<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:identifier>doi:10.7916/q08g-qb06</dc:identifier><dc:title>Document, 1785 October 25</dc:title><dc:format>correspondence</dc:format><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:subject>United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783</dc:subject><dc:subject>Jay, John, 1745-1829</dc:subject><dc:description>Parliamentary debate on the navigation acts. United States may learn from
            the debate "the cunning of both Administration and opposition"-no man had the courage to
            declare himself for free and unlimited trade with the United States. If the United
            States agrees to the plan "they will deserve to be the contempt of the world and of
            posterity." If Parliament introduced the plan as America desires, they would not be able
            to pass it because national prejudice is strongly in favor of the existing act. With the
            present force in Parliament Adams sees no conclusion to American demands of posts, stock
            and slave recovery, etc., excepting the process for recovery of
            debts.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>