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96 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
real geography of the country, it is certain that no further
dispute could exist on that point.
But, if we have from the best information on the subject
sufficient reason to believe that no such line can be drawn
as mentioned in the treaty, it cannot be desirable, when all
the interests of the two countries with relation to each
other are under discussion, with a view to lasting friendship,
to leave unsettled so material a ground of difference as that
of an unascertained boundary. The mode of settling that
point is necessarily connected with the general result of the
present negotiation. If no more can be accomplished on any
other point, than the doing strict justice between the parties, according to existing treaties and the laws of nations,
the appointment of commissaries, as proposed by Mr. Jay,
does not appear ill adapted to obtain the same object as to
this point: provided that those commissaries are distinctly
enabled to take into their consideration the 8th article, and
to give to that stipulation such effect as they shall think it
ought in justice to have, in the formation of a new boundary line.
But, if the negotiation should lead to new stipulations of
mutual advantage, no subject appears more proper for the
application of that principle, than one in which there exist
two doubtful and contradictory claims, founded on an agreement which cannot by any possibility be executed; especially if it be true, as it is considered here, that this is a point
where any advantage, whatever it should be, which Great
Britain might acquire, would, under all circumstances, be
found at least equally beneficial to the United States.
Downing Street, §th September, 1794.
Expecting that when we met, the first of the above
projets would, as first in the order of things, be first
considered, my attention was more immediately confined to it; but the time consumed in preparing the
| 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 | 00000123 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 96 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. real geography of the country, it is certain that no further dispute could exist on that point. But, if we have from the best information on the subject sufficient reason to believe that no such line can be drawn as mentioned in the treaty, it cannot be desirable, when all the interests of the two countries with relation to each other are under discussion, with a view to lasting friendship, to leave unsettled so material a ground of difference as that of an unascertained boundary. The mode of settling that point is necessarily connected with the general result of the present negotiation. If no more can be accomplished on any other point, than the doing strict justice between the parties, according to existing treaties and the laws of nations, the appointment of commissaries, as proposed by Mr. Jay, does not appear ill adapted to obtain the same object as to this point: provided that those commissaries are distinctly enabled to take into their consideration the 8th article, and to give to that stipulation such effect as they shall think it ought in justice to have, in the formation of a new boundary line. But, if the negotiation should lead to new stipulations of mutual advantage, no subject appears more proper for the application of that principle, than one in which there exist two doubtful and contradictory claims, founded on an agreement which cannot by any possibility be executed; especially if it be true, as it is considered here, that this is a point where any advantage, whatever it should be, which Great Britain might acquire, would, under all circumstances, be found at least equally beneficial to the United States. Downing Street, §th September, 1794. Expecting that when we met, the first of the above projets would, as first in the order of things, be first considered, my attention was more immediately confined to it; but the time consumed in preparing the |
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