Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-08-02

northwest of America and that in regard to thoss
which Great Britain might have formed above the fifty frs
degree Of latitude they would raman with all such rights
trade with the natives and rights Of fishery as those settle
ments had enjoyed hitherto All regarded future settlement
by either Of the parties, said that was the wish of my
Government TO regulate these upon principles that might b.
mutually satisfactory and tend prevent all collision.
therefore instructed to propose, FIRST tho extension further
term OF ten years Of the third article Of the Convention
October 1918 and, secondly that Britain should spulae
during the like term that settlement should be made b,
any OF her subjects the northwest America thu
islands adjoining, either south Of the fifty degree of ati
tude or north Of the yh degree the United States stpu
ang that none should be made by their citizens north Of thu
fifty degree This proposal drew up form, and
nexed marked FL to the protocol Of the twelfth conference
said that these limits supposed be sufficient
TO Great Britain all the benefit to be derived from the settle
ments Of her Northwest and Hudsons Bay Companies on
that coast, and were indicated with that view.
The insertion Of limit Of years. which introduced
as applicable to the above restriction upon future settlements
may require explanation. In your despatch me- as un
dersood it. there such limit Of time specified Butt
your instructions to Mr. Middleton of the 22d Of July 1922
which you enclosed to me- perceived that there th.
limit introduced and that under this limit the proposal
was described to him the which submit
British Government concluded that would be erng on
the safe side to take, in this particular, your instructions
Mr. Middleton as my guide, and did accordingly"
MIR. Rush then goes on with succincter state
ment of the British counter-clam and argument, as
follows .
proper now as on the question Of the ST. Lawrence,
that should give you faithful information of the manner in
which the British Penpoenaries received my proposal and
the principles under which had introduced it. may set
out by saying, in word that they totally declined the one
and totally denied the other They said that Great Britain
considered the whole Of the unoccuped parts of America
being open to her future settlements like hereto
FORE They included within these parts well that portion
Of the northwest coast lying between the and the
y degrees OF latitude any other parts The princ
pie of colonization that coast elsewhere any portion
Of those continents not yet occupied, Great Britain
not prepared to relnquish Neither she prepared to
accede to the ercDe claim Of the United States She had
not by her convention with Spain in $780, any other
PERIOD conceded to that Power any exclusive rights on that
coast where actual settlements had not been formed She
considered the principles applicable it now as then
She could concede the United States who held the
Spanish title claims which she had felt herself obliged to re-
st when advanced by Span and her resistance to which
The credit Of Great Britain had been thought depend
Nor could Great Britain all admit the Penpotentiaries
sad the claim of the United States founded their own
first discovery II had been Objectionable with her in the
goaton Of 1sls and had been admitted since Her
surrender to the United States of the post of Columbia river
after the late in ulfment of the provisions of the
first article Of the treaty of Ghen without affecting questions
IF right either side Britain did admit the validity Of
he discovery by Captain Gray He had only been an
enterprise Of his own individual and the British Gov
yet be informed under what principles or usage
among the nations of Europe, his having first entered dis
tho fhafft
been the fact carry after such portion Of the
interior country alleged Great Britain entered her
dissent to such claim and least of all did she admit that
he circumstance of merchant of the United States
having penetrated the of that continent at Columbia
liver, to be taken extend claim favor Of the Uni
ed States along the coast both above and below that
vsr attitudes that had boon previously discovered and
explored by Great Britain herssl in expeditions fitted out
under the authority and with the of the nation
had been done by Captain Cook speak of no Others
whose voyage at least prior to that of Captain Gray On
he coast only few degrees south of the Columbia Britain
had made purchases of territory from the natives before the
United States Independent Power and upon that
liver ITSELF upon which flowed into west of the
Rocky Mountains her subjects had formed settlements coeva
WITH if prior to- the settlement by American citizens at
Is mouth.
Such is summary Of the grounds taken the very out
ct by the British Penpotentiaes opposition our claims
On my remarkng Immediately and before proceeding any
discussion Of thcm that had before been aware Of the
xtent and character Of all these objections they replied that
also for the first time that they had been apprzed in
my authentic and full way, of the of the claims as
lad stated them, behalf of the United Statescaims
which they said they bound declare, once Great
Britain wholly unpeparcd to admit and especially that
which aimed at nterdcting her from the right Of future colo
lzation in America"
After exhibiting las copied by us) the American
and the British counter-statement Of the
Oregon question, Mr.. RUSH, in his interesting me-
nor, proceeds to give first, the arguments and re-
,lies on either side, and then the propositions and
counter propositions that ensued. We have now
,ut to place all this entire before our readers add
ng few simple but necessary calculations.
Resuming the subject, said that it unknown my
Government that Great Britain had ever advanced any
lain to territory the northwest of America by right
occupation before the Nootka Sound controversy II
lear that by the treaty Of Paris of 7e3 her territorial rights
America were bounded westward by the Mississippi The
lain of the United States, under the discovery by Captain
iay therefore, all events, sufficient oveneach, in
,on of time, any that Great Britain could aege along that
cast the ground Of prior occupation and settlement AS
any alleged settlements by her subjects the Columbia,
N rivers falling into it. earlier, early, the formed
" American citizens Astoria, knew not of them, and
prepared admit the fact AS to the discovery itself Of
captain Gray not for moment to be drawn into ques
ion. II fact before the whole world. The very geo
yaphers Of Britain had adopted the which he had given
% this river. Vancouver himself undoubtedly the first Bri