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that, with respect to their limits, the British Government is pre- 

 pared, as the least objectionable arrangement to the United States, to 

 take the Treaty of Greenville, subject to certain modifications, as a 

 basis for negotiation ; and having agreed as to the general boundaries, 

 to stipulate, mutually with the American Government against any 

 acquisition, by purchase, on the part of either State. 



I trust that this outline will enable you, without further delay, to 

 ascertain whether the negotiation can now be prosecuted with a pros- 

 pect of advantage, or whether the conferences must not be suspended 

 until the American negotiators can receive further instructions from 

 their Government. In the latter case you will, however, declare to 

 them, that the British Government, upon the resumption of the con- 

 ferences, will not consider themselves bound by anything which has 

 hitherto passed, or precluded from regulating its conduct by the then 

 state of the war the causes which obstruct an immediate adjustment 

 originating exclusively with the negotiators on the part of the United 

 States. 



I trust the American Commissioners will continue to do justice to 

 the frank and explicit conduct which your instructions have enabled 

 you to adopt, and to the desire manifested by the British Government 

 to bring forward nothing which can be deemed derogatory to the 

 honour of the American Government, or which can tend unnecessarily 

 to delay the restoration of peace. 



I am, &c. CASTLEREAGH. 



P. S. Care must be taken, in any settlement to be made, to remove 

 all doubts as to the islands in Passamaquoddy Bay being considered 

 as falling within the British boundary there. 



C. 



Lord Bathurst to the Commissioners at Ghent. 



FOREIGN OFFICE, October 18, 1814- 



MY LORD AND GENTLEMEN: I have had the honour of receiving 

 your despatch No. 9, transmitting a copy of a note from the American 

 Plenipotentiaries. The American Plenipotentiaries having in that 

 note consented to accept, provisionally, the article which you pro- 

 posed, relating to the pacification of the Indian tribes or nations, 

 and having expressed a wish that the British Plenipotentiaries should 

 now communicate the projet of a treaty embracing all the points 

 deemed material to Great Britain, the American Plenipotentiaries 

 engaging, on their part, to deliver, in a counter-pro jet, in respect to 

 all the articles to which they may not agree, you are instructed to 

 state that the three material points which remain for consideration 

 are the following: 



First, with respect to the rights of naturalisation and the question 

 of impressment, and others relating to maritime laws. It seems 

 agreed, by both parties, that the pacification of Europe renders any 

 arrangement on these points unnecessary, and you are authorised to 

 state that none will be required by Great Britain, but that, if it shall 

 be insisted that these points shall be in any way named in the treaty, 

 they must, in that case, be definitively stated, and the British Gov- 

 ernment have already stated that they never can recede from what 



