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?> / c <\*S u/ , JANUARY I SO, 1810.' i? pm/m * mm f j. * ? . .11. i ? [No. 7.] rVNMMUII WBKKLT i V BY THOMAS W. LORh/Jn, tms stew *tomv orris NevsaettcriUjif batuavd] WOOIWAID, U* ntCVAHMMk nf: . SMtHrifiikm+C'' Jftlilf in advance... " ' jt*K> notion of tbe ] \rrtltemntt not T_T? .he first time for seventy.) each mb*quent insertion for * larger number of Ik ffl'siyxsftiRv i sU arrearage, arc paid, urtctn llivt, inured nt*, Mid forty.ccnta for L iq the, name proportion STA'M - - TUB LAST Nl l PEDIS. anneAtd to th* Um j ni&ontrtfr xm 'PltOJRTOF TIIR Aht. 1. There the U. 8Ute? i 1ATION. I ionnic Majesty [feet liberty of < people apfl mpectlvel iff our (km* *? '-"i i territories oftflsBri ..jwd per ?igation. The e two countries ', (Yeely and ac and molestation, and cargoes to th? T rjr-fy pl<M*? and rivers, - ? . Jtories and dominions aforesaid, enter into ths samft* to rcsort there, and rt aiii and reside there, without any limitation r titjio f also, to hire and posBcss houses and *rt-houies, for the purposes of their com icyrce ) and generally, tho merchants and tra lers on each side, shall enjoy tho most complete i prntoction and security for their commerce, but subject always, ns to what respects this article, ?. to (lie laws and statutes of the two countries S&respectlvelv. I h ^ aiit. x. i>o other or higher duties shall 1m; ^Imposed on the importation into the U, Stale*, of uny articles, tno growth, produce or ninnu ? /actiire of the dominions of If in Britannic Ma 1 ???' jesty's in Kurope, arid no other or higher ?lu ticH vhull be imposed on the importation into Jii* n. M.'< dominions in Kurope of any articles growth, produce or manufacture of the U. States, than are or shall l>c payable on the like Hides being of the growth, produce ormnnu icture of any other foreign country. Nor shajl ly higher duties or charge* l?e imposed, In ei er of the two countries, on the exportation of jpy article:* to the United StateH, or to His Bri tannic Majesty's dominion* in Euroje, rcsjiec |ivol v, than such as are payable on the exporta K,,?n of the like article* to everv other foreign fcuuntry. Nor Mia 1 1 any prohibition be imposed tit the exportation and importation of any arti iles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the united States, or of lli* Britannic Majesty's (ominions in Kurope, to or from the aald States, r the said dominions, which shall not equally ixtend to til other nations. No other* or high such only excepted as may bo l>ound from or to tritilh poKsessions to which vessels are not. per tinently Admitted) than shall l?e payable in t said ports by vessels of the United States, ? in the ports.of any of His Britannic Majea * dominions in Kurope, on the vessels of the itcd Statco, than are or shall be payuhle in lie said ports by British vessels. The same du ics of exportation Qml importation, and also he same draw-backs and bounties shall be re spectively paid and allowed, in either country, >11 all articles the produce, growth or manufac ture of the Unjteu States, or of his Britannic .? ^lhjesty> dominions in Kurope, whether such '.'exportation or importation be in vessels of the MTnited State* or in British vessels. i* Art. 8. His Britannic Majesty agrees that Die vessels of the United States shall be admit ted and hospitably received. In all the sea-ports and harbors of the British dominions in the ?Bast-Indies, and that tho citizens of said states nay freely carry on a trade with the said terrif ories in all articles of which tho importation >r exportation respectively to or from the said erritories shall not Iks entirely prohibited I Pro vided only, that it shall not be lawftil for them, in any time of war botween the British govern ment and any other powefcor state whatever, to export from said territories, without the H|>ccial . permission of the British government there, a ivny military or nijVl stores or rice. V * 'Hie citi/en* of thv. JLJlMted States shall pay for their vessels when admitted into the said )M>rts, no other or higher duty or charge* than shall lie payable on British vessels in the ports of the l/nited States. And they shall pay no other or higher duties or charges'on the impor tation or exportation of tho cargoes 6f the said vemeli?,thaii shall l?e payable on the same arti cles when imported or ex|Mirted in British ves sel*. Hut it is expressly agreed that tho ves sels of the I'nited States shall not carry any of the paid articles exported by thein from the Said British territories, to any |Hirt or place except, to some port or place in America, where tot Fame shall lie unladen ; or to some port or plnco, or ports or places in China, of in the >In dian seas, whence the said vessels shall proceed jis aforesaid, to some port or place in