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America, and to navigate all the. lakes 
and rivers thereof ; and alfo to carry on 
tommerce therein, fubjeét.to the regu. 
lation mentioned in the faid treaty :— 
But that fince the making of the treaty 
of 1794, the United States of America 
have concluded a treaty of peace and 
friendfhip with feveral tribes of Indians, 
in which it was ftipulated, that no per- 
fon. could be permitted to refide at any of 
the towns or hunting camps of the faid 
Indian tribes as a trader, who fhould not 
be furnished with a licence for that pur- 
pote, under the authority of the United 
States: and as the laft mentioned ftipu- 
- lation had excited doubts, whether in its 
execution it would not interfere with 
the due execution of the above recited 
article of the treaty of 1794; and it 
being the fincere defire of both parties 
to remove ali doubts, and to promote 
mutual fatisfaétion, they, by their agents, 
have agreed to the prefent explanatory 
article, in which it is declared, “ That 
no ftipulations, in any treaty fubfequently 
concluded by either of the contracting 
parties, with any other ftate or nation, 
or with any Indian tribe, can be under- 
ftood to derogate in any manner from 
the rights and free intercourfe of coin- 
merce fecured by the above recited ar- 
ticle) oF the treaty of 1794, to ‘the 
fubjeéts of Great Britain, and to the 
Citizens of thes United States, and In- 
dians dwelling on either fide the boundary 
line aforefaid ; but that all the faid per- 
fons fhail remain at full liberty freely to 
pafs and repafs, by land or inland navi- 
gation, into the refpetive territories and 
countries of the contracting parties, on 
either fide of the faid boundary line, and 
freely to carry on trade and commerce 
with each other, according to the fti- 
pulations of the faid treaty of 1794.” 
By intelligence from admiral fir John 
Jervis, commander in chief of his Ma- 
jefty’s fhips in the Mediterranean, it ap- 
pears that, in confequence of the ex- 
pulfion of the Englith from Leghorn, the 
viceroy of Corfica had ordered an expe- 
dition againft Porto Ferrajo, belonging 
to the archduke of Tufcany ; and that 
accordingly fome Britifh troops were 
landed at ten o’clock at night, on the 
oth of July, near that town, under the 
direétion of captain Stuart, of the Pe- 
terell; after which major Duncan, who 
commanded them on fhore, immediately 
marched clofe to the gate an the weft 
fide; and at five o'clock the next morn- 
‘ing, he fent in to the governor the 
viceroy’s letter, containing the terms 
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which would be granted to the town, 
and gave him two hours for his aniwer. 
At half-paft five, admiral Nelfon, who 
commanded the expedition by fea, arrived 
on fhore. The governor requefted a 
Jonger time. In this interval the Britith 
officers took occafion to affure the Tuf- 
can inhabirants that they fhould receive 
no injury whatever in their perfons er 
property. The place furrendered about 
ten o'clock the fame morning. It was 
defended by one hundred pieces of can- 
non, and garrifened by four hundred 
regulars, befides militia. 
In our laft, time permitted us only to” 
mention incidentally the furrender of the 
French in the iflands of St. Vincent’s 
and Grenada. 
The Britifh troops deftined to att in 
both thofe iflands were embarked from 
St. Lucia, the 3d of June, in two divi- 
fions: on the 8th the troops for St. Vin= 
cent’s difembarked in Kingfton-bay, and 
on the 9th began their march againft the 
French pofts. On the next day, the 
French were attacked in their pofitions 
on the Vigie; and, after a very fharp 
conteft, were driven from their firft, 
fecond, and third redoubts, to their prin- 
cipal poft on the New Vigie. ‘Their 
communication with the Charib country 
having been cut off, and the Charibs 
themfelves having been forced to retire, 
the French furrendered by capitulation, 
on the rith of June, and all their pofts 
in the ifland were to be giyen up as foon 
as poffible. 
The attack upon the Frenchy in: Gre 
nada was equally fuccefsful. On the 
roth of June the French commandant, 
Jotfey, furrendered the French pofts on 
the ifland by capitulation; and on the 
1gth the Britifh were in full poffeflion of 
every eftablifhed poft which the enemy 
had in Grenada. Fedon, and a few of 
his affociates, efcaped into the woods, 
after having (it is reported) barbaroufly 
murdered all the white people who were 
prifoners at Morne Quaquo. 
The lofs of the Britifh, in the attack 
on the French in St. Vincent’s, was one 
captain, one enfign, 4 ferjeants, and 31 
privates, killed ; and one major, 5 caps 
tains, 4 lieutenants, one enfign, 15 fer= 
jeants, and 109 privates, wounded. 
The lofs of the Britith in Grenada was 
not quite fo great as in ‘St. Wincent’s. 
The French inhabitants of Grenada, 
who, through fear, or compulfion, as 
fome of them alleged, or through inclis 
nation, as was generally believed by the 
Englith, had joined the infurgents, came, 
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