in any manner whatever, be construed Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean, to affect the right of either. excepting such islands as now are, or Art 2. Immediately after the Ratifica- heretofore have been, within the limits tion of this treaty by both parties, as of Nova Scotia; and whereas the seve hereinafter mentioned, orders shall be ral islands in the bay of Passamaquoddy, sent to the armies, squadrons, officers, | which is part of the Bay of Fundy, and subjects, and citizens of the two powers the Island of Grand Monan, in the said to cease from al! hostilities: And to pre- Bay of Fundy, are claimed by the United vent all causes of complaint that might States as being comprehended within arise on account of the prizes which may their aforesaid boundaries, which said be taken at sea after the said ratifications islands are claimed as belonging to his of this treaty, it is reciprocally agreed, Britannic Majesty, as having been at that all vessels and effects which may be the time of and previous to the aforesaid taken after the space of twelve days from | Treaty of 1783, within the limits of the the said ratifications, upon all parts of province of Nova Scotia. In order, the coast of North America, from the therefore, finally to decide upon these latitude of twenty-three degrees north to claims, it is agreed that they shall the latitude of fifty degrees north, and as be referred to two Commissioners to be far eastward in the Atlantic ocean, as the appointed in the following manner, viz, 36th degree of west longitude, from the one Commissioner shall be appointed by meridian of Greenwich, shall be restored his Britannic Majesty, and one by the on each side: That the time shall be 30 President of the United States, by and days in all other parts of the Atlantic with the advice and consent of the Seocean, north of the equinoctial line or nate thereof; and the said two Commis equator, and the same time for the Bri- sioners so appointed shall be sworn imtish and Irish Channels, for the Gulph partially to examine and decide upon of Mexico, and parts of the West Indies; the said claims according to such evi40 days for the North Seas, for the Bal | dence as shall be laid before them on tic, and for all parts of the Mediterra- the part of his Britannic Majesty and of nean; 60 days for the Atlantic Ocean the United States respectively. The said south of the equator as far as the lati- Commissioners shall meet at St. Andrew's tude of the Cape of Good Hope; 90 in the province of New Brunswick, and days for every part of the world south shall have power to adjourn to such other of the equator; aud 120 days for all place or places as they shall think fit. other parts of the world without ex- The said Commissioners shall, by a deception. claration or report under their hands and Art 3. All prisoners of war taken on seals, decide to which of the two coneither side, as well by land as by sea, tracting parties the several islands aforeshall be restored soon as practicable after said do respectively belong, in conforthe Ratification of this treaty as hereinaf- mity with the true intent of the said ter mentioned, on their paying all debts Treaty of Peace of one thousand seven which they may have contracted during | hundred and eighty-three. And if the their captivity. The two contracting par- said Commissioners shall agree in their ties respectively engage to discharge in decision, both parties shall consider specie, the advances which may have such a decision as final and conclusive. been made by the other for the suste--It is further agreed, that in the event nance and maintenance of such prisoners. Art 4. Whereas it was stipulated by the second Article in the Treaty of Peace of 1783, between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, that the boundary of the United States should comprehend all islands within twenty leagues of auy part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries, between Nova Scoția on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the | of the two Commissioners differing upon all or any of the matters so referred to them, or in the event of both or either of the said Commissioners refusing, or declining, or wilfully omitting, to act as such, they shall make jointly or separately, a report or reports, as well to the Government of his Britannic Majesty as to that of the United States, stating in detail the points on which they differ, and the grounds upon which their respective opinions have been formed, or the grounds upon which they, or either of them, have so refused, declined, or thorised, to act exactly in the manner directed with respect to those mentioned in the next preceding article, unless otherwise specified in the present article. The said Commissioners shall meet at St. Andrews, in the province of New Brunswick, and shall have power to adjourn to such other place or places as they shall think fit. The said Commissioners shall have power to ascertain and determine the points abovementioned, in conformity with the provisions of the said treaty of peace of 1783, and shall cause the boundary aforesaid, from the