America, and there unlade the whole of the, article* ex ported, in the manner above mentioned, from a foresaid British territories, And such regula tions shall be adopted by both parties as shall from time to tiuie lie found necessary to enforce the due and faithful observance of wis stipula tion. It is also understood that the permission granted by this article, is notio extend to allow the vessels of the Unitffl States to carry on anv partot the counting <r*le nf the said British territories, without the ftpeefal permission of the British govefriment therej but the vessels go ing from one pfrt to anotfcr of the said territo- 1 ries, for the wle pqrpt&a either of discharging their original cargoes or port thereof, or of com- f pleting their return cargoes, are not to be con shlered a* tarrying on the r.onst ing 1 radc. Nei ther is this article to be cbtutniea to allow tho citizen* of th ? United 8tatest0 little or reside within the said territories, oV w go into the in terior parts thereof, without the permission of the British government established there t and if an y transgressions should be attempted a goinut the regulations of the British government Tn this rcBprct, the observance of thejMVtt shall and may be enforced against the citiaena of A litetfca, in the same manner M against British subjects or others transgressing the same rule. Aud the citizens of the United ntates whenever they arrive in auy port or harbor in the said ter ritories, or if they should be permitted, in plan ner ,tfo?otaid, to go to any place therein, shall nlwsVsJ}* subject to tl to same la\v?i government and .jurisdiction of wliatsoevcr nature, establish ed in such ti&rbor, port or place, according or the same may Jw., Tlie veasel* of the United Slates may also touch for refreshments at the Ih.tuul of "8t? Helena or at such other posfn or places oh may be in the possession of Orcat-Bri tain,intha African or Indian ^can, but subject in all rcnpects to such regulations as the British government may at any ttm# establish there. art. 4. The navigation of HI the lakes, ri vers ami water Communications, the middle of which io the lioundary between the U. States and Ilia I). M.'a dominion* on tho continent of North-America, shall at all times ho free to the citizens of the (J. 8. and His D. M.'h subjects. The said citizens and subjects may freely carry on trade and commerce with each other, and for that purpose pass and repass by land or inland navigation) into lite respective territories of the two parties on the said continent : and no high* cr or other tolls or rates of ferriage than what are or shall be payable by natives shall be de manded on either side. Ait goods and merchan dize whose im|)ortatfon into the IT. 8. shall not be wholly prohibited may freely for the purpos es of the commerce above mentioned, Iw carri ed into the same, in the manner aforesaid by llis I). M.'s subjecta, and such goods and merchan dize shall be subject to no higher or other duties than would be payable by citizens of the U. 8. on the importation of the same in American vessels into the Atlantic porta of the said U. 8. and in like manner all goods and merchandize whose importation into His M.'s said territories | in America shall not be entirely prohibited, may freejy, for the purposes of the commerce above mentioned, be carried into the same in the man ner aforesaid, by the citizens of the U. 8. and such goods and mcrChanriizo shall be cubject to no higher or other duties 1lian would be payable by His M.'h subjects on the {importation of the siine from Kurone into the said territories. All goods not prohibited to Iks exported from th? said territories respectively may in like manner bo carried out of the name by the two parties. No duty of importation or exportation shall be levied by either party pn peltries or fura which may lie brought in the manner aforesaid, by land or inland navigation, from the said territories of one party into the said territories of the otW Art. 5. It shall be free for each of (he two contracting parties respectively, to appoint con* sills for the protection of seamen, to residfi In the dominions and territories of the other party ; and the said consuls and agents shall enjoy the liberties and rights which belong to them by reason of their functions. Hut Itefore any con* sul or agent aforesaid dial! act as such h? shall be in the usual form, approved and admitted by the party to whom ho is sent ; and it is hereby declared to bo lawful and proper that in case of illegal or improper conduct towards the laws or Kvermnent, a consul or agent aforesaid, may punished according to law* if the laws will reach the ease* or be dismissed, or even sent back, the offended government assigning to the other the reasons for the same. Aut. 5, It being the intention of the con tracting parties that the people of thejr respec tive dominions shall be placed on the ? footing of (hd DIMt fciwwi"! ?