ART: 20.
Considering the great number of British merchants residing
in the United States, with the great means of influence
possessed by them, and the very few American Merchants
who reside in Great Britain, the inconvenience which may
be incident to such a protracted right to remain during a
state of war, is evidently much greater on our side than on the
other. In this view the stipulation is very unequal. The
liberal spirit of it is, at the same time, highly commendable.
It were only to be wished that the readiness of one side to
make sacrifices of this sort, to a spirit which ought to pervade
every part of a Treaty between the parties, had been less met
by an apparent disposition on the other side, rather to extort
from than to emulate it.
Art: 21. Not agreeable, but not to be an insuperable obstacle.
Art: 22 is altogether proper.
