to John Quincy Adams, James Bayard, Henry Clay, Albert Gallatin, and Jonathan Russell, 25 June 1814

to John Quincy Adams, James Bayard, Henry Clay, Albert Gallatin, and Jonathan Russell, 25 June 1814

has not received any dispatches from them; uncertainty of British-American relations caused by end of war in Europe; authorizes them to refer the issue of impressment to a separate negotiation if that question is only impediment to a treaty; United States will not surrender its right to the fisheries, abandon its trade with the East Indies or cede Louisiana to Spain; if these issues arise in the negotiations -- as has been rumored -- they are to reject them

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