*?'*?? 14 1 1 ' * nve uominiona snail lie placed on the footing of the most favored nation, it is agreed that in case either party >hall hereafter grant any addition al advantage in navigation or trade to any other nation, the citUens or subjects of the other par ty shall fully participate therein freely where it Is freely granted to such other nation, or yielding the same compensation where the grant is made for soma equivalent. d. The lirilith plenlpotentlarlm to the American pteuipntentlnrif*. lloait! of' Trade, Juno 10, IB 15, Th" undersigned lt.n o the honor to transmit to the plenipotentiaries of the United State*, a ton irt projri for the arrangement of the commercial intercourse between the two countries. The A* meriran pleniiMitenUuries will observe that the article respecting the llritish Ka*t-Indie? la not proposed to be included in the body of the treaty* (>u I in a separate article more limited in point of duration than would be suitable to the Arrange* nient* of the treaty itself. The undersigned fie- 1 verthvlos* flatter themselves that the American Slcnipotentiaricii will Hee in the proponed art. for lie Kfcat-India intercourse, a proof of the liberal and Conciliatory disposition with which the Bri* tilth government is disposed to net upon the sub ject. It will be recollected at one of the unofll* cial conference*, and ?ut?scquetitly at the flint offlclaliconfcrcnce held witli the American ple nipotentiaries, the undersigned stated by order of their government, that if the power of going from the United State* to the Iliitish dominions in the Kant-Indies by an indirect course were conceded, U. Britain must lie conaidered a* en titled to some equivalent for the concession, and (hit the fur trade was |Hiinted out by the under signed as capable of furnishing that equivalent. ^fhe American plenipotentiaries having stated that their instruction* did not permit them to grant by stipulation any commercial intercourse between II. M.'s subject* and the Indians resid ing in the acknowledged boundaries of the V. S. and not having suggested any -other mean* of finding an ?i|uivalentf th? undersigned weald hart been fully Justified in rendering Vconf re projet which wholly omitted (lie concession in question. But tf. M.'n government, anxious to renew the commercial relations of the two coon tries, in the true spirit of pcace and harmony* Km authorised the undersigned to offer a scpa* rate article, by which the indirect Voyage fnrtn the U. 8wte*'tQi the British Kist-Indies wjJl be permitted without ?onival#nt, for the siiace of two years, io tlvo connqeHt linpt that during that period the American goveramentViil bo enabled I to propose such an *)viVa1ent'eejiiay. induce O. Britain to make (hat permission commensurate with the general duration of the treaty. The undersigned wjllbe happy to have the ho nor of seeing the American plenipotentiaries on any day which may suit their convenience, and rcqucsithein to accept the assurance. &c. TMK nniTIBII CONTRR I'MOJRT. Art. 1. [Ajfreeing in auhstance with the 1st nrticlo of the projet ofthc American commission era. inserted above.] Art. 2. No other or higher duties shall be im potod on the importation into the territories of hi* Dritannic Majesty in Kurope, of any articles the growth, produce or manufacture of the U. 8. and no other or higher duties shall be imposed on the importation into the United States of any ar ticle the growth, produce or manufacture of bin 1). M.'s territories in Kurone, than are or may be payable on the like articles being the growth, produce or the manufacture of any other foreign country ; nor shall any other or higher duties or charges be imposed in either of the two countries on the exportation of any articles to his 1). M.'s territories in Kuropc or to the U, 8. respectively, than such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country ; nor shall any prohibition be imposed upon Oie importation or exportation of any article the growth, produce or manufacture of hi* H. M.'s territories in Kuropa^or of the U. 8. to or from the said territories of bisll. M. or to or from the said U. 8. which shall not Ik; equally extended to all other nations. No other or higher duties or chargca shall be imposed in the ports of any of his 1). M.'s rritories in Kurope, on the ves sels of the U. 8. than shall be payable on liritish vessels, nor- in any of the ports of the 1'. 