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presented in a manner more impartial, in the Louisville ?"»>''= Ad- 

 vertiser, where, among other things, it has been inquired how, it the 

 proposal was so very exceptionable it could, under ap circum- 

 stances have received the sanction or signature of Mr. Clay 



The following editonoZ article in the Irankiort Argus, ol 18th 

 July, seems intended to answer that question, and although con- 

 tain^^g some severe strictures upon - the Secretary " nung^s with 

 them some candid admissions, in a spirit upon which I would with 

 equal candour animadvert. 

 From the Argus of Western America, Trankfor., ICenlucky, ISlh J"ly, 18®. 



THE GHENT MISSION. 



" Mr Penn does not understand the circumstances attending the 

 Ghent negotiation, or he wilfully conceals the truth. 



". The first instructions given to our commissioners were that 

 thev should not agree to any stipulation by which the pre-ex.sting 

 right ol British subjects to trade with the Indians iving wi h.n our 

 S ies, should be revived. The object of this •>"'--- 

 to cut off the means of British influence among the Indians, which 

 we had felt so fatally in that war. 



" While acting under these instructions, it ""^ Py»P°^f.t; ^'.f . * 

 Gallaiin to offer ,'he British the free "-S""-,"' '„^th' 'the Ib^r- 

 with access to it through our territories, on condition that the iioer 

 Ty to ?^e and cure fish^n the coast within 'h; «-'-- jurisdict on 



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"""Sutenu*nUy'Towever, the overthrow of Napoleon having 

 left !s"t:XS'single.handed with the undivide VO^'^^^o^<^J^f_ 



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iS^:^^^^^ Ltif tll-e B-'ti^^tl "^Ht by 

 .. At the commencemen of the wa , he Brit ^^^^^^ .,^^^^ .^^ 



treaty, not only to «»"Sa'ef\f;;";^rs oners "ere instructed 

 our western Indians. Of course our comm ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ 



to consent to the ^^"''"""""^^"'^/''''"^ra nroposition relative to 

 be procured. . Under these instructions a propo,^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ 



the Mississippi and the "^^^^'i^'f'dVnV ent to tire British 

 Z^:Z::^^^r^^:^ .I^■.Ht tonav.gate the 



