...co; and England, in her turn, held the valley of the Mississippi from jealousy of France, not to colonize it. To the great joy of Spain, and in conformity to a policy, against which the advice of Shelburne could not prevail, every idea of settling the country was opposed; and every post between Mobile and Fort Chartres was abandoned; John Finley, a backwoodsman of North Carolina, who this year passed t...