50 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Albert Gallatin, citizens of 

 the United States ; and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting 

 in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, has named for his pleni- 

 potentiaries the Right Honourable Frederick John Robinson, vice- 

 president of the committee of Privy Council for trade and plantations, 

 joint paymaster of His Majesty's forces, and a member of the Im- 

 perial Parliament; Henry Goulburn, Esq., a member of the Imperial 

 Parliament, and Under Secretary of State; and "William Adams, 

 Esq., doctor of civil laws: and the said plenipotentiaries, having 

 mutually produced and shown their said full powers, and exchanged 

 copies of the same, have agreed on and concluded the following 

 articles, viz: 



Art. 1. There shall be, between the territories of the United States 

 of America and all the territories of His Britannic Majesty in Eu- 

 rope, a reciprocal liberty of commerce. The inhabitants of the two 

 countries, respectively, shall have liberty freely and securely to come 

 with their ships and cargoes to all such places, ports, and rivers in 

 the territories aforesaid, to which other foreigners are permitted to 

 come, to enter into the same, and to remain and reside in any parts of 

 the said territories, respectively ; also to hire and occupy houses and 

 warehouses for the purposes of their commerce; and, generally, the 

 merchants and traders of each nation, respectively, shall enjoy the 

 most complete protection and security for their commerce, but subject 

 always to the laws and statutes of the two countries, respectively.' 



Art. 2. No higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importa- 

 tion into the United States of any articles the growth, produce, or 

 manufacture of His Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, and 

 no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into 

 the territories of His Britannic Majesty in Europe of any articles 

 the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, than are. 

 or shall be, payable on the like articles being the growth, produce, 

 or manufacture of any other foreign country; nor shall any higher 

 or other duties or charges be imposed in either of the two countries, 

 on the exportation of any articles to the United States, or to His 

 Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, respectively, than such as 

 are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign 

 country; nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation 

 or importation of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture 

 of the United States, or of His Britannic Majesty's territories in 

 Europe, to or from the said territories of His Britannic Majesty in 

 Europe, or to or from the said United States, which shall not equally 

 extend to all other nations. 



No higher or other duties or charges shall be imposed, in any of the 

 ports of the United States, on British vessels, than those payable in 

 the same ports by vessels of the United States; nor in the ports of 

 any of His Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe on the vessels 

 of the United States, than shall be payable in the same ports on 

 British vessels. 



The same duties shall be paid on the importation into the United 

 States of any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of His 

 Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, whether such importation 

 shall be in vessels of the United States or in British vessels; and the 

 same duties shall be paid on the importation into the ports of any of 

 His Britannic Majesty's territories in Europe, of any article the 