source of the river St. Croix to the river Iroquois or Cataraguy, to be surveyed and marked according to the said provisions. The said Commissioners shall make a map of the said boundary, and annex to it a declaration under their hands and seals, certifying it to be the true map of the said boundary, and particularizing the latitude and longitude of the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, of the northwesternmost head of Connecticut river, and of such other points of the said boundary as they may deem proper. And both parties agree to con sider such map and declaration as finally and conclusively fixing the said boundary. And in the event of the said two Commissioners differing, or both, or, either of them, refusing or declining, or wilfully omitting to act, such reports, declarations, or statements, shall be made by them, or either of them, and such reference to a friendly sovereign or state, shall be made, in all respects as in the latter part of the fourth Article is contained, and in as fuil a manner as if the same was herein repeated. Art. 5. Whereas neither that point of the high lands lying due north from the source of the river St. Croix, and desig. nated in the former treaty of peace be tween the two powers as the north-west angle of Nova Scotia, now the north westernmost head of Connecticut river, has yet been ascertained; and whereas that part of the boundary line between the dominion of the two powers which extends from the source of the river St. Croix, directly north to the above mentioned northwest angle of Nova Sco- Art. 6. Whereas, by the former treaty tia, thence along the said highlands of peace, that portion of the boundary of which divide those rivers that empty the United States from the point where themselves into the river St. Lawrence, the 45th degree of north latitude strikes from those which fall into the Atlantic the river Iroquois or Cataraguy, to the ocean to the northwesternmost head of lake Superior, was declared to be" along Connecticut river, thence down along the the middle of the said river, into lake Onmiddle of that river to the forty-fifth de-tario, through the middle of said lake, gree of north latitude; thence by a line due west on said latitude, until it strikes the river Iroquois or Cataraguy, has not yet been surveyed: it is agreed, that for these several purposes, two Commissioners shall be appointed, sworn, and au until it strikes the communication by water, between that lake, and lake Erie, thence along the middle of the said communication in the lake Erie, (To be continued.) Printed and Published by G. HOUSTON: No, 192, Strand; where all Communications addressed to thẹ Editor are requested to be forwarded, VOL. XXVII. No. 12.] LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1815. [Price 1s 353] [Part of this Week's Impression is printed on unstamped Paper.] CORN BILL. [354 "Sir, We, the undersigned Freehold 2 ers and other Landholders, Tradesmen and Manufacturers of the County Finding that it would be too late to "of Southampton, perceiving, that, in present a petition after calling together" various parts of the Kingdom, eyilany part of the County, and resolved disposed, or misguided, persons are enmyself to state, to one, at least, of the "deavouring to prevail on the Legisla Houses of Parliament, my reasons for ob- ture to impose duties on the Importajecting to this Bill; resolved to shew, in tion of Corn, and being convinced, the most formal manner, that I, at any "that such a measure would grievously rate, rejected the protection, which has oppress the labouring classes, would been so much talked of, I drew up, and be ruinous to Tradesmen and Manuforwarded to Earl Stanhope, a petition, facturers, would, in the end, be inju of which the following is a copy. This "rious to the Growers of Corn and the step became the more necessary as it was, "Owners of Land themselves, and might in some sort, my duty to make it known possibly disturb the peace of his Mato the House of Lords, that the High jesty's Dominions, request that you Sheriff of Hampshire had refused to "will be pleased to convene a Meeting convene a meeting of the County, and," of the County on a day as little distant thereby, to shew them, that they would" as may be convenient, in order to take have had a petition from this whole "into consideration and to discuss the county, had things taken their natural and propriety of presenting a petition to the usual course. Upon this occasion I may "two Houses of Parliament, earnestly be fairly looked upon as signing a peti-" praying, That no such measure may be tion in behalf of a great majority of the "adopted, and also praying for a repeal inhabitants of Hampshire; or, at the" of laws, hostile to our rights and libervery least, in behalf of the 581 gentle- "ties, passed during the late wars, and men, who signed the Requisition. I will "for a constitutional Reform in the Comnow insert the Petition, and then add "mons' House of Parliament." such remarks upon the subject as appear to me likely to be useful. That the said High Sheriff has refused to call such Meeting of the County, and