GENERAL HISTOR Y: 
tion of land as a settlement to 
every warrior of the Creeks who 
took an active part in favour of 
the United States in the late war. 
The Creeks are also required to 
abstain from all intercourse with 
any British or Spanish post or 
town; and other articles are add- 
ed, denoting the separate condi- 
tion to which they were reduced 
by the hostilities exercised against 
them. 
The naval force of the United 
States which had been set free by 
the peace with Great Britain, was 
usefully and honourably employed 
in avenging the piracies of the 
Barbary States upon the com- 
merce of the Americans, and com- 
pelling them to a future pacific 
conduct. A squadron command- 
ed by Commodore Decatur sailed 
to the Mediterranean, and on 
June 20th engaged an Algerine 
fleet, two ships of which were 
taken, one being that of the ad- 
miral. After this victory he pro- 
ceeded to Algiers, the Dey of 
which speedily entered intoatrea- 
ty, by which the tribute demanded 
from the Americans was for ever 
relinquished. Decatur then, an- 
choring in the bay of Tunis, de- 
manded satisfaction of the go- 
vernment for having suffered two 
prizes made by the Americans, 
and carried into that port, to be 
taken out by a British ship of 
war, and he obliged the bey to 
pay the damage into the hands of 
the American consul. Sailing 
thence to Tripoly he compelled 
by menaces the pashaw of that 
place to pay 25,000 dollars by 
way of indemnity. Commodore 
Bambridge, the American com- 
mander-in-chief, afterwards took 
precautionary measures for pre- 
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venting any future depredations 
on the commerce of the United 
States by the Barbary corsairs. 
The war with Great Britain 
having left the American ware- 
houses exhausted of their store of 
many necessary articles, as soon as 
peace was restored, their ships 
came in numbers to the British 
ports and renewed their usual 
commercial transactions, to the 
benefit of both countries. The 
sense each entertained of the mu- 
tual advantages to be derived 
from an intimate correspondence, 
and their disposition to forget 
past animosities, were agreeably 
displayed by a ‘convention to 
regulate the commerce between 
the territories of the United States 
of America and those of his Bri- 
tannic Majesty,”? agreed upon by 
the negociators on each part in 
London on July 3rd, and ratified 
by the American president in De- 
cember. Of its articles, the first 
stipulates generally a reciprocal 
liberty of commerce between the 
countries: 2. That no other du- 
ties on export or import on either 
side shall be imposed on the pro- 
duce or manufactures of each 
country, than on the like goods to 
or from any other country; and 
that the duties on shipping and 
goods imported shall be the same 
whether the vessels be British or 
American; the same _ principle 
also. to apply to drawbacks and 
bounties: 3. American vessels 
are to be admitted to trade with 
the four principal British settle- 
ments inthe East Indies, paying 
no higher duties than the most 
favoured nations; but they are 
not to carry their cargoes direct 
to any other port than in the 
United States, there to be un- 
