me to your feelings, in ad- dressing to you the following remarks.- In the motive there is nothing unkind or.; vindictive; in the manner, I; hope, you will find nothing disrespectful.(l) The grants to jPunp en Rostro and Vargas, bearing date respectively on the days mentioned in the documents sub- mitted to Congress, have been surrender- ed to the King, to enable him to meet the ', aspect. But again, the King has not re wishes of the American Government and ' fused to confirm the ratified Treaty j as the provisions of the Treaty; and this you have repeatedly aftirmed. , That he surrender and consequent exclusion took ) refused to admit an additional article pre? place only because theirates were sub-j pared by the Federal Cabinet, 4o far sequent to the 24th Jan. 1818. The .' changing the Treaty as to overthrow the lands embraced in them, amounting to j rights of at least three-fourths of the pri 1 5 or 1 6,000,000 of acres, pass under j vate property secured by that instrument, the Treaty to the " American Govern-: is conceded, and the fact, thus explained, fo . t ' In the month of July, 1817, the Duke !' 1 . .1 IT-? . r C . oi Aiaon preseniea io me jvmgoi opam ces) and expences incurred by him m the Canal of Manzanares. The rSetition was ms neirs. inis gram inciuaes au ine .T '."i-i: J a 1 !-'." uncultivated land not before granted, ly-" ins between the mouths of the St. John's and St. Lucie, thence to thfe source of the Hijuelos or Young River, thence to its mouth in the Gulph, thence to the mouth of the Amasura following that river to its source, thence to the Dlace of t ihis is, and always has beExv; tHe sole obstacle to the ratification, originating not with the fene of Spaing but springing en- the ordinary manner, .to an amount at least five times as reat as that von are You appear to impute to Don Onis the guilt of misrepresentation and bad faith in the conduct of the negotiati6n.(5) This accusation is certainly proved to be totally groundless, by his private letters, written mmPd atplv i hpfor nr) nftPi- the -conclusion ot- the! treaty. In tact, the statement maue oy you in the one of your official letters, that he had applied to his government for other grants to the disappointed noblemen, and Mr Vargas is correct, and proves quite the reverse. ; But to say that he meant that inese grams snouia Deexciuaea, merely because this, Government willed it so, is, entirely j erroneous ; his intention and meaning were t. that they should be ex- eluded on account of bearing date sub- sequent to ther24th of Jan. 1818."! do not know the date of . the -Duke oi rior to the period-stipulated In the treaty, I shall request his majesty's Government tg indemnify him by one more valuable," are expressions made use of by Don Onis, in one of his letters; (6) and clear ly shew his total ignorance of the date. They also prove, that he had no instruc- tions to agree 'to the abolition of these particular grants; or indeed of any other. That in his opinion, and acordmgto his ' intentions, the Duke of - Alagon's graht, if prior in date to the period stipulated, was recognised and established ; and 1 then coupled with his last public cxpla- nation to you, completely and unanswer alledged on this Now, this rinturally leads us to the ac- cusation Nof bad vfaith so openly preferred against the.Spanishr Government. Is it to be supposed ffom Don Onis so strenu- gotiation ? Had the Spanish King wish ed to change the date so as grants to Puno en Rostro and thereby palm upon you to include the and Vargas, those applied for and obtained after the resolution-for alienating the Floridas was taken,: after your objections to them were made known ; and after he had repossessed himself of them, then your charge, of nad faith and inconsistency, would not have been with s out color dr. plausibility j and the- affair j would at this time wear a very different ccnipietf Iy destroys the charge so tnum- pbantly brought forward. It may be fur- tkA. oml lli Imnot until tho Ificf wu, umi ii,v- mo- encouragea oy a roreign Amuui, exalted opinion of your sagacity, Ano- thet proof that the King Vas disposed to ratify, aud continued to believe, that .the obnoxious article would not be pertina- ciously adhered to, i$ that steps had been already taken for the appointment of the Governor of East .Florida to -Another Fyai- y , rPV T'l To your insinuations that th the deeds have been ante-ctated.I scarcely k now how to form a proper reply -From aRepubli can Secretary, we are prepared to expect a latitude and licence of expression dege- nerating sometimes even into; coarseness ; out from the son of the venerable. John Adams, schooled, even from boyhood, in the courtly customs and polite language of dippmacy, trained for a series of years in the etiquette and forbearance of Prin ces, with no slender claims to the next Presidency I did not (making all dueal lowances for irritation) expect, in a com munication to aYoreign potentate, a styje of crimination so bitter and unbecoming as that pervabing your corresnotidence.