Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1839-05-23


THE BOUNDARY QUESTION. We make
some extracts from the correspondence be-
tween our Minister to England and Lord
Palmerston, Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
Il seems that our Government has deter
mined not TO send a special mininter to
Eng land; and that the negotiations for set
tie ent of the Boundary dispute are to be
hereafter carried on at Washington. After
stating the provision Of Congress for special
mission, and making the offer to institute
one, on behalf of the President, if it would
be agreeable TO the British Government, Mr..
Stevenson concludes his note thus:-
''To this proposition the undersigned has
been directed respectfully to urge the early
consid Grafton of her majesty's Govern
ment.
The Importance and urgency OF bringing
to speedy close the pending negotiation,
and the existing ADVERTISEMENTS in which
the two countries are now placed, will, the
undersigned persuades himself, sufficiently
explain the earnesness with which he has
pressed the subject upon the consideration
of Lord Palmerston; and, in closing this
note, he can but indulge the confident hope
that the final determination ofhes Majesty's
Government will not only correspond with
the Just expectations which are entertained
by his own Government, but that it will be
the means Of leading to such an adjustment
of the whole controversy as may be compati-
BILE with the inst rights and honor oftbe two
countries, and the peaceful and friendly re-
lati upon the preservation of which so
essentially depend the prosperity and hap
piness o(both. A. STEVENSON.
% Portland Place, March 80, 1889.
We give Lord Palmerston's reply entire.
LORD PALMERSTON TO MR..
STEVENSON.
Her Majesty's Government consider the
communicate which Mr. Stevenson has
! been instructed to make to the undersigned
upon the proposed mission of special en-
voy to England as a fresh proof of the
friendly disposition ofthe President, and OF
the frankness which 1t is hoped will always
characterize the intercourse between the
two Governments; and her Majesty's Gov
eminent hasten to reply to that commune
cation in the same spirit and with the same
frankncss. The President is DESTROYS OF
knowing whether such mission would be
agreeable to her Majesty Government, and
whether it would, IN their opinion, be the
means Of Fastening or facilitating the adj
iustment Of the controversy. That it would
be always agreeable to her Majesty's Gov
ernment TO receive any person enjoying the
confidence ofthe President, and sent hhher
10 treat of matters affecting the interests oil
both countries, the Undersigned is persuad
ed .tlIat the government The United States
cannot possibly doubt; but her Majesty y
Government do not see that in the presen,
state of the negtation such mission could
be likely to hasten or to facilitate the ad-
iustmeni of the controversy. 1t was the
wish of the British Government in 1851
when the award OF the kIngof Netherlands
was given, that any further negotiation
which might be necessary upon this subject
should be carried on in London. But the
Government Of the United States expressed
strong desire that the seat of negotiation
should be in Washington, and the British
Governme Mt acquiesced in that arrange
ment,
Now, the question at present to be con-
sidered is, whether any advantages would
arise from transferring the negotiation to
Londcn.
| Undoubtedly ifibc state of,hc aegociaion