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The Treaty Correspondence.


We continue from Saturdays paper our abstrac,
OF these important documents.


VII. Lord AsHBuRros replies to Mr. Wgs.
srER, expressing his regret that the latter should
have gone into.a discussion of the right to the ter
risory in dispute which he hoped had been es-
capped by mutual consent. He thought it settled
that the precise geographical point could not be
ascertained, and that settlement, if any were ct.
fected, must rest compromise. Were it not
that his doing so might be construed into disre-
| spect for the Commissioners Of Maine, who had
submitted an argument on the point, he would
pass over all that portion of MIR. Webster's note.
As it is, however, he says he will endeuvor to
bring all he has to say intoa small compass, for
he sees little in the arguments tha, 10 new or for
the first time advanced. The assertion Of the
Maine Commissioners that the Madawassa is
continuation of the St. Johns-which he acknow-
lodged to be new dscovery-he says is not sup
ported by the maps but even if it were true, the
point contended for by Maine between the Mc,is
and one OF the tributaries Of the Ristagouchs


must be abandoned, since both cannot be true
| ALt oDiy lIltlcuSG NC So~ utdW thet ue WN0ie
subject is incapable Of clear and precise settlement
He thinks it uncandid in MIR. Webster to treat the
claim of the United States as one Of undoubted
validity. To make that claim even plausible the
St. Johns and Ristagauche mast be regarded as
rivers emptying into the Atlantic; and the royal
arbiter decided that it would be hazardous to do
so. In the case OF the latter river, Lord A. be.
| el.o -.
be absurd.


Bvt Lord AS immediate concern is with the
terms of compromise-rather than with the argu-
ment on the question of right He prefers per-
sonal conference to written discussion, but acqu-
csces for the present.


Lord A. says he has no power to give up the
strip asked by Mr.. Webster as an equivalen, for
that desired by the British Government south of
the St. Johns: and hoped that the other equiva-
tents offered would have been sufficient. He de-
cEaes to examine the line proposed by Mr. Web
ster because, he says frankly, it is inadmissible
He eyinces good deal of warmth that Mr.. Web
ster should have supposed him to have come
clothed with power 10 accede 20 such proposal
He says:-


must beg to say that am quite at q loss, TO
account for such a proposal. Your own principle
of maintaining she great river the best boupda'
ry, is abandoned, an arbitrary line is drawn which
nobody ever suspected before, and can only sup
pose this course be dictated by that genera! as
sumption that, notwithstanding all former adinis
sisns and decisions to the contrary, this territory,
said 10 be m dispute, in truth belongs TO one par
ty, to be doed out as favor 10 the other; an as.
sumption that cannot for moment be admitted
and which you, sir, with the records OF your ofce
before you, viii hnfr1ly maintain


The position in which this negotiation now
stands, seems to prove what have before yenturea
to advance, that it would have better chance Of
success by conference than by cores spondence al
all events, that wa should soon arrive at ascertain
ing whnr we can or cannot do. Slow, unnecesss
rily slow. our progress has hitherto been, and ts
public seems somehow or other TO have become III
formed that there are differences. hope vines
we come to discuss them, that they will prove les
serious than they supposed to be, but it vel
desirable that doubts and distrusts should sets
rest, and that public credit and the transactions
commerce should suffer the least possible disu
bance For although, should this negota:ionw "
fortunately fail, it will be our duty Immediately
place it in some new course of further reference
it is not to be disguised that such result nausta
| pIOQoCtINc VI COHslOeIuSic puDiIC uiiAiSty
| appointment.


He says the right to navigate the ST. Johns
was not always treated by the American GoyeS'
ment matter of slight importance as MI.
| Webster is inclined to consider t-and says i |
must be considered valuable by the people a
Maine.


VIII. The next letter is likewise from Lord As
burton, and relates TO the disputed boundary "
yond the point in the channel between Lakes hf
ron and Superior, which was the last upon WIG
the commissioners of GheAt could agIes. ~
commissioners failed, too, in the appropriation
ST. Georges Island, and as the boundary throSsf
the channel from Lake Superior to the Lake OF "
| Woods. The FIRST Lord A. is ready to snrrea@
which is thought TO be the only object Of yala
in dispute. The island contains 25;S20 acres
fertile land. As to the ether point, he PToPoe'
that the line extend from point abou. sin np,
south of Pigeon river, continue aiosg the o',@
Portage, alternately by land and water, 10 tnep-
la Pluie. The yielding of the Island Of ST. teEs
| is accompanied with the condition that cnaAD.
shall be allowed 70 the British vessels through "
unimportant passages.


| TX The tle,teris from Mr.. Webster, and es
,ains the details of boundary line IN its We
extent between the United States ard the BIZ
Provinces, ninutely specifying the points 'a'e
which it should pass. The interest ct the se's
therein specified is, however, DESTROYED y Ms
tual consummation of the Treaty. Mr. Y ep'
also suggests several kindred subjects Th'eb
Treaty should contain. as The free asrtsaa'0r
| the ST Johns river, the common use Of cs.
passages in the Rivers and Lakes, the tuna