-! and least of all, the accusation of fraud, ( many years pripr.to those grants in ques perfidy and ante-dating, chargecT with- j tion. Was; that date' chosenr solely ia4 out a shadow of proof upon one of the reference tothe fraudulent, the nult and" oldest and most respectable monarchies in Europe. ,, (S) ; ; Vmiung uowever an cnticismy 1 pro- ceed v to observe, that besides the ab- i sehce of all evidence justifying your sus- plcions,"the dates of these several grants, oecarae suojecis oi, notoriety m. the : tia- r u iaci, ior jh ui ias leiier io you, IJon vanna, St. Augustine, and in this place, j Onis admits; the mutual intention to an- and, although personally and intimately 1 nul, but declares that intention to be sub acquainted with their history, I neverjervieht to slnd cohtroled by the letter, of f heard of such a project until suggested in !.the Treaty tf then you did hot assome f your communications. On the Contrary, , the risk of the date, why aftenoards trans- all the publicfunctiQnaries in the two first I mit the Treaty to Spain ? Don Onis's nmed places, have admitted the exclq- 'explanatory letter, connected with his sioh of the grants! to Puno en Rostro and ' confidential correspondence, forever puta Vargas, on account of their dates and the tliis oyestion at rest. (15) establishment of that to Alagon. (9) Upon a dispassionate consideration of v . The fraudulent nature of these grants, the whole subject, it clearly appears that I is a suujci.vuu wmcn youuescani wun na little elegance and amplification. Al though charmed with your rhetoric, I beg leave to dissent from your logic, denying both your premises and , conclusions.- Take for example the ohlv remamm gram now in existence or controversy b rmmmm t viz. inai io me uuKe oi Alagon,-and ad mitting its date to be genuine, let us ex amine if it be susceptible of the charge of fraud in any other point of view. - (10), The preliminary steps to that grant were taken before the resolution for the alienation of the F loridas was adopted, a fact clearly established by reference to the date of the petition ..and the correspon dence. The king hot having then offer ed you the' Floridas, do you, to borrow yourjartguageto the Spanish government, dare maintain that you, at that time not a party in contemplation, were delrauded of your rights, either vested or iri expec- I -juu i iiu hoi uus momarcn, as the sole and absolute proprietor of this terri tory unencumbered by any specific claim or lien "m you, the right to dispose of it as he pleased ? (11) 4 ?But it has been said, and it is above all: Others the most popular argument, that the grant was inordinate and eratui- . . f C Jl , . , .v u .u.uaga.usv supsequent purchasers lor valuable con- sideration. 1 his pronosition. althnnoh , , . . 1 a- not grounded in truth, in as much as the . T . ,r . myites, i answer in the following manner. Suppose a person to purchase an estate for $ 1,000,000, at a fatr price, you would riot, I presume, consider this a fraudulent transaction. Or suppose4his person to receive, by will, from his father, an es tate of the same value,; would you pro nounce this fraudulent, because, not, ob tained by the sweat of his brow ? Or suppose he should acquire by marriage" a a fortune to the same amount, would this in your view. of law be unjust and ine quitable?; In all these different modes of acquisition, are not the rights of the pos sessors precisely the same ? And does r rrot -the; grant of a sovereign to a subject convey 'rights just as absolute, sacred and inviolablelyif it be still contended that the grant to the duke of Alagon, was per fected about or after the fSeriod of the de cision for the alienation of the Floridas, I answer that as it is unusual to sell the soil in the transfer of: a province from brie sovereign to