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Arguments and facts in support of his Majesty's right to

these islands, and the adjacent waters

Substance of the evidence adduced in the case
Engraved map of the islands in Passamaquoddy Bay
Illegal agreement between an American collector of the
customs and the British officets of revenue at Passama-
quoddy, establishing a neutral line where this illicit
trade might be carried on

Observations thereon

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Treaty of amity, &c. of 1794, between the same powers

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Memorial and statement from Halifax in Nova Scotia,

March 1894, to lord Hobart on the resources of the

provinces, and the injury sustained by the inhabitants

from the suspension of the navigation acts, &c.

Representation from the memorialists at Halifax to lord.
Camden, January 1805, in consequence of the letter to
his lordship from Mr. Jordan, agent for Barbadoes

Address of the council and assembly of New Brunswick
in 1807, on the unratified convention of May, 1803,
ceding the islands in Passamaquoddy Bay to the United
States, with extract from Mr. Merry's letter on that sub-
ject, and observations on the political and commercial
importance of these islands to Great Britain, and urging
the necessity of retaining the same.

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ERRATA.

In page xxxvi, fifth line, for his, read this.

xcii, dele and in the sixth line from the bottom.

xcvii, in the last line insert be before totally.

In Appendix, p. 185. the balance should be £2219.4r. 10d. and not
£104. 2s. 9d.

DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.

(A) Table of duties on articles imported from the United States compared with the duties on the same

articles from other places to be opposite to p. xxxviii. (B) Summary of American exports opposite p.

XCV.

Extract from Mitchell's map to be opposite p. 16. Appendix, No. I. (A).

The

map of Passamaquoddy Bay, p. 45, ditto.

AMERICAN ENCROACHMENTS

ON

BRITISH RIGHTS,

OR,

Observations on the Importance of the British Colonies in North America, and on the late Treaties with the United States, with Remarks on Mr. Baring's Examination, &c. &c. &c.

Ah what must those immortal spirits think

Of your poor shifts? Those, for their country's good,
Who fac'd the blackest dangers, knew no fear,
No mean submission, but commanded peace.
Ah how with indignation must they burn;
(If aught, but joy, can touch etherial breasts)
With shame! with grief! to see their feeble Sons
Shrink from that Empire o'er the conquer'd seas,
For which their wisdom plann'd, their councils glow'd,
And their veins bled thro' many a toiling age.
Thomson's Britannia.

THE

HE connexion which had so long subsisted between Great Britain and the countries now forming the United States of America, having been finally dissolved, by the acknowledgement of their Independence in 1783, the com mercial system arising out of that connexion, of course, ended with it; and the laws, by which the trade of these countries, considered as colonies, had hitherto been regulated, ceased to have effect: it was therefore necessary, not only to define and limit, by treaty, the boundaries of those parts of the United States which were contiguous to the remaining British Provinces in America, but also to adopt new principles, on which a system of commerce between the two nations might be founded.

Considerable difficulties occurred in the arrangement of the limits of the United States, which were afterwards

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