Note 23 — ANDREW JACKSON. (continued 3)

There is one consideration not often noticed in connection with the defence of New Orleans, which gives it additional importance. It is extremely doubtful, whether the city would have been surrendered to the Americans, under the treaty of peace, had it been captured. Spain never cordially acquiesced in the transfer of the territory of Louisiana from France to the United States, and her minister at Washington, the Marquis of Trujo, formally protested against it. At this time England was peculiarly zealous in taking care of Spanish interests, and in a letter addressed to the American, by the British Commissioners, at Ghent, on the 8th of October, 1814, these facts were stated, and the right of France to make the cession was seriously called in question.