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V daitflgtoh, January !, IS4O.

 The undersigned, Secretary of State ol the United States. has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note of AIr. Pakenham, her Brliannic Majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, dated the 27th ult., by which, under Instructions from his gov ernment, he proposes to lhe government of the United States ''the expedency of refer ring the whole question of an equitable div lsion of that (ihe Oregon territory to the arbitration of some friendly sovereign or Staten

 The undersigned has submitted this note to the President, who after having bestowed upon Ii that respectful consideration so cmi- nently due to any proposition emanatng from the British government, has instructed him to give 10 Il the following answer

 The British government do not propose to refer to arbitration the question of the title 10 the Oregon territory, claimed by the two powers, respectively. IL is proposition to refer t. a friendly sovereign or State, merely the partition or ''equitable division" of that territory between the parties. IL assumes Inc fact that the title of Great Britain 10 portion of the territory is valid, and thus takes for granted the very question in dispute. Under this proposition, the very terms of the sub mission would contain an express acknow- ledgment of the night of Great Britain 10 a portion oi the territory, and would necessar- ily preclude the United States from claiming the whole heioFe the arbitrator. This, tao, m the ,iaee oi the note of the undersigned to Mr. Pakenham of the 30th August last, by which the President had asserted in the mos solemn form, the title of the United States fo the whole territory. Even if there were no ether conclusive reasons for declining the proposition, this alone would be teemed sui ficient by the President