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citizens of the United States for losses experienced by the efi'ect of 

 measures intended to operate against the enemy pf Great Britain, 

 and which fell almost exclusively on a country, which was no party 

 to the war. The United States have never ceased, and at this time 

 continue to demand, from France, indemnity for the losses they 

 have experienced by the effect of the decrees of her government, 

 in violation of the law of nations. 



The cases of the second part of this article apply equally to 

 both the belligerent parties. They have been, during the war, 

 subjects of crimination on both sides. The American government 

 can give no stronger and more signal proof of its disapprobation of 

 every departure, under colour of its authority, from the established 

 ^sages of legitimate warfare between civilized nations, than by the 

 offer of mutual reparation. 



The article tixing a limitation for captures at sea, does not seem 

 to require any comment. 



The undersigned present their entire project in this specific 

 form, with the full expectation of receiving from the British pleni- 

 potentiaries their explicit answer respecting all the articles embra- 

 ced in it, and a project also reduced to specific propositions, and 

 embracing all the objects which they intend to bring forward. 



The undersigned renew to the British plenipotentiaries the as- 

 surance of their high consideration. 



JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, 

 J. A. BAYARD, 

 HENRY CLAY, 

 JONATHAN RUSSELL, 

 ALBERT GALLATIN, 

 To the Flenipotentiaries of His Britannic 



JVIajesty, k,c. Sec. iic. Ghent, 



Copy of a project of a treaty of peace submitted hy the Jlmerican to the 

 British Plenipotentiaries at Ghent, on the lOthday cfKov. 1814. 



Treaty of Peace and Amity between his Britannic Majesty and the 

 United States of America. 



His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America desirous 

 of terminating the war which has unhappily subsisted between the 

 two countries, and of restoring, upon principles of perfect recipro- 

 city, peace, friendship, and good understanding, between them, have 

 for that purpose, appointed their respective plenipotentiaries, that 

 is to say : His Britannic Majesty on his part has appointed the right 

 honourable James Lord Gambier, admiral of the White Squadron 

 of his Majesty's fleet, Henry Goulburn, Esquire, a member of the 

 Imperial Parliament and under Secretary of State, and WilUam 

 Adams, Esq. Doctor of Civil Laws ; and the President of the Unit- 



