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Mr. Cheves offered to submit the question of interest to one of the arbitrators, but Mr. Jackson declined to do so, on the ground that interest was clearly excluded by the convention. Yet another unyielding difference arose in Dauphin island, relation to some of the Louisiana claims for slaves carried away from Dauphin Island, in Mobile Bay. This island was occupied by British forces during the war, and was surrendered by them at its close; but Mr. Jackson maintained that it was not, at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent, lawfully a part of the United States; that it was not an appendage of Louisiana, but belonged to West Florida, which was not ceded to the United States till 1819. This objection embraced perhaps the greater part of the slaves alleged to have been carried away from Louisiana. Mr. Cheves refused to discuss the right of the United States to the island, but offered to refer the claims in respect of which the question arose to one of the arbitrators. This Mr. Jackson declined to do.