8. on liritish vessels than those pny able in thu same ports by vessels of the (J. 8. * An r. 3. The navigation of nil lnkc*, river* and water communications the middle of which in or may be the boundary between his H. M.'s terri tortcA on the continent of N. America and the U. 8. nhall (with, the exception hereinafter men tioned) at all titnetbe free to his B. M.'h subject* ind the Citizens of the U. H. The inhabiianta of his B. BJiVtcrritorie# in N. America and tlie citizen* ?C tb* U. S. may freely carry on trade ahd commeitx* by land or inland navigation a* aforesaid, with goods & merchandise the growth produce or manufacture of the British territories in Europe or N. America or of the U. 8. reapec 'ely, within the territories of the two parties ipectiVgl v on the said continent (the countries thin the limits of the Hudson's Bay Company ly excepted) and no other or higher duties or Jli or rates of ferriage or portage than what are or may be payable by natives respectively, shall Ims taken or demanded on either side. All goods or merchandise whose importation into the U. 8, shall not Ims wholly prohibited mny freely for the purposes of the commerce above-mentioned be carried into the said U. 8f in the mnnner oforo said by his ll.'M.'s subjects, and the snid goods and merchandise shall lie subject to no higher or other duties than would he payable by citizens of the U. 8v on the importation of the same into in American vessels into the Atlantic ports of the U. 8. And in like manner all goods & mer ; chnudise tho growth, produce or matiufndure of the U. 8. whoso importation into his M.'s said territories in America shall not lie entirely pro hibited, may fully for the purposes of the com merce above-mentioned' ho carried into the same by land, or by means of such lakes, rivers and water communications as above-mentioned, by tho citizens of the United States, and sueii goods and merchandise shall bo subject to no other or higher duties than would be payable by his Majesty's subjects on the importation of the same from Kuropo into the said territories. No duty shall he levied by either party on pel tru'n or furs which may be brought in the man ner aforesaid by land or inland navigation from the snid territories of another, hot tolls or rates of ferriage or portago may lie demanded and taken in mutiner above-mentioned on such furs or peltries. It is hereby declared that grilling in this article contained, ns to navigation of riv ers, lakes or water communication shall extend to give a right of navigation upon or within the same in those part* where the middle is not the boundary between his M.'s territories & tho II. H ! A HTt 4. [The samo in substance r? art. ,1. of the American projet, except the ointsHion of" a {;enta for protection of seamen," and the foUtav* n* addition : | It is hereby declared that wwer orthe contracting parties may except from the residence of consuls such particular places a* Much party shall judge proj?er to be mo excepted. A nr. n. It iM^inac trie Intention of the contract inn parties that the inhabitant* of hi* I!. M.'a territories in Kurope, and the inhabitant* of the I). H. shall, in rcspect to commerce between the ! Maid territories, be placed on the footing of tke I moMt favored nations it is agreed thatincaie! either of the contracting parties ahal) herenfttr j?rai>^ any additional a<h> ntage in commerce or navigation to any F.tiropean nation* a* to theim Kirtatioft or exportation to or from such other uropean nation and Ma B, M.'a territories in. Kurope, or to or from auch Kuronean nation alid the territories of the U. H. the citizeris and suW Jecta of the other contracting party shall likewise enjoy the some freely, where it fin* been freely grantedtosuchotherEuropean nation, and where conditionally granted, on the same terms and ceudiUop? on wlutli auch advantage vlmtl l?>w been granted or on terms and conditions wliicli may Ihj afterwards anted upon as equivalent Uiorcto by the contracting parties. Mrs* ttparaU t&ticlr. ? His Dritannic Majes ty agrees that the vowels of the United State* shall bfc admitted and hospitably received at the principal settlements of the llritish domi nions in the Kant-Indies, viz.. Calcutta, Madras*, llombay and the Prince of Wales' Island, and that tha,citl?.ens of the U. 8. moy fully carry on trade between the said principal settlement* & the said U. 8. in all articles of Which the impor tation and exnortation respectively, to and from the said territories shall not be entirely prohibi ted | provided only* tint it shall not bo lawful for them in any time of war between the British government and any other power or state what ever, to export from the wml territories with out the special permission of tho British govern ment, any military stores or naval store* or rice. Tile citixen* of the 1J. 8l shall pay for the vessels when admitted ? no other or higher I duty or charge than shall lie |M\yable on the ves i hcU of the most favored Karo|>eau nations j? | and they kIiuII nay no other or higher duties or targes on the im|H>rtutioii or exportation of th$ rgoes of ihe suid vessels, than shall Imj paya ble on the said articles when imported or ex ported in the vowel* of the uiost favored Kuro pean nation. Hut it is expressly agreed that the vessels of the I". H. shall not curry any articles from tho said principal settlements to any port or placo in the IJ. K. of America, where the same shall be unladen. \ It ia also understood thot tho permission grunted by tliit arlic?