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In forbearing to insist upon the discussion of subjects /deeply 

 involving interests important to their country, and upon which the 

 undersigned view the proposals offered by them for consideration 

 as founded on principles the most moderate and conciliatory, they 

 give the strongest evidence of the anxious wish of their government 

 that the negotiation should he brought to a happy issue. 



Sincerely participating in the desire expressed by the British 

 plenipotentiaries, of endeavouring to reconcile the pretensions of 

 both governments on the few subjects remaining for discussion, the 

 undersigned have also assented to most of the alterations, proposed 

 by the British plenipotentiaries, to those parts of the project which 

 they have not entirely rejected. 0:^ [To some of these alterations 

 the undersigned are compelled by their duty to object. They have 

 already stated, and now repeat, that, whilst requiring of Great 

 Britain no sacrifice whatever, the government of the United States 

 has not authorized the undersigned to agree to any stipulation in- 

 volving any cession of the territory, or the dereliction of apy of the 

 essential rights of the people of the United States. 



The objections of the undersigned are to one of the alterations 

 suggested by the British plenipotentiaries in the first article ; to 

 some parts of the preamble of the third article ; and to the eighth 

 article ;] and they have also some other verbal alterations to sug- 

 gest. They request a conference, at such lime and place as may 

 suit the British plenipotentiaries, for the purpose of discussino* 

 those points, and of agreeing on the places and times left in blank 

 in several of the articles. 



The undersigned renew to the Bfitiih plenipotentiaries the as- 

 surance of their high consideration. 



JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, 

 J. A. BAYARD, 

 HENRY CLAY, 

 JONATHAN RUSSELL, 

 ALBERT GALLATIN. 



To the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic 



majesty, &c. &c. fee* 



Extract of a law of the United States passed July Qlh, 1812. 



" Sec. 6. And he it further enacted. That the President of the 

 United States be, and he is hereby, authorized, to give, at any- 

 time, within six months after the passage of this act, passports for 

 the safe transportation of any ship or other property belonging to 

 British subjects, and which is now within the limits of the United 

 States," 



British NoU JVo, 8, 

 The undersigned have the honour to acknowledge the recei})t 

 of the note addressed tg them by the American plenipotentiariesj 



