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no objection to give to this part of the description a character of 

 reciprocity, so as to make it read " as far as their said respective ter- 

 ritories extend in that quarter." A copy is enclosed of our plan of a 

 fifth article, as also of the same article, with the description above 

 quoted, merely made reciprocal. 



It is proper to observe in this place, that the project of the British 

 commissioners contemplates what, of course, had not entered into our 

 plan, a permanent concession, on our part, of access, through our ter- 

 ritories in the northwestern quarter, to the River Mississippi, for the 

 purpose of enabling British subjects to enjoy the navigation of that 

 river, as secured to them by the treaty of peace and the treaty of 

 1794, and the like access to the rivers falling into the Mississippi from 

 the westward. The desired concession, however, amounts simply to a 

 right of passage, and is claimed, not only as an equivalent for such a 

 permanent adjustment of boundary as is here thought, or affected to 

 be thought, highly advantageous to us, and injurious to Great Brit- 

 ain, but (as regards access to the Mississippi) upon the idea, among 

 others, that the treaty of peace, which secures to Great Britain the 

 free navigation of that river, appears to have looked to it, in common 

 with the treaty of 17G3, as overreaching our northern limit, and con- 

 sequently as being accessible to the British in the territory of Hud- 

 son's Bay. It is probable that this demand, so far as respects the 

 waters falling into the Mississippi from the westward, would not be 

 persisted in, if no other difficulty should present itself. 



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We have the honor to be, &c. 



Jas. Monroe. 



Wm. PlNKNEr. 

 [Enclosure.] 



Additional and explanatory articles, signed the day of 



1807, to he added to the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation 

 bet"-' in His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, 

 signed at London, the 31st day of December, 1S0G. 



Whereas, by the second article of the treaty of amity, commerce, 



and navigation, concluded at London, on the 31st day of December, 



L806, In! with His Majesty and the United States or America, it is 



agreed thai the Beveral articles of the treaty of 1794, "which have 



expired, nor us yet had their full operation and effect, shall be 



Confirmed ill their best form and in their full tenor: and that the com 



tracting panic- will also, from time to time, enter into friendly 



explanation-' on the Subjed of the -aid articles. \'n\- the purpose of 



removing all such doubts as may ari ". or have arisen, as to the true 

 imp. !-i of the ame, a- well a for tic purpo e of rendering the -aid 

 articles more conformable to their mutual v. ami convenience; " 



■ I ii being the incere desire of I!i Britannic Majesty ami of the 

 United Si rtain points should b< ined as to pro 



mote mutual satisfaction and friend hip; ami, for this purpo <■, the 



pective plenipotentiaries who concluded and igned (he aforesaid 

 treaty of the dlsl of December, L806, having already exchanged their 

 full p . bave, in virtue of the same, entered into these additional 



and ex] Lanatory an i<;> 



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