another, so : It. was sup posed by the king, that in this purchase the sovereignity and local position, not the soil, .were the primary objects to the unuea araies. . ' In this impression he was first unde-,: ceived in February, 18 1.8, two months af- j tex the grant ta the Duke had " been far- malized, ana more tnan " tition had received hiisanction., in aavenmg 10 ine suujcvk grants generally, I cannot ; avoid the -expression af my fears, that I have misconceiv ed one or your most prominent argu- tnents. You first. prove to your own per fect satisfaction-that the grantjg are null and void, and then most strenuousiyj re quire their revocation By the "royal au thority itself. If null and void, they .were legally, and logically speaking, in a state of perfect non-entity, and the subjects neither of negotiation ,nor iegislation. Why then, sir, did you cavil about grants, not in the state of existence ? . Why . ob stinately stake the precious interest of your country, involved in this important treaty, on a phantom of the imagination ? Why, above all; suffer one of, these void grants to become the nly obstacle to the amicable possession of the-Floridas, and the acknowledged extension of the Amer ican empire to the ,shores of tjie Pacific ? (1S) Ac bu affirm that the 24th Jan. was the day agreed to for the sole purpose of de feating the obnoxious grants tq "Alagon, Puno en Rostro and Vargas j If my re collection be not very treacherous,the pe riod first proposed by you, subsequent to which all grants would ber held ' null and void, was some time in i the year; 1 802, no en Rostro and Vargas. 14) , ,The plea founded. by you on misconcep- tion oi the Uuke ot Alagon7! grant, and the retrospectiveoperation of the Treaty; i so as to annul it, is inadmissible in point : vo an unioriunaie oversight, to say the least,coraimtted by yoiuare attributable all the difficulties which at present exist: and 4 it is to be lamented by all your admirers amongst whom I beg to be numbered, (16 I that in this negotiation von nt;nori j O v wuwtuiiiVU neither your own reputaton, nor that of your country.. 1 cannot, however, con elude without awarding thex compliment to which you .are justly entitled for mod eration in deciding not to pass your West ern boundary. . On that subject j you have thought better, and .seem to have accom modated your councils to the latent danger of a jmovemerit, which might disturb the balance of power r so long the settled pol icy of the Potentates, whose i influence i felt even in this hemisphere. A hope is cherished? that returning reason will not do her work by halves; but in convincing you of the expediency of acquiescing n -the ratified Treaty chase from th subject the embarrassments produced -by your misguided zeal, and, misconception of facts. (17) N OTES. . (1) A Spanish bow in the best style Whoever has seen Don Luis De Onis make his bow nf rArpmnnu will 9iImnn.l l i , , iy avikllUVTl eage max n is very much of his tournure. f(2) Why, then, was Mr. Forsytlr '!., , ;nfnnMa v t nv j iiwi luimimu mis j iuu 'speaK oi f I "16,000,000 of acres" surrendered, to- snew now much you give up. But does your giving up a part oi an enormous whole, entitle you to keep a still enor mous remainder ? This trick, my good t( Sagittarius," will fail you, ' (3) If this was the sole obstacle in the first instance," why did your minis ters at Madrid not say so in theirx)fi3cial letters? Why the evasive answers of Mr. Salmon ? . Why that of the Duke of San Fernando? Rather confess that the j-huffiim.! at Madrid was to gain time, in) or?erto make an effort to induce this gov ernment, by the means which you are now pursuing, to give up at least a part of the lands, to a set of needv speculator. rrt' ' . . - - say that the grant to the doke of Alagom was made on the 17th of December 1817, But how does'this agree with the follow- ing ats E: ; - ' , ;v- , ;, On the 26th of April, 1818, Mr. Irving wrote to -Mr. Adams from Mad rid, saying" I told him," (Pizarro, the Spanish Secretary of Stated " that -it I would be absolutely necessary, that the whole of thow errant dn aiaffon, runa en Rostro and VarjyasV should be can- . celled." . Pa?e 18. printed document tf the Senate No. 1. Un ine iyin gi juiy, 1818, Mr. Pizarro wrote to Mr. Irving on the snbiect, thus-r" I just received your esteemed letter, cotBraunicatirig to r. V I 1 - J
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