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The British commissaries, Shirley and Mildmay, under date Paris, 
Sept. 21st, 1750, presented “A Memorial Describing the limits of Nova 
Scotia and Acadia.” They quote the 12th Article of the Treaty of 
Utrecht, and the act of cession of Acadia signed by the French King 
later in the same year, and then proceed to “ declare what are the Limits 
which they demand on the Part of his said Majesty, as the true Bound- 
aries of the said Territories of Nova Scotia, or Acadia, in its entire, con- 
formable to its ancient Limits.” The description of these bounds 
begins thus :— 
On the West, towards New-England, by the River Penobscot, otherwise 
called Pentagoet, that is to say, beginning at its Entrance, and from thence 
drawing a streight Line Northwards to the River of St. Lawrence, or the 
great River of Canada. . . . . 
and so on by boundaries, including all of the region to the eastward 
excepting Cape Breton and other Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
These bounds are shown on the large map contained in their memorials. 
As to the lands between the Penobscot and Kennebec, extending to the 
St. Lawrence, they claim that these belong to England both by ancient 
right and by the Treaty of Utrecht. And they demand that orders be 
dispatched for the due execution of this article of the treaty and for the 
withdrawal of French establishments from within those limits. Obvi- 
ously this is but a formal statement of the British position. 
Under the same date the French commissaries, la Galissonière and 
de Silhouette, issue a shorter statement. They state that the King 
ceeded to England all Acadia according to its ancient limits, together 
with (comme aussi) Port Royal or Annapolis. From this it results that 
Annapolis was not comprised within the ancient limits of Acadia, a fact 
agreeing with the most ancient descriptions of the country, and conse- 
quently ancient Acadia included only a part of the peninsula [i.e., of 
that peninsula forming the present Nova Scotia]. They hold that the 
limits between New France and New England ought to remain the same 
as before the Treaty of Utrecht, which made no change in that respect. 
The discussion should not be limited to the discussion of the bounds of 
Acadia alone, but extended to related matters. The statement also 
refers to other matters not connected with our present subject of the 
boundaries. 
In another brief note of date Nov. 16th, 1750, the French commis- 
sioners state that having been desired by the English commissioners to 
explain more exactly the ancient limits of Acadia, they declare that :— 
. l’ancienne Acadie commence à JVextrémité de la Baye-francoise, 
depuis le Cap de Sainte-Marie, ou le Cap Fourchu ; qu'elle s'étend de long 
des Côtes, & qu'elle se termine au Cap Canseau. 
