...seness of the article with that people as now drawn up gives but too much room to apprehend. Before Shelburne could have received the admonition, Adams, Franklin, and Jay met Oswald and Strachey at Oswald 's lodgings. Strachey opened the parley by an elaborate speech, in which he explained the changes in the article on the fisheries, and that the restitution of the property of the loyalists was the g...