Berlin arbitration

No. 15. Mr. Everett to Mr. Upshur, (confidential,) August 17, 1843. Mr.
Everett thinks the negotiation can be best carried on at Washington.
No. 16. Mr. Upshur to Mr. Everett, October 9, 1843. Full powers are sent
to Mr. Everett to negotiate on the Oregon boundary..

No. 17. Mr. Everett to Mr. Upshur, November 2, 1843, (confidential.) The

negotiation transferred to Washington...

No. 18. Mr. Everett to Mr. Upshur, November 14, 1843. Mr. Everett argues
for the parallel of 49°. He suggests a deflection from 49° would leave
to Great Britain the whole of Vancouver Island........

No. 19. Mr. Everett to Mr. Upshur, (confidential,) December 2, 1843. Mr.

Everett and Lord Aberdeen discuss the boundary. Mr. Everett points

out on a map the deflection from 49° that would leave Vancouver to

Great Britain....

Mr. Everett to Lord Aberdeen, November 30, 1843. Mr. Everett presents
his proposition to Lord Aberdeen in writing
No. 20. Mr. Everett to Mr. Nelson, April 1, 1844. Mr. Everett and Lord
Aberdeen continue the discussion. Mr. Everett thinks that Great
Britain will accept the line of 49° with the proposed deflection......

No. 21. Extract of a lecture delivered by Mr. William Sturgis before the

Mercantile Library Association of Boston, January 22, 1845. Views

of Mr. Sturgis...
No. 22. Mr. Everett to Mr. Calhoun, February 28, 1845. Mr. Everett
thinks that the line of 49° deflected, so as to give the whole of Van-
couver to Great Britain, is all that either party will concede.....
No. 23. Mr. Everett to Mr. Calhoun, March 7, 1845. Lord Ashburton
thinks there will be not much difficulty in coming to an adjustment.

No. 24. Mr. Everett to Mr. Calhoun, April 2, 1845, (confidential.) Mr.

Sturgis's pamphlet regarded by a friend of the British ministry as

fair and candid...

No. 25. Lord Ashburton to Mr. Sturgis, April 2, 1845. Lord Ashburton
regards Mr. Sturgis's pamphlet as distinct and impartial....
No. 26. Mr. Bates to Mr. Sturgis, May 1, 1845, (confidential.) Lord Aber-
deen pronounces Mr. Sturgis's pamphlet clear and sensible...

Extract from an article by Mr. senior, in the [London] Examiner,

No. 1943, Saturday, April 26, 1845. The only real claim of the Brit-

ish rests on contiguity.

No. 27. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the

years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, by Charles Wilkes, United States

Navy, commander of the expedition, in five volumes, and an atlas:

Philadelphia, 1845, vol. iv, chapter xiv, 1841, page 484. Wilkes sur-

veys Canal de Haro in July, 1841....

No. 28. Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Pakenham, (extract,) July 12, 1845. Mr.
Buchanan offers the line of 49° with free ports on Vancouver.
No. 29. Mr. Pakenham to Mr. Buchanan, (extract,) July 29, 1845. Mr.
Pakenham rejects Mr. Buchanan's offer..

No. 30. Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Pakenham, (extract,) August 30, 1845. Mr.
Buchanan withdraws his offer.....

No. 31. Mr. MacLane to Mr. Buchanan, October 3, 1845.

censures the rejection of the American proposition

ham.....

Lord Aberdeen

by Mr. Paken-

No. 32. Mr. MacLane to Mr. Buchanan, December 1, 1845. Lord Aberdeen
would have taken Mr. Buchanan's offer as the basis of negotiations..

MEMORIAL ON THE CANAL DE HARO, &c.-Continued.

No. 33. Mr. Bates to Mr. Sturgis, (private,) December 2, 1845. Hudson
Bay Company prevent settlement. No American will concede moro
than the line of 49° and Fuca's Straits....

No. 34. Mr. MacLane to Mr. Buchanan, February 3, 1846. Mr. Pakenham's
conduct strongly disapproved in England. Lord John Russell calls Mr.
Pakenham's rejection of the American offer a hasty proceeding. Sir
Robert Peel says that Mr. Pakenham ought to have referred the
American offer to his Government. Sir Robert Peel for a peaceable set-
tlement of the Oregon question. Mr. MacLane reports that the British
Government will accept the line of 49° and the straits of Fuca....

No. 35. Extract from the speech of Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, in the

Senate, March 16, 1846. The line of 49° the only line admissible.....

Extract from the speech of Mr. Webster, of Massachusetts, in the Senate,

March 30, 1846. Great Britain cannot expect anything south of 49°...

Extract from the debate on the Oregon question in the House of Repre-

sentatives, February 9, 1846. John Quincy Adams regards American

title as clear to all territory on the Pacific, south of 54° 40′..........

Extract from the speech of Mr. J. Q. Adams, in the House of Representa-

tives, April 13, 1846....

Extract from the speech of Mr. Cass, of Michigan, in the Senate, June, 1846.

To accept the line of 49 regarded as a sacrifice.....

Extract from the speech of Mr. Sevier, of Arkansas, chairman of the Com-

mittee on Foreign Relations, in the Senate, March 25, 1846. Many

Americans claimed 54° 40′ as the boundary, and would fight for 49

No. 36. Extract from the [London] Quarterly Review for March, 1846, vol.

lxxvii, page 603. The Quarterly in favor of the line of 49° and Fuca's

Straits...

No. 37. Mr. Buchanan to Mr. MacLane, February 26, 1846. The President

may consent to consult the Senate on any British proposition. The

President wishes not to leave open any source of new difficulties. The

President would submit to the Senate the line of 49° and the straits of

Fuca ....

No. 38. Mr. MacLane to Mr. Buchanan, March 3, 1846. Mr. MacLane re-
ports that Great Britain will assent to no better partition than the line
of 49° and Fuca's Straits....

No. 39. Mr. Bates to Mr. Sturgis, April 3, 1846. The Oregon question sure
to be settled on the American basis..
No. 40. Mr. MacLane to Mr. Buchanan, April 17, 1846. The British Gov-
ernment wait for Congress to give notice of the abolition of the treaty
for the non-occupation of Oregon...

No. 41. Extract from the speech of Mr. Dix, of New York, in the Senate,

February 19, 1846. Wilkes's map of Oregon the map used by the

American Senate....

No. 42. Mr. MacLane to Mr. Buchanan, May 18, 1846. Mr. MacLane and
Lord Aberdeen discuss the Oregon question. The British Government
will offer to divide the territory by the parallel of 49°, Birch's Bay,
Canal de Haro, and Fuca's Straits. The above proposed boundary-
line is that suggested by Mr. Everett....

No. 43. The Earl of Aberdeen to Mr. Pakenham, (extract,) May 18, 1846.

Lord Aberdeen offers the forty-ninth parallel, retaining the whole of

Vancouver Island for England....

No. 44. Extract from the speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, in the Senate,

June 18, 1846; debate on the ratification of the Oregon treaty. Mr.

Benton finds that the boundary-line passes through the Canal de

Haro

No. 45. Extract from the speech of the Earl of Aberdeen, in the House of

Lords, Monday, June 29, 1846. Lord Aberdeen and Parliament are

aware of the interpretation given to the treaty by the United States

Senate. Lord Aberdeen's regard for Mr. MacLane..

No. 46. Extract from the speech of Sir Robert Peel in the House of Com-