Daily National Intelligencer

TREATY OF GHENT.

BOSTON, OCT. 4.

The English and American Commissioners, who are to decide, and the Agents of the two governments, who conduct the controversy relative to the Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, under the 4th article of the Treaty of Ghent, are still in session in this town.

The business of this commission is very much in advance of the others under the same treaty, which, from the greater quantity of actual surveys, could not be in so much forwardness.

At the last meeting in this town in June, the Commissioners having examined the evidence of the case, heard an argument by the Agent of each government, in which was fully developed the principles and right on which each nation consider itself entitled to all the Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay, and to Grand Menan, in the Bay of Fundy.

During the interval since the adjournment, a replication has been prepared by the Agents, respectively, and has now been heard by the Commissioners.

In these replications, which have continued for six or seven days, great efforts have been made by each of the Agents to support his positions, & overthrow those of his opponent. Since the arguments are finished, the Commissioners have set with closed doors, and we are unable to give any further detail of their proceedings; and we presume nothing will transpire until it shall come to the public through the government of one or the other nation.

It has often been asked, what is the value of the premises in dispute? We can reply, that the controversy involves a jurisdiction over three or four thousand inhabitants, a portion of country capable of forming five or six townships, a right of convenient navigation to the river St. Croix, which is of great importance to the towns on that stream, and particularly that it embraces many good harbors and places for drying fish, which, in case American vessels are excluded from the shores of Nova Scotia, are indispensable for the prosecution of the business in that quarter.

From the well known talents and zeal of the gentlemen engaged on the American side of the question, we have no doubt that every exertion, comporting with just and honorable principles, has been made to advance the interests of the U. States.

[Patriot.