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William R. Manning. The Nootka Sound Controversy: A dissertation
The Nootka Sound Controversy: A dissertation
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I. INTRODUCTION
Chapter II. THE ENGLISH PLANS FOR OCCUPYING NOOTKA SOUND
Chapter III. THE SPANISH PLANS FOR OCCUPYING NOOTKA SOUND—THE CONFLICTING CLAIMS BEFORE 1789
Chapter IV. MARTINEZ’S OPERATIONS AT NOOTKA BEFORE COLNETT’S ARRIVAL
Chapter V. THE QUARREL AND SEIZURE
Chapter VI. THE ENGLISH PRISONERS IN MEXICO.[147]
Chapter VII. ATTEMPTS AT PEACEABLE SETTLEMENT
Chapter VIII. EUROPE PREPARES FOR WAR
Chapter IX. ENGLAND’S FIRST DEMAND GRANTED
Chapter X. AMERICA’S RELATIONS TO THE CONTROVERSY
Chapter XI. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND THE FAMILY COMPACT—EFFECT ON THE NEGOTIATION
Chapter XII. ENGLISH ULTIMATUM—SPANISH DEFIANCE
Chapter XIII. THE NOOTKA SOUND CONVENTION—ITS RECEPTION AND RESULTS
Chapter XIV. SUBSEQUENT NEGOTIATIONS AND FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE NOOTKA SOUND DISPUTE
Footnote
Bibliography. THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION, ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF THEIR IMPORTANCE
I. Unpublished Manuscripts
II. Published Documents
III. Secondary Sources
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William R. Manning
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Four days after the new vessel had been completed Meares departed for China in the Felice, carrying with him the furs collected by both vessels. The North-West America was placed under the orders of Douglas, the commander of the Iphigenia. Before departing, Meares had given him extended orders regarding wintering at the Sandwich Islands, and his conduct on the coast during the next season.[38] On October 27 the two remaining vessels left Nootka for the winter.[39]
In the instructions just mentioned nothing is said regarding any settlement to be made at Nootka the succeeding year. There is a statement, however, in the narrative that indicates unmistakably the intention of planting a colony of some considerable extent. The writer says that early in September, when the natives were leaving for the winter settlement up the sound, “we made these chiefs sensible in how many moons we should return to them, and that we should then be accompanied by others of our countrymen, and build more houses and endeavor to introduce our manners and mode of living to the practice of our Nootka friends.” He speaks of their pleasure at hearing this and of their promise of large quantities of furs; then narrates an elaborate ceremony of coronation performed by the chief, Maquilla, and his companions, which, he says, was intended as a recognition of his superiority and sovereign power over them.[40] If Meares understood that by this childish act of crowning he acquired for Great Britain sovereign rights over the district, he makes no effort to emphasize the fact. The statement, if true, is of more value as showing a definite intention to establish a colony the following year. It is not impossible, however, that both of these are cunningly contrived and rather overdrawn fabrications of a later date to strengthen his case before the Government or in the eyes of the public. Greenhow and Bancroft both seem to draw a line between Meares’s narrative and his memorial, considering the former more trustworthy since the latter was written for the express purpose of convincing the cabinet of the justice of his cause. If the narrative were the original log of the vessel instead of a subsequent account simply using that log as its basis, the reason for the distinction would be clear. But besides the indications in the preface and the date, November 16, 1790, attached to the preface, there are internal evidences that the narrative was not written, at least not completed, until Meares knew of the operations of the Spaniards at Nootka in 1789. Hence there is no reason why it should not be influenced by the same partisanship and selfish interest.[41]
