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Amity, Commerce, and Navigation,

BETWEEN

HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY

AND THE

UNITED STATES. OF AMERICA;

BY THEIR PRESIDENT,

WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE,

Νου. 19, 1794-

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. DEBRETT, OPPOSITE BURLINGTON.
HOUSE, PICCADILLY.

1795.

[Price One Shilling.]

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WITH THE

United States of America.

HIS IS Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, being defirous by a Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, to terminate their differences in such a manner, as without reference to the merits of their respective complaints and pretensions, may be the best calculated to produce mutual fatisfaction and good understanding: and also to regulate the commerce and navigation between their respective countries, territories, and people, in such a manner as to render the same reciprocal, beneficial, and fatisfactory; they have, respectively, named their Plenipotentiaries, and given them full powers to treat of, and conclude the said Treaty; that is to say, His Britannic Majesty has named for his Plenipotentiary, the Right Hon. William Windham, Baron Grenville of Wotton, one of his Majesty's Privy Council, and His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for foreign affairs: and the President of the faid United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, hath appointed for their Plenipotentiary, the Hon. John Jay, Chief Justice of the faid United States, and their Envoy Extraordinary to His Majesty, who hath agreed on, and concluded the following articles:

Art. I. There shall be a firm, inviolable, and univerfal peace, and a true and fincere friendship between His

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WITH THE

United States of America.

HIS Britannic Majesty and the United States of Ame

rica, being defirous by a Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, to terminate their differences in such a manner, as without reference to the merits of their respective complaints and pretensions, may be the best calculated to produce mutual fatisfaction and good understanding: and also to regulate the commerce and navigation between their respective countries, territories, and people, in such a manner as to render the same reciprocal, beneficial, and fatisfactory; they have, respectively, named their Plenipotentiaries, and given them full powers to treat of, and conclude the said Treaty; that is to say, His Britannic Majesty has named for his Plenipotentiary, the Right Hon. William Windham, Baron Grenville of Wotton, one of his Majesty's Privy Council, and His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for foreign affairs: and the President of the faid United States, by and with the advice and confent of the Senate thereof, hath appointed for their Plenipotentiary, the Hon. John Jay, Chief Justice of the faid United States, and their Envoy Extraordinary to His Majesty, who hath agreed on, and concluded the following articles:

Art. I. There shall be a firm, inviolable, and univerfal peace, and a true and sincere friendship between His

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