The American news reaches to the Oth instant. It is
of a cha- racter to command attention, and such as the latest previous ac-. counts led us to expect. Among the inhabitants on both sides of the frontier of Maine and New Brunswick, much excitement prevailed, but there had been no collision. The Americans were collecting militia, and Sir Jou N 11A [IVEY regular troops and militia. The Sixty-ninth Regiment of Infantry had been despatched from Ilmihiffix to New Brunswick; and the Nova Scotian Legislature, immediately on kerning the proceedings of the Governor of Maine, unanimously and with enthusiasm, passed resolutions authorizing the Governor to expend 100,000/. and call into active service one-
third of the militia force between the ages of eighteen and forty- I five—amounting to 8000 men—in aid of' the New Brunswiekers. I The Congress of the United States had closed its session ; but viouslv passed a bill which empowers the President to raise a can of' ten millions of dollars, to employ the regular forces of the Republic, and to " accept the services " of 50,000 volunteers, to repel any " actual invasion of the territory of the United States, by any threign power." The sum of 18,000 dollars is appropriated t d the salary and outfit of' a special minister to Great o' efray
Britain, provided the President should think fit to " appoint the same." The duration of the act is limited to sixty days afaes the meeting of the first session of' the next Congress. It was not known whether any special minister would be de- spatched to England ; but Mr. WEBSTER and Mr. CALIIOUN were both spoken of as likely to be intrusted with the mission. A further correspondence between Mr. Fox and Mr. FORF.YTII, as to the right of jurisdiction in the disputed territory, results in Mr. Fox's reference of the question to the Government at home. The general impression in the United States is that there will he no hostilities. Sir JOHN HARVEY, it was supposed, would be re- strained by Mr. Fox s arrangement with Mr. kORSYTII ; and when the Governor and Legislature of Maine understood that no part of the expense of warlike operations would be defrayed by the General Bovermnent, their military ardour would probably be cooled. e".t the same time, accident might bring on a serious conflict.
As some of our readers are probably not aware of the exact nature of' the dispute respecting the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, we may state, that by the second article of the treaty of 1'783, which followed the war of American independence, an attempt was made to describe a frontier line in the fallowing manner- " And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the bean:lark.% of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby- ze,,Teed and declared, that the following :ire and shalt be their boundaries : viz, the north-west angle of' Nova Scotia, viz. that angle which is formed by a /hie tirwei/ tin 11,,ah from the Sc th,'I yhhtnel,,, 5,14 hiyiebinels, whidi dicHe th,e, thentschT.; into /11,. se. List' /hose wide!, till ..411,,,tie ocean, to tile norti:-..testern-
most !WA or Coimecticut river," &c.
The difficulty, it would seem, cmtsist a in diseovering what "high hinds ' are intendeli tit be designated ill the article ipicued. TI IC nt -:t i1)11 was referred to the decision of the king of the Nether- thuds ill I11I5 ; but hi:; -Majesty's award was incomplete, end left the most puzzling point undecided : thus it remains where it was 17N:l. The land in dispute is desirable to the Aiiim 1—ins Ill
account of its timber ; to the British, for the same retwou, and another of more consequence—that through it lies the best read then Fredericton, in New Brunswick, to Lower Canada.
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