Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: debts due to Americans in England, if, by legal impediments, prevented from recovery there. 14. Actual State—America sends Mr. Jay to recover redress for spoliations on our commerce actually sustained. 14. State By Treaty.—By treaty a court of commissioners opened, who are to sit in London, without power of adjournment, as iu the case of the commission for debts. Americans must, therefore, transport themselves and claims to London, and employ counsel there, to recover what the commissioners shall think fit to allow them. Admirable compensation, indeed ! 15. Actual State—American ships much plagued by British privateers. 15. State By Treaty.—By treaty the privateersmen are to give £1500 to £3000 sterling security for their good behavior. 16. Actual State —American citizens may now expatriate and serve in foreign countries. 16. State By Treaty.—By treaty they are declared pirates if serving against Great Britain ; but no provision made to guard American seamen from being forced to serve in British ships. 17. Actual State.—America possesses claims to a large amount on account of negroes carried off, and the western posts detained in violation of the treaty of 1783. 17. State By Treaty.—These claims all waived by the treaty, without reference to the merits of these pretensions. The casting up of the above is submitted to the Chamber of Commerce of New York. Errors, outstandings, and omissions excepted. Philadelphia, July 27, 1795. No. 3. MEMORIAL TO LEGISLATURE AGAINST CALLING A CONVENTION. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the memorial of the subscribers, citizens of the said Commonwealth, most respectfully represents : That your memorialists have seen with alarm and regret propos...