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The three made a unanimous award at Providence, Rhode Island, 

 in 1798, fixing the Schoodiac as the true river St. Croix, thus giving effect 

 to the British claim, the United States having put forward the Maga- 

 guadavic. 



2. The amount the United States should pay for debts which British 

 creditors were prevented from recovering, was by Article VI to be 

 determined by five commissioners, two appointed by His Majesty, two 

 by the President, and the fifth by the unanimous vote of these four; if 

 they could not agree, the two commissioners on one side were to propose 

 one person, the two on the other side another person, and of these two 

 so proposed, one should be chosen by lot. 



The British representatives were Thomas Macdonald and Henry 

 Pye Rich; the American, Thomas Fitzsimons and James Innes. They 

 could not agree on the fifth, and accordingly a lot was taken resulting 

 in the selection of John Guillemard, of London, the nominee of the 

 British commissioners. Colonel Innes, dying, was succeeded by Samuel 

 Sitgreaves. The Board seems to have been at loggerheads from the 

 beginning; faults of temper showed themselves, the reference was a 

 failure and the Board dissolved. 



The Governments, finally, in 1802, entered into a Convention where- 

 by £600,000 was to be paid by the United States in full. 



3. The amount due to American citizens for illegal seizures, etc., was 

 by Article VII left to a Board of five commissioners selected in the same 

 way. The British commissioners were Drs. John Nichol and John 

 Anstey; one of the American was Christopher Gore, the preceptor of 

 Daniel Webster, and at the time United States attorney for Massa- 

 chusetts. He was afterwards Governor of Massachusetts and a member 

 of the Senate of the United States. The other was William Pinkney, 

 who had been a member of the Maryland Legislature and who afterwards 

 became Minister to London, and Attorney-General of the United States. 

 He was a man of great ability and sound judgment. These chose by lot 

 Colonel John Trumbull the painter, as fifth Commissioner. 



Dr. Nichol retired from the Board in November 1798, when he was 

 knighted and became King's Advocate. Twenty-five years later he 

 became judge of the High Court of Admiralty, having been in the mean- 

 time Dean of Arches and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 

 He was succeeded on the Board by Dr. Maurice Swabey, also of Doctors' 

 Commons. 



Much delay took place in this arbitration, due chiefly to the trouble 

 in that under Article VI ; but when that was out of the way, the arbitra- 

 tors speedily agreed, finishing their labours February, 1804. A sum of 

 £2,330,000 or 5(^11,650,000 was paid by Britain on this head. 



