Mobile register and journal., 1845-12-19

 beyond Montgomery.
 We are consequently without letters or papers.
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 Among the documents accompany ing the message of the President, is the correspondence of the State Department with the British Minister, Mir. Paeksa ham. on the Oregon question. IL commences in 1872, and includes all the letters and protocols ex changed since. The last letter we have seen, is Il very able letter by Mir. Buchanan, dated last sum. mer. lf Is one of the most clear, condensed and convincing expositons fl,e American utle, which these discussions have produced. The letters of Mir. Packenham are ingenious. bui between Mr. Calhoun, whose arguments in these papers relate Ihe valley of the Columbia only, and Mr. Buchanan, who man. iains the te of the United States to ihe whole ter. ritory up to the Russian boundary, British diplo- macy, however skilful, is nothing. On careful perusal of lhe correspondence il us, that ought be evident to all thai the English tile has not and had any foundation, in public law or in equity.
 The part which Mr. Webster bears in this cor respodence svery small, and has no reference to the merits Of the question. It appears. however, by dispatch dated in ls42, from Lord Aberdeen to MT. ", by hIm communicated to Mir. Webster, that the Bii- tish government were prepared to negotiate on the Oregon question, at the same time with the north eastern boundary. Lord Aberdeen states that "Lord Asllburton was furnished with specific and detailed instructions with respect to lhe treatment of this point of difference between the two governments'' viz: the line of boundary west of the Rocky Noun ian'; but that "that point alter having been made the subject of conference with the American Secre- tary, not Jurthr pressed" Again it is said that Lord AShburton "absfarnsd" from prosecuting these discussions from the apprehension that it might embarrass the settlement of the northeastern boun dary.
 We refer to the'e passages for the purpose of ex- pressing regret, that the two boundaries were not adjusted at once, while the British government the vein for the settlement of both questions, and had sent minister with powers so wide and Ilberal as Lord Ashburton's appeared to have been. Why Lord Ashburton should have pressed and Mir. Webster declined thus negotiation, is only explained by the fear of embarrassing another bui whether Lord Ashburton or Mir. Webster were the party who feared 10 lose by union of the two mat ers in one settlement, does not appear by the re- cord, and we believe that oficIal record b, pro- tocol or otherwise was made of this conyersa- lion. None Ut least has been published.
 l appears further. that the negotiations were re- commenced in l842, at the instance of the British government, not our then administration. This dispatch communicated to Mr. Webster in De- tober. 1872, and received MT. Webster's acknowl- edgement in November. with the assurance that Sat | no distant day communication would be addressed to the Minister of the United States at Lendon.-- The next letter iI ortei is from Mr. Pakenham Tn February. 1914, addressed to Mir. Upslur, calling a:tenion the subject and soliciting conference The death of Mir. Upshur few days afterwards prevented his prosecution of the matter, and Nr. Packenham again in July, invited Mir. Calhoun, then Secretary, a conference oa the subject, which Was accepted the 22nd August. Thenceforward un- der the vigorous action oi Mr. Calhoun the question was pushed forward. Between that date and the 24th September, six conferences held between the two plenpoteniaries, at the office of the Secre tary of State, between Mir. PackenIam and Mir. Calhoun. Al the second conference. held on the 26h ofAugust, Mir. Packenhan reproduced the offer made hy the British Government in 1924, oi the 49lh de. gree the boundary 10 the head waters of the Co., umbia and the line of the Columbia, thence 10 the mouth of the river, the navigation be free both parties--its addition m 1926 of the offer of Port Discovery and the tract of land incosed by that point and the Columbia river by certain defined line; and to this Mir. Packenham added the offer of the freedom of any port ports which the Unted States might desire, between the mouth of the Co., I,u,h ,,,J l,,;tn mediately declined by Mr. Calhoun and the reasons therefor given in writing al the third conference. Sept 2nd). The fourth and fifth conferences, Sept. 12th and Sept 20th, were employed in the exchange of statements, Mir. Packenham's reply to Mr. Cal houn and Mir. Calhoun's reIoaaer. The sixth and last conference held while Mir. Calhoun was Secre- ary. took place the 24,h of September, and here- al Mir. Packenham made the eclaration, that hls government would discuss the subject of the title of Great Britain north of 49 deg, that being the line of negotiation which understood to be the basis of negotiation by the United States, the line Of the Columbia was the basis of Great Britain, and that any concessions he may have offered be- tween these two lines, was to be taken an offer of compromise. and would "of course be understood'' as having been made subject to the previous protest the former negotiation, that il should be ta- ken SO as to prejudice the right of Great Britain to resume her whole claims.
 No further conferences were held between these parties. On the 18th of January, l846, Mir. Packen- ham addressed note to Mir. Calhoun. announcing that he has forwarded the correspondence between fem to his government, and is in the meantime in slruced to propose arbitration, leaving the seec tun of arbiter 10 subsequent arrangement. Mir. Calhoun declined the offer, waving other reasons, te ause he continued 'to etain the hope that the question may be settled by the negotiation now of 'he opinion that it would be uuads dsisable enter. tain proposal to resort any other mode SO long there is hope of arriving at satisfactory settle ment by aegot'ation; and especially to which might rather reiard than expedite it's final adjusl- ment." f.tI
 Under Mir. Polk 8 administration, one conference only WAS held betu cen Mir. Buchanan and Mir. Pack enham. It vas held on the 18th July last, and thereat Mr. Buchanan presented his argument in reply to Mir Packenham last letter to Mir. Calhoun and complied with the request of the British plcn potentiary for proposal of compromise by the American government Protesting that he does not waive his opinion of the right of the United States 10 the whole territory, the offer Is made in respect to the previous action of American negotiations of the 18th parallel, the boundary to the ocean, with the grant of free ports British commerce between thai point and the mouth of the Columbia.
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