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HISTORY OF THE [book vi. 
APPENDIX TO CHAP. IV. OF BOOK VI. 
HIS work having (1799) reached a third edition, it 
JL is with infinite satisfaction the author has an oppor¬ 
tunity, in this place, of presenting to his readers the 12th 
article of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation 
between his Britannic majesty and the United States of 
America, concluded at London the 19th of November 
1794, and finally ratified by the American house of repre¬ 
sentatives on the 30th of April 1796. What effect the 
author’s arguments in the preceding chapter produced on 
this occasion, he presumes not to say. That some of the 
facts which he stated had a very considerable influence on 
the minds of his majesty’s ministers, he has been assured 
from high authority ; and indeed it were injurious to the 
character of those ministers to suppose that they had not. 
The 12th article is expressed in the words following : 
“ XII. His majesty consents, that it shall and may be law- 
“ ful, during the time hereinafter limited, for the citizens 
“ of the United States to carry to any of his majesty’s 
“ islands and ports in the West Indies from the United 
“ States, in their own vessels, not being above the burthen 
“ of seventy tons, any goods or merchandises, being of 
“ the growth, manufacture, or produce of the said States, 
“ which it is or may be lawful to carry to the said islands 
“ or ports from the said States in British vessels; and that 
“ the said American vessels shall be subject there to no 
