Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-05-16

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NY ISplp:z IefsEenels your lorLiships
That to
Your l6iilsl1ip. s great SUI Itise, Mf. hickman
had state1 TO Won that he had not TODD
your lords mp as having proposed formally to
submit TO arbitrati lion the points in tispute be-
5oEellIlls1ts IN 10 tho.
inter tati6n of the Claytenf BnlYer treaty,
t1eFeceip your tllats
the 3oYeTnment Of the 6rited States we're sun-
der the and that the resident
intended in ansNefsto an inc qiry on the part of
the Senate 10 send message to that body, in
which IT 0uld be stated that no such offer had
ever been tnyieTstood to have been made
Your lords has on 50 many occasions In
your unot eiRl wei fs fnyouro eial correspor
iience with ma, alluded to proposal having
been made you to Mr. Bin. lianan that it did
not occur TOM possibl that he bad not con-
yeyed it 70 his Government; and as;the subject
QIftne CflLI IlS ueS50klS-
lion of which Dir. Marcy had on several ocea-
sions informed me he considered to have been.
on the part of the American Government contt=
ded cxciusiyelysto Mr.. Buchanans hands, had
not, consequently, come under discussion be-
tween Mr.. Marcy and myself did not e0HeeiIe
10 10 or desindble that I stonla orig.
indt6 any e0ttter8dti0a on ttGtstapff, or make
him a formal communicat ion, of the information
conveyed TO me by yonr lordship's despatch of
the 9th of Noyenber last e9 e
On receiving the alJ 5ye Information OF the
misapprehendon Of the United States Goycln=
mcnt, REFERRED to that despatch, and finding
that 1t contained IN INSTRUCTION to me to conlnu-
nicate it to Mr.. Marcy, Immediately did so,
within short explanatory note.
must certainly take blame to myself for not
having executed the instruction at an earlier
period; but confess that the passage of the
dispatch conveying it to me had escaped my at
tention, and / had looked on the dispatch as in
tended to apprise me of what was going for
ward rather than as an instruction to make
formal offer of arbitration to the United States
Government. asl
Under this impression 1 thought it would be
better forfme to defer speaking to Mr.. Marcy on
the subject of the proposed arbiratio ion until he
should alludc lit for apprehended that my
interference In the matter might be taken as an
undue intermeddling in negotiation not under
my charge, and as cyipcing precalltion which
might not be well received, intended to guard
against some presumed negligence on Mr.. Bu=
chRnan's part, which ought to have been sup
posed possible by her Alajesty's Government.
In the meantime lost no opportunity of sta
ting to leading Senator's and other persons that
such an offer had been made by her ALajestys
Government
Congress is now, however, in possession of the
fact, and although certain Senator'S and certain
newspapers, have thought proper to attribute to
Her AIajesty's Government and myself the most
your Lordship' negligence andnot Ms. Buchan-
ans nisapp rehcnsions, am quite aloss tocon-
tceive. what object they can possibly imagine Her
Maiesty's Government could have in misleading
the Government7of the United States, and thus
defeating for time the object which Her Majes-
ty's Government themselves had in view.
! I haveonly to repeat to you'll ordship there
| grct that an oversight of my own may have in
any sort contributed to iprolong the erroneous
impression produced by Mr.. Buchanan's mistake
ofyour Lordship' meaning.
/ have the honor to enclose copies of the cor
resnondcnce laid before Congress on this subject.
| l have, &c. (Signet) JonN i. CRAMPTON.
| Here follows the letter from Mr.. CHAMPION to
Mr. Marcy, dated Washington, February %,
| 1856, in which the former states thathe over
looked Lord Clnrcndon's instructions to submit
his proposal of arbitration to the the United
States Government
I7He EdT1of Clarendon to 1Ir. Crampt0n.l
FORE1GN OFFICE, March 90.
SRI have received your dispatch the 9Th
inst, explaining your omission 10 Acquaint Mr..
Marcy of the desire of her Majesty's Govern
ment to submit to arbitration their differences
with the Government Of the United States re.
speeding the Interpretation of the treaty ofathc
18th day Of April, $50, which, by my dis
patch Of tho 10th of November, you were in
sstructcd to do.
The Government of the United States cannot
however, found on your omission any allegation
such offer having been made by Her Majcstys
Government; for, as informed you in my dis
patch of the Stll of February, giving an account
/ of Mr.. Buchanan's statement that the offer of
arbitration had not been formally made, Mr. Blu
chanan distinctly told me that whatever 1 had
said TO him upon the subject had been reported
/ to his Government
cannot However, butrcgret that you did not
act upon the instructions conveyed in my dis
patch of the 10th of November last as it turns
out, your doing SO would have made misundcr.
standing impossible; but, at the same time, it is
right to add that you had repeatedly informed
me that Nr. Marcy declined entering upon
| question which was confided entirely to Dir.
Buchanan, and such being the case, it certdil,-
IN 7leter occurred tome that the United States
(90rernmont could haze been ign0rdnt0f the OF.
\. for OF arbitration, which had been repeatedly
made, and strongly recommended. by me as the
only mode of settling IN an honorable and salts
factory manner, difference Of opinion respect
hing the Interpretation. of atrcaty. am, &C..
(Signed) CLARRNDoH.
III. Crdmpfen to lie Ilarlyef Clorendon-(J2e-
ceited Aprft12)
Extract. WGsnINGroS, March 81 1866.
twill be within Your Lordslip's recollection
that afr. Clayton was informed, by Sir Henry
BulWer before the treaty ofI850 was signed,
that Iluatan was dc jttre and IItet0 British
possession; and ff. Clayton has on rGTi0Ws 0c-
eddoas. since. IN eoneersation foi1t me, stated