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 WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, 1844-"Declined the proposal of the British plenipotentiary on the ground that 1t would have the effect ol restricting the possessions of the United States to limits for more cileumscribed than their claims clearly entitled them to-"

 Mir. c. then proceeds, not to state at large the claims of the United States 10 the Ter ritory, but the claims to the Columbia river which he divides into those we have in oul own proper right, and those derived from France and spain.n He grounds the former as against Great Britain, on priority of dis coyery and priority ofexploralion and settle ment. Their claim by discovery, as agains G. Britain, is rested on that of Capt Gray a citizen of the United States, on the 1ltl May, l792, who called 1t the Golumbii river which name i! sill retains,

 The claim by discovery is opposed by tn alleged discoveries of Mears and Vancouver Nears said along the coast through which tn