A. D. 1790. 20f> 



taken from the Britifli fubjeds on the north-weft coaft of America in 

 April 1789, and to make reparation for all fubfequent ads of violence*. 



3) The right of navigating and fiiliing in the Pacitic ocean, and of 

 landing and making fettlements for the fake of carrying on their com- 

 merce, was equally fecured to both nations, under the following reftric- 

 tions. 



4) Britifli fubjecls muft not make the navigation and fifliery in the Pa- 

 cific a pretext for carrying on an illicit trade with the Spanifli fettle- 

 ments, and muft therefor not approach within ten fea leagues of any 

 part of the coaft occupied by the Spaniards f . 



5) The Spanifti and Briufli fubjeds have equal liberty to trade at Noot- 

 ka, and in all parts of the north-weft coaft of America, and the iflands 

 adjacent, fituated to the northward of the fettlements already occupied 

 by Spain, without any hinderance from any fettlement made, or to be 

 made, by either nation after April 1789. 



6) No fettlement is to be made by either nation on the eaft or weft 

 coafts of South America to the foutliward of the fettlements already 

 made by Spain ; both nations having the liberty of landing in the pro- 

 fecution of their fiftieries, and of ereding temporary huts, &c. for their 

 accommodation in that buftnefs. 



7) In cafe of any infradion of this convention the officers of either 

 power muft refrain from violence, and content themfelves with repre- 

 fenting the affair to their court, that it may be amicably adjufted. 



Thus was this difpute, which for fome time was fuppofed to have a 

 very threatening afped, terminated without a war : and henceforth our 

 adventurers in thofe feas know better upon what ground they ftand. It 

 is to be lamented, however, that the expenfe of the armament provided 

 on this occafion was above three millions, a fum, which even the grofs 

 proceeds of the trade in difpute will moft probably never be equal to 

 the intereft of. 



The manufadure of fugar from the juice of a fpecies of maple tree, . 

 which grows fpontaneoufly in many of the uncultivated parts of Ame- 

 rica, was faid to have now become an objed of confiderable importance. 

 It appears to have been firft attempted about the year 1752 : and it was 

 occafionally attended to by fome of the farmers of New England as a 

 branch of rural econom.y, but upon fo contraded a fcale, that it was 

 thought a great matter, when one man made about 6co pounds of it m 

 the year 1765. During the American war the difficulty of procuring 

 Weft-India fugar turned the attention of a greater number of people to 



* The biifinefs was not finally fettled till the f It may be aflieJ, whether our commanders are 



izt'n of Februaiy 1793, when Sir Ralph Wood- furnijhed with a coinplctt' lid of the Spanilh fettk- 



ford and Don Manuel de las Heras figned a con- ments, the knowlege of their pofition, and the 



vention at Whitehall, whereby the fnm to be paid means of mcafiiring thirty miles of call-and-wtft 



by Spain, befides the rcflitution of the vefTels, was diftance from a coail unknown to them, and per- 



fixed at 210^000 dollars. liaps unfeen. 



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