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No. 3. 1805^ November 30: Extract from Memoirs of Mr. J. Q. 



Adams. 



WASHINGTON, 30. Paid visits this morning to the President, whom 

 I found at home, and the Secretaries of State and of the Navy, whom 

 I did not see. Called also on Mr. Otis at his office, where I met Mr. 

 Plumer. At the President's door I met Mr. Israel Smith and Mr. 

 Gaillard, who were on the same visit as myself. The President men- 

 tioned a late act of hostility committed by a French privateer near 

 Charleston, South Carolina, and said that we ought to assume as a 

 principle that the neutrality of our territory should extend to the 

 Gulf Stream, which was a natural boundary, and within which we 

 ought not to suffer any hostility to be committed. Mr. Gaillard 

 observed that on a former occasion in Mr. Jefferson's correspondence 

 with Genest, and by an Act of Congress at that period, we had 

 seemed only to claim the usual distance of three miles from the coast ; 

 but the President replied that he had then assumed that principle 

 because Genest by his intemperance forced us to fix on some point, 

 and we were not then prepared to assert the claim of jurisdiction to 

 the extent we are in reason entitled to : but he had then taken care 

 expressly to reserve the subject for future consideration, with a view 

 to this same doctrine for which he now contends. I observed that 

 it might be well, before we ventured to assume a claim so broad, to 

 wait for a time when we should have a force competent to maintain 

 it. But in the mean time, he said, it was advisable to squint at it, 

 and to accustom the nations of Europe to the idea that we should 

 claim it in future. The subject was not pushed any farther. 



No. 4. 1815, July 19: Letter, Mr. Baker to Viscount Castlereagh. 



WASHINGTON, July 19, 1816. 



MY LORD, Mr. Monroe having requested an interview with me at 

 the Department of State, I accordingly waited upon him at the time 

 appointed. 



He stated that he was desirous of speaking to me upon one or two 

 points, the first of which related to the establishment which the 

 United States had possessed before the war on the Pacific Ocean at 

 the mouth of the Columbia Eiver, but which had been broken up by 

 a naval force sent by the British Government for that purpose. He 

 conceived that it fell within the meaning of the 1st Article of the 

 Treaty of Ghent, and ought to be restored, for otherwise it would 

 have been particularly excepted in the Treaty, as had been the case 

 with the Passamaquoddy Islands, and requested to know whether I 

 agreed in that opinion. 



I replied that I had not considered the subject which was unex- 

 pected by me; that in fact I did not immediately call to mind what 

 was the result of the expedition to which he alluded, and was not 

 aware that any persons whatsoever had been left upon the spot who 

 could effect the restoration required, should the case be thought to 

 come under the Treaty, but that I was ignorant of any transaction 

 between the two Governments which recognized the claim of the 

 United States to any part of the Coast of the Pacific Ocean. 



