Some of the morning papers draw from a pamphlet published
by Mr. Featherstonhaugh a veey "startling statement" respecting the settled North-eastern boundary. Among the state papers of France, was dis- covered lately, a note by Franklin to the Count de Vergennes, dated Paris, 6th December 1782, and a map, on which he had marked with a strong red line, "The limits of the United States as settled in the preli- minaries between the British and American Plenipotentiaries :" this map had passed through the hands of Mr. Webster to the Committee of Foreign Affairs during the discussion of the disputed boundary : "the strong red line," says Mr. Jared Sparks, who discovered the document, "runs wholly to the south of S . John : in short, it is exactly the line now contended for by Great Britain, except that it concedes more than is claimed."
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