137 PART III. 



DOCUMENTS BEAEING ON THE TEEATY OF GHENT, 1814. 

 1814: Ghent Negotiations. 



[The British peace-plenipotentiaries were Lord Gambier and 

 Messrs. Henry Goulburn and William Adams. 



[The American plenipotentiaries were Messrs. John Quincy Adams, 

 J. A. Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Eussell, and Albert Gallatin. 



[In the appendix to the United States' Case (pages 240-261) may 

 be found the instructions issued to the United States' negotiators 

 (June 25, 1814) and the protocols and official communications. Suffi- 

 cient of these latter documents to make intelligible other related docu- 

 ments are here repeated.] 



No. 1. 1813, April 15 : Extract from letter, Mr. Monroe, Secretary of 

 State, to the American Commissioners. 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE, April 15, 1813. 



The article in the treaty of 1794, which allows British traders from 

 Canada and the North West Company, to carry on trade with the Indian 

 tribes, within the limits of the United States, must not be renewed. 

 The pernicious effects of this privilege have been most sensibly felt 

 in the present war, by the influence which it gave to the traders over 

 the Indians, whose whole force has been wielded by means thereof 

 against the inhabitants of our Western States and territories. You 

 will avoid also any stipulation which might restrain the United States 

 from increasing their naval force to any extent they may think proper, 

 on the lakes held in common ; or excluding the British traders from 

 the navigation of the lakes and rivers, exclusively within our own 

 jurisdiction. 



o. 2. ISllf., August 8: Extract from Notification given by the 

 British to the American Plenipotentiaries at the first Conference. 



That the British Government did not intend to grant the United 

 States gratuitously the privileges formerly granted by treaty to them 

 of fishing within the limits of the British sovereignty, and of using 

 the shores of the British territories for purposes connected with the 



fisheries. 



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