[11] The reader need not be informed, that these demands of indemnity for slaves were promptly rejected by the English government; and Jay's Treaty of 1794, surrendered them forever. [12] Hildreth, in his History of the United States, speaks of in that light. [13] Vide Annals of Congress, Vol. I, pages 1068-70-74. [14] Vide Correspondence on this subject between Seagrove and the War Department. American State Papers, Vol. V, pages 304-5, 320, 336, 387, and 392. [15] American State Papers, "Indian Affairs." Vol. II, p. 306. [16] Vide talk of principal Chief at Treaty of Colerain. [17] Vide Annals of Congress of that date. [18] Vide papers accompanying the Treaty of Colerain. American State Papers, Vol. I, "Indian Affairs." [19] Vide the papers accompanying this Treaty when submitted to the Senate. They are collected in the second volume of American State Papers, entitled "Indian Affairs." They will afford much interesting matter as to the doctrines of "State Rights" and Nullification, which it is unnecessary to embrace in this work. [20] Vide Annals of IVth Congress, 2d Session [21] The claims of these ancient Spanish inhabitants for indemnity against these robberies, have been pressed upon the consideration of Congress for the last twenty-five years, and were recently pending before the Court of Claims. When the bill for their relief was under discussion before the House of Representatives, In 1843, Hon. John Quincy Adams presented a list of some ninety slaves, for the loss of whom the owners claimed compensation from the United States. But the discussions which arose on private bills were not at that time reported; and neither this exhibit, nor the speech of Mr. Adams, are to be found in the Congressional Debates of that day. [22] Many slaves actually fled from their masters and found an asylum on board British vessels. Some sixty, belonging to a planter named Forbes, who resided in Georgia, left his plantation and took shelter on board the ship commanded by Lord Cochrane. They were transported to Jamaica, where they settled and lived as other free people. After the restoration of peace, Forbes sued his Lordship, before the British courts, for damages sustained by the loss of these slaves. The case elicited much learning in regard to the law of Slavery and, next to that of Sommerset, may be regarded as the most important on that subject ever litigated before an English court.