^ in unit to cxttinil to ullo\y the vessels of the I". 8. to enrrv on any of tho coasting tra?l? of the snid. Ilritish territories, but the vessel* of tlx; I*. S. having in the first instance proceeded to otic of tlie n?id principal settlements of the Itri<jsh dominions in the K, Indies, and then going with their originul car goes, or part thereof, from one of the said prin cipal settlement* to another, shall not be con sidered as carrying on the coasting trade. The vessels iif the. II. S. may also touch for refreshments, but not fur commerce, in the course of their voyage to or from the Hritish territories- in India*, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Island of St. Helena, or such other place* as may be in the possession of G. H. in the Afri can or Indian seas. It Iwing well understood that in all that regards this article, the citizens of the l>. fci. shall be sulnect in all^ respect* to tho law* anil regulations of tho Hritish government from time to timp established. Second trparaU article*? It is hereby agreed and declared that (he first separate article of tins uresent treaty fthall be limited in its duration to the period of two Tears from the date of the exchange of the ratification of the said treaty. 3. The American ptenlpotentiarte* to the ttrltlth plenipotentiarle*. ' ? Hurley 8(rcct, June 17, 181 JE. Hie undersigned hive the honor to acknow ledge the receipt of the note of Ilia B. M.'u pic nipotentiarics of the 16th enclosing their con tre prriet for the arrangement of the commer cial intercourse lietween the two countries. Anxious to ascertain with as little delay as possible whether there be any probability that such an arrangement can now f>6 concluded as shall be satisfactory to both parties \ the under" signed will not at this time enter into a discus sion of the subject, and leaving minor points for subsequent consid^tion, trill .only propose i lie following alterations to tne contre vrojet of His II. M.Ntjtlenipotentiarios, viz, : ? ? r-r-VWWW*^*l T J" * Art* First* to nrilistate the clause in the projet of the undersign ed,wliicli provided thut the saty$ duties, draw-backs, and bounties, should l>e paid and allowed in either country on the importation or exportation of nrticles the produce or growth or manufacture of His It. M.\? territories in Kurope, or of the U. 8. whether such importations or exportations should be in British vessels or vessels of the U. 8. Second ly, to reinstate the clatisc in tho prnjet of tha undersigned, which excepted from the provision to equalise tonnage duties, the British vessels bound to or front British possessions to which vessels of the IJ. 8. were not permanently ad mitted; qr to introduce a new article, providing that neither thu intercourse between the Unit ed Htatcs and llis Britannic Majesty's pos sessions in the West-Indies, nor that by sea between 1l?e nnid states and II. B< Mt's pos sessions in N. America, shall be affected hv any article in the treaty, but that each party shall re main in the complete fwsscssion of its rights in H?u 4a *?? ? T . |f\"7(7V{IC respect to such intercourse. Aiit. ,1. To reinstate in substance the article on that subject by the undersigned, so that the commerce by land or inland navigation, sanc tioned bv the article be confined to that which may be carried on between the citizens of the I 8. and bin B. M.'s subjects ; and so as not to pre clude the citizens oftlie U. 8. from carrying nr ticles of the growth) produce or manufacture of the said states down the river 8t. I?awrence as far at least as Montreal, and down the waters of Lake t.'hamnlain as far nt least ns the 8t. Law rence | or it no satisfactory arrangement can qt present be formed on this subject, to omit the ar ete altogether. Ant* 4. To place generally each nation on the footing of the most favore'd nation, without restricting that privilege as relates to the citi zens of tlie IJ. 8. to the commerce with his B. M.'s territories in Kurone. Second separate article to be omitted. The undersigned will have the honor to -wait on Ids B. M.*s plenipotentiaries on Monday the 10th ihst. at two o'clock, at tho office for trade, when the undersigned will be ready to eommu ideate to them their filial determination on tho proponed olteiations. The undersigned request II. II. M.'s plenipotentiaries to accept, Higned by thrt American 1'lonipolehtiaiiw.^