that, therefore, your Petitioner, deeply impressed with the injurious tendency of any law to prohibit, or restrain, the amportation of Corn, has thus humbly pre To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assumed to make his individual appeal to sembled. The Petition of WILLIAM COBBETT, of Botley, in Hampshire, dated on the 17th day of March, 1815. HUMBLY SHEWETH. the Wisdom, the Justice, the Humanity of your Lordships. That your Petitioner does not presume to be competent to judge of the precise degree in which the Merchants, Traders, and Manufacturers of this kingdom may be affected by the proposed law; but That your Petitioner, on the 10th in- while common sense tells him, that it mus stant, delivered to the High Sheriff of seriously injure these classes of the com Hampshire, signed by your Petitioner munity, that it must so enhance and up himself, and by five hundred and eighty hold the price of shipping, freight, and one other Inhabitants of the County, manufactured goods, as to transfer the many of whom are freeholders, land-hold-building of ships, the employment of ships, ers, and land-cultivators, a Requisition in the following words to wit: the making of goods, together with vast numbers of our best artizans to countries, M where the necessaries of life are at a much lower price: while common sense tells him, that to uphold the price of food is to drive from their native country great numbers of persons in search of better living on their incomes, leaving their share of the taxes to be paid by those who remain, and that, too, out of diminished means arising from a diminished demand for their produce, their manu factures, and their professional labours; while common sense says this to your Petitioner, his own experience, as an owner and cultivator of land, enables him to state, with more precision, to your Lordships, the grounds of his conviction, that any law tending to raise, or keep up, the price of Corn, will prove, in the end, to be no benefit, but an injury to the owner and the cultivator of the land. That your Petitioner has seen, with great surprise, that, in certain Petitions obtained privately and sent from this County, it has been asserted, that the Expences of a farm remain nearly the same as when corn was at the late high price. Your Petitioner's observation and experience enables him most positively to contradict this very material fact. When Wheat was sold at an average of 100 shillings a quarter, the weekly wages of a labourer, in this neighbourhood, were from 15 to 18 shillings, and that now, when the average price of Wheat is about 60 shillings a quarter, the weekly wages of a labourer are from 10 to 12 shillings. The price of Brickwork, which was 50 shillings a Rod, or Perch, is now 40 shillings. The price of Smith's and Wheelwright's work is experiencing a proportionate fall; and the price of plough and cart-horses has fallen a full third. But, there is another great head of expense, to which your Petitioner is par ticularly anxious humbly to solicit the attention of your Lordships, as it is intimately connected, not only with the comfort of the great mass of the people, but with their political, civil, and moral conduct; namely, The Poor's Rates, which, in the Parish of Bishop's Waltham, where the land of your Petitioner principally lies, have been reduced in such a degree, that your Petitioner has had to pay, in the said parish, during the year just now expiring, one fifth less than he had to pay during the last year," In the parish of BoTLEY a still greater reducsion has taken place. with the pleasing prospect of a progres sive diminution in this head of expense and in the vast numbers of those persons, who are now included under the degrading appellation of paupers; who, in entering the pale of pauperism, have, in general, left behind them all those sentiments of independence, of patriotism, of love of liberty, of hatred of oppression, for which the very lowest classes of Englishmen were, in former times, so highly distinguished, aud have, along with the name and garb of paupers, as sumed the tone and the manners of slaves. For the practical, the undeniable proof, that high prices have an immediate tendency towards the creating of paupers; your Petitioner humbly begs leave to refer your Lordships to the official documents amongst the records of your Right Honourable House, where it clearly appears, that pauperism, kept in check for a long series of years by the native spirit of the people, was let loose like a torrent over the land by the enormous prices during the late wars, which, in depriving men of their food, deprived them, and even their children of that shame which had before kept them from the Poor-List; and, therefore, your Petitioner cannot but view with profound sorrow, that a legislative act should be in contemplation, having, as he firmly believes, a tendency to prevent for ever the restoration of the labouring classes to their former state of comfort, of independence of mind, and of frankness and boldness of manners. Your Petitioner is well aware, that, unless prices be raised and upheld, it will be impossible for the