1102. CANADA, Indemnification and. [further continued] .
We have a great and
a just claim of indemnifications against the
British for the thousand ships they have taken
piratically, and six thousand seamen impressed.
Whether we can, on this score, successfully
insist on curtailing their American
possessions, by the meridian of Lake Huron,
so as to cut them off from the Indians bordering
on us, would be matter for conversation
and experiment at the treaty of pacification.—
To William Short. Washington ed. vi, 129.
(M.
June. 1813)
