...— Nor is this all ; in the same treaty the gulf of Mexico is denominated the ocean. Article VIII. "The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its...Great Britain and the citizens of the United States." — We all know that the Mississippi flows in the gulf of Mexico, but in the treaty it is said to flow...

...efforts to t According to the dc&nitive treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, "the navigation of the river Mississippi, from its...Great Britain and the citizens of the United States." Whatsoever right his catholic majesty had to interdict the free navigation of the Mississippi to any...

...belong. ART. 8. The navigation of the river Mississippi, from its source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain, and the citizens of the United States. ART. 9. In case it should so happen that any place or territory belonging to Great Britain or to the...

...the eighth article of the treaty of 1783 stipulates that " the navigation of the river Mississippi shall forever remain free and open to the subjects...Great Britain and the citizens of the United States." Under such a usage, in the numerous casesof prize and capture with which, up to the close of the last...

...this forcibly. Great Britain and the United States by the 8th Article of the treaty of 1783, declared, that, " The navigation of the river Mississippi, from...Great Britain, and the citizens of the United States." At that time Spain owned Louisiana and both banks of the river from its mouths up to the 31st degree...

...right to the navigation of the River Mississippi, from its source to the Ocean, should remain for ever free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. The same mutual right of navigation was recognized by Mr. Jay's treaty of 1794. When the American Commissioners...

...United States. The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean was for ever to remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States equally. Franklin, Jay, and all the American commissioners had sternly opposed any compensation to...

...Columbia, and make the provision of the existing Convention for the joint occupation of the territory by the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States more available than heretofore to the latter. These posts would continue places of rest for the weary...

...of 1783 and 1794, stipulated for the free navigation of a river like that one of the Mississippi. " The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source...Great Britain and the citizens of the United States." Art. 8 of Treaty of 3 Sept. 1783, 8 Stat. at Large, 83. " The river Mississippi shall, however, according...

...to both parties," according to the treaty of peace of 1783, which provided, by its eighth article, that " the navigation of the river Mississippi, from...Great Britain, and the citizens of the United States." If the third article of the treaty of 1794 were now in force, the objection drawn from it to the proposed...