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the necessity of our annexing to the second arti¬ 
cle the clause respecting fire-arms and ammu¬ 
nition. 
E. This, as I stated to you yesterday, is 
wholly inadmissible. Fire-arms, I repeat, are not 
an article of merchandise. You have yourselves 
often insisted upon striking out every thing that 
was not so. The condition is not mutual. You 
would insist upon our selling you fire-arms and 
ammunition, and in your country you prohibit 
us and all the world from dealing in these arti- 
cles. 
13. As you reject our proposal on the plea of 
fire-arms and ammunition not being articles of 
commerce, we must reject the clause respecting 
the free exportation of gold and silver, as this 
also is not of a commercial nature.-- -E. Very 
well. Is the treaty then, in other respects, to 
be considered as settled? 
13. We wish to take the draft with us, and 
consider it further. The whole matter will be 
finally arranged in three days.— E . I assent to 
this. 
13 . You observed yesterday, that you would 
report “ truly” to your Government what might 
be stated by us in regard to our request for the 
restoration of the ceded provinces, and said? 
that if we could prove our inability to pay the 
