I have the honor to acknowledge your Grace's confidential despatch of
the
13 February last transmitting copies of correspondence between
Her
Majesty'sMajesty's Government and the Government of the United States on
the settlement of the
San Juan question, and copy of a despatch from
Lord Lyons reporting the substance of a conversation with
General
Cass on reading to him the proposals of Her Majesty's Government for
the settlement of the Oregon boundary question.