. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. th Franklin, signifi-cantly hinted at the recent Russian discoveries on the backof North America as affording a possible base for a friendlypower to move against Spain, if that country drove both Eng-land and the United States to extremities. This appeared alittle visionary at present, said Franklin, but I did not dis-pute it. So the Spanish and French Bourbons were thwarted in realityby the adhesion of England to her old colonial charters
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. th Franklin, signifi-cantly hinted at the recent Russian discoveries on the backof North America as affording a possible base for a friendlypower to move against Spain, if that country drove both Eng-land and the United States to extremities. This appeared alittle visionary at present, said Franklin, but I did not dis-pute it. So the Spanish and French Bourbons were thwarted in realityby the adhesion of England to her old colonial charters, and byher purpose to make them an inheritance for her emancipatedcolonies. The conquest of the northwest by Clark told in thefinal result rather more against the pretensions of Spain than 214 PEACE, 1782. against those of England. Clark himself, in March, 1780, hadsuspected that Spain would gladly have had the British captureall posts east of the Mississippi, so that they might be retakenby her troops, to establish there a claim which would serve tohelp her to their possession at the peace. Congress had indeed formulated its right to the trans-AUe-. J -? SOURCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI. [A reference to so well known a map as this of North America by Samuel Dunn, dated in1774 (nearly twenty years later than Mitchells), and making part of the American MilitaryPocket Atlas, issued for the use of British officers, by Sayer and Bennett. London. 177G, only sixyears before the negotiations of 17S2, might have thrown doubt on the geography of the earliermap, if much attentiou had been paid to the point.] ghany country on these ancient charters, and it had not recog-nized that there was in the proclamation of 1763 any abatementof those rights. Neither in the negotiations at Paris, nor inthe planning for a public domain, had this profession been lostsight of. Of the territory which the treaty had saved to the Ameri-cans, Jefferson said at the time in his .Xotcs on Virginia : Thecountry water
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