owners and the cultivators of the land to pay the taxes that will exist after the Property Tax shall have ceased; he is well aware, that to ensure them a high price for their corn is the only means of enabling them to pay these taxes; but, then, he is clearly convinced, that a very large part of those taxes might be dispensed with; that the army and navy, which swallows up so considerable a portion of them, might be reduced to the state in which they were previous to the late war, and that the whole of the public expenses (exclusive of those attendant on the National Debt): might be reduced to what they then were, namely, six millions a year; and thus without raising the price of corn, the credit, the safety, the honour of the nation, | fauaticism of agricultural societies could might all be amply provided for and secured. For these reasons your Petitioner humbly prays, that your Lordships will not pass any law to prohibit, or restrain, the importation of Corn; and, as the nation, once more, happily, sees the days of peace, he also prays for the repeal of all the laws, laying new restrictions on the Press, passed during the fate wars; and, further, he most humbly but most earnestly prays and implores your Lordships to take into your early consideration that subject, which, in point of real importance, swallows up all others: namely, the state of the Representation of the people in the Commons'House of Parliament. And your Petitioner shall ever pray. have induced such men as Mr. COKE and Mr. WESTERN to enlist themselves under the banners of Taxation!I have been much vexed at the sentiments in many of the petitions against the Bill. The petitioners, always upon a false scent, ascribe the Bill to the Land-owners, though they see it brought in by the Ministers and supported by all the settled Ministerial Majorities, in exactly the same way that every place-bill or war-bill or grant-bil! or tax-bill is supported. Can they not see, that it is really a government measure? Why do they fly with such fury at the Landholders, who, if the Bill pass, will only be enabled by it to pay the government the taxes which it wants to keep up its great establishW. CORBETT.ments? However, as the avarice of some Landholders, and the folly of others, have let them into the snare, let them get out of it as they can. Thus it appears to me that I have done every thing which I had the power to do against this Bill, which, I am afraid, will, in spite of all our efforts, become a law. After transmitting the above for publi-It is proposed, I see, by the City of cation, I received a letter from Lord London to petition the Regent not give Stanhope, informing me that my petition his assent to the Bill, I hope that this only reached him on Tuesday, which was will be done, and that the Regent will too late to be presented. "Had it been listen to the voice of so large a part of the" one day sooner," says his Lordship, "I nation as have expressed their abhorrence" would have presented it with pleasure.' 3 19 of the Bill.-I shall be exceedingly happy to have to communicate to n my readers, that the Royal Prerogative has, in this case, been exerted in behalf of the petitioners. In the mean while, I hope, that it will be clearly understood, that the owners and cultivators of land would not be gainers by the Corn Bill. But, if they have exposed themselves to public hatred by becoming the humble cat's-paws of those who want to keep up the taxes, I am not one of those who pity them. I have often enough warned them against this; and, if their short-sighted selfishness has blinded them and made them deaf, let them get their eyes and ears open as they can. They have petitioned and voted to have their corn made dear, when they should have made a stand for the reduction of the expenses and the taxes. But it would really seem, that they wish for a large standing army in time of profound peace; and, that they want high prices to enable them to pay the taxes, necessary to keep up this army. Sir GILBERT HEATHCOTE, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, Mr. CALCRAFT, and some others are exceptions; but, what but the senseless NAPOLEON'S RETURN. A It is now Tuesday noon. The next newspapers may inform me, that Napoleon is at Paris, or, that he is dead." It is impossible for me, or for any one in England, who has not a faithful and active correspondent at Paris, to be able to form any thing like a correct opinion as to the result of the enterprise of this man of consummate skill and consummate bra very. The newspapers at Paris are as much under the controul of the Government as the black slave is under that of his master. Nine tenths of ours are as completely enslaved in an indirect manner. The other tenth is under the influence of Fear. So that, as to the opinions, or even the statements of the press, very little reliance indeed can be placed upon them. All that is said about the loyalty of the people of France, about the zeal and fidelity of the soldiers, about the numerous corps which surround Napoleon: these may all be true, and they may all be false as the hearts of those who publish them. One fact, and |