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JAY TO EDMUND RANDOLPH. 87
Royal Hotel, Pall-Mall,
4th September, 1794.
Mr. Jay presents his compliments to Lord Grenville, and requests the favor of his Lordship to name
a time for receiving Mr. Jay on the subject of the
proposed treaties. In the meantime Mr. Jay has the
honour of submitting the remarks herewith enclosed
to his Lords-hip's consideration.
Remarks on that part of the second article of the
projet of a treaty for terminating all differences
between Great Britain and the United States of
America, which purports a cession or dereliction
by the latter of the country lying to the westward
and northward of either of the two lines therein
proposed and described.
For this cession or dereliction two reasons are
assigned, viz.:
ist. That it is now understood that the river Mississippi would, in no part thereof, be intersected by a
west line from the Lake of the Woods.
2d. That it was stipulated by the treaty of peace
that the navigation of the river Mississippi should be
free to both parties.
Admitting the fact in the first of these reasons to
be well founded, it shows only that the northern and
western lines of the United States do not meet and
close, and, therefore, that it is necessary to fix on a
line for closing them. But no argument thence results
that either Great Britain or the United States ought
to cede or to acquire any territory further than what
such closing line may possibly render unavoidable.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 4 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000114 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO EDMUND RANDOLPH. 87 Royal Hotel, Pall-Mall, 4th September, 1794. Mr. Jay presents his compliments to Lord Grenville, and requests the favor of his Lordship to name a time for receiving Mr. Jay on the subject of the proposed treaties. In the meantime Mr. Jay has the honour of submitting the remarks herewith enclosed to his Lords-hip's consideration. Remarks on that part of the second article of the projet of a treaty for terminating all differences between Great Britain and the United States of America, which purports a cession or dereliction by the latter of the country lying to the westward and northward of either of the two lines therein proposed and described. For this cession or dereliction two reasons are assigned, viz.: ist. That it is now understood that the river Mississippi would, in no part thereof, be intersected by a west line from the Lake of the Woods. 2d. That it was stipulated by the treaty of peace that the navigation of the river Mississippi should be free to both parties. Admitting the fact in the first of these reasons to be well founded, it shows only that the northern and western lines of the United States do not meet and close, and, therefore, that it is necessary to fix on a line for closing them. But no argument thence results that either Great Britain or the United States ought to cede or to acquire any territory further than what such closing line may possibly render unavoidable. |
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