120 APPENDIX TO BRITISH COUNTER CASE. 



3. That the subjects of His Britannic Majesty and people of the 

 said United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to 

 take fish of every kind on the banks of Newfoundland and other 

 places where the inhabitants of both countries used formerly, viz. 

 before the last war between France and Britain, to fish ; and also to 

 dry and cure the same at the accustomed places, whether belonging 

 to His said Majesty or to the United States. And His Britannic 

 Majesty and the said United States will extend equal priviledges and 

 hospitality to each other's fishermen as to their own. 



4. That the navigation of the River Mississippi from its source to 

 the ocean shall for ever remain free and open, and that both there 

 and in all rivers, harbours, lakes, ports and places, belonging to His 

 Britannic Majesty or to the United States in any part of the world, 

 the merchants and merchant ships of the one and the other shall be 

 received, treated and protected like the merchants and merchant ships 

 of the Sovereign of the country. That is to say the British merchants 

 and merchant ships on the one hand shall enjoy in the United States, 

 and in all places belonging to them, the same protection and com- 

 mercial priviledges, and be liable only to the same charges and duties 

 as their own merchants and merchant ships. And on the other hand, 

 the merchants and merchant ships of the United States shall enjoy 

 in all places belonging to His Britannic Majesty the same protection 

 and commercial priviledges, and be liable only to the same charges 

 and duties as British merchants and merchant ships saving always 

 to the chartered trading companies of Great Britain, such exclusive 

 use and trade, and their respective posts and establishments, as neither 

 the other subjects of Great Britain, nor any the most favoured nation 

 participate in. 



A true copy of what has been agreed on between the American 

 Commissioners and me. to be submitted to His Majesty's consideration. 



RICHARD OSWALD. 

 PARIS, October 8, 1782. 



* Alteration to be made in the inclosed Treaty respecting the bound- 

 aries of Nova Scotia. Viz. : 



At the word East the true line shall be settled by Commissioners 

 as soon as conveniently may be after the war. 



73 No. 74. 1788, October 7: Extract from letter, Mr. Oswald to 



Mr. Townshend. 



PARIS 7th Oct r . 1782. 



SIR Referring to my letters of the 2nd and 3rd, by the courier 

 North, and to one of the 5th, which goes under this cover, I have the 

 honour to send you enclosed the plan or articles of a final treaty pro- 

 posed between Great Britain and the thirteen States of America; 

 which being settled, was delivered to me by Mr. Jay on the 5th in his 

 own handwriting, after it had been approved of by Dr. Franklin, as 

 he at same time informed me, and which by any conversation I pre- 

 viously had with those gentlemen, or since 1 received it, may be con- 

 sidered as including the whole of their demands, necessary or ad- 

 visable, and if agreed to on our part, as a complete and" finished 



