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American plenipotentiaries, communicated in their note of the 21st 

 instant, all the points upon which they were instructed to insist. 



The American plenipotentiaries have objected to one essential part 

 of the projet thus communicated : but before the undersigned can 

 enter into the discussion of this objection, they must require from 

 the American plenipotentiaries that, pursuant to their engagement, 

 they will deliver a contre-projet, containing all their objections to the 

 points submitted by the undersigned, together with a statement of 

 such furtl • points as the Government of the United States consider 

 to be material. 



The undersigned are authorized to state distinctly that the article 

 as to the pacification and right of the Indian nations having been 

 accepted, they have brought forward in their note of the 21st instant 

 all the propositions which they have to offer. They have no further 

 demands to make, no other stipulations on which they are instructed 

 to insist, and they are empowered to sign a treaty of peace forthwith, 

 in conformity with those stnfed in their former note. 



The undersigned trust, therefore, that the American plenipoten- 

 tiaries will no longer hesitate to bring forward, in the form of 

 articles or otherwise, as they may prefer, those specific propositions 

 upon which they are empowered to sign a treaty of peace between 

 the two countries. 



The undersigned avail themselves of the present opportunity to 

 renew to the plenipotentiaries of the United States the assurance of 

 their high consideration. 



Gambler, 



Henry Goulburn, 



William Adams. 



The American to the British plenipotentiaries. 



Ghent, November 10, 1811^. 



The undersigned have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the 

 note addressed to them by His Britannic Majesty's plenipotentiaries 

 on the 31st ultimo. 



The undersigned had considered an interchange of the projet of 

 a treaty as the course best calculated to exclude useless and desultory 

 discussion, to confine the attention of both parties to the precise 

 object- to be adjusted between the two nations, and to hasten the 

 conclusion of the peace so desirable to both. Finding in the note of 

 the British plenipotentiaries of the 21s1 ultimo a mere reference to 

 the points proposed by them in the first conference, with the offer 

 of assuming the basis of uti possidetis, on which (he undersigned 

 had. in substance, already declined to treat, they did not consider it 

 as the projet of a treaty, presented in compliance with their request. 

 They proposed in their note of the 24th ultimo, thai the exchange of 

 the two projets bould I"' made at the same time. And it is not 

 without -nine surprise thai the undersigned observe in the note to 

 which they now have tin- honor of replying, that the British pleni- 

 potentiaries consider their note of the 21s1 ultimo us containing the 

 projet of :i treaty, to which the undersigned are supposed to be 

 pledged to return ;i oontri projet. 



Believing thai where both parties are sincerely desirous of bringing 

 a negotiation to a happy termination, the advantage of giving or 



