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133 No. 132. 1783, April 19: Extract from letter, Mr. Fox to 



Dr. Franklin. 



ST. JAMES, April 19, 1783. 

 * * * * * * * 



Permit me, sir, to take this opportunity of assuring you how 

 happy I should esteem myself if it were to prove my lot to be the 

 instrument of completing a real and substantial reconciliation 

 between two countries formed by nature to be in a state of friend- 

 ship one with the other, and thereby to put the finishing hand to a 

 building, in laying the first stone of which I may fairly boast that 

 I had some share. 



I have the honour to be, with every sentiment of regard and esteem, 

 sir, your most obedient, humble servant, 



C. J. FOX. 



No. 133. 1783, May %1: Extract from letter, Mr. W. Livingston to 



Mr. Jay. 



. . . The Treaty is universally applauded; and the American Com- 

 missioners who are concerned in making it, have rendered them- 

 selves very popular by it. ... 



No. 134. 1783, June 1: Clause proposed by Mr. Hartley* 



JUNE 1, 1783. 



It is agreed that the citizens of the United States of America shall 

 be permitted to import into, and export from, any port or place of 

 the territories belonging to the crown of Great Britain, in American 

 ships, any goods, wares, and merchandise which might have been 

 so imported by the inhabitants of the British American colonies be- 

 fore the commencement of the late war, upon payment of the same 

 duties and charges as the like sort of goods or merchandise are now, 

 or may be, subject and liable to if imported or exported by British 

 subjects, in British ships, into and from any port or place of the ter- 

 ritories belonging to the crown of Great Britain : Provided, however, 

 that the citizens of the United States shall not have any right or 

 claim, under this convention, to carry on any direct intercourse of 

 commerce between the British West Indian Islands and the ports of 

 Great Britain. 



It is agreed, likewise, that the subjects of Great Britain shall bo 

 permitted to import into, and to export from, any part of the terri- 

 tories of the United States of America, in British ships, any goods, 

 wares, and merchandise which might have been so imported or ex- 

 ported by the subjects of Great Britain before the commencement of 

 the late war, upon payment of the same duties and charges as the 

 like sort of goods, wares, and merchandise are now, or may be, liable 

 to if imported or exported in American ships by the citizens of the 

 United States of America. 



a This clause was proposed by Mr. Hartley, the British Commissioner, during 

 the negotiations between the date of the preliminary articles and the execution 

 of the definitive Treaty. It was not agreed to. 



