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BOSTO N, March 3.
lopy of a letter from John Manley, efq; commander
ot the continental frigate Hague, to meffrs. Andrew
Johonnot and Francis Mulligan of this town, dat
ed 3ay Mabaut, (Island of Guadaloupe) January
26, 1783.
I HAVE already acquainted you, that I have been
drove on shore, after a 36 hours chafe, by a 50 gun
(hip, and lay at the mercy of her incessant fire, for
two days; who with the affiflance of a 74, (and two
mother fail of the line to back her) were not very (par
ing of a heavy and brifl< cannonade : however,
without a man killed, and only one slightly wounded,
and my darings repaired, in hull, malls, &c. &c. it
is with pleasure ( look to the profpef tof getting out
to-morrow for Martinico, Fort Royal, for heaving
4own.
Inclofed is a copy a letter from his excellency the
governor, to me, which J request you to publish, as
it may fatisfy those who wish to entertain doubts
that my conduct has met the approbation of our al
lies, as far as they had an opportunity of judging;
and besides, the count appars to poffrfs that friend
ship for America, which it ever gives me pleasure to
find in the bosoms of distinguished foreigners.
Count d'Eßaing was to fail the 25th December with
*SO (ail of the line, and 20,000 troops for this part of
the world, so that the Weft Indies will soon be the
feat of active naval operations, as the English at pre
sent have a force of upwards of 40 fail, and possibly
"will embody more.
I am, gentlemen,
Your very humble servant,
JO NN MANLEV.
NEWP 0 R T, March r.
Last week was captured, and brought into this
port, by the privateer General Washington, captain
Wanton, a brig from Tortola, bound to Glasgow,
laden with sugar, tobacco, cotton, &c.
N E W- L O ND O N, Feb. 28.
Captain John Qninlin, in the brig Holker, of Phi
ladelphia, has taken the following vessels in the Weft-
Indies: General Elliot, 14 guns, from Antigua, eve
ry man killed and wounded but three; Lion, from
Anquilla, captain Fat, roguns; ship Mar,rß gun ,
12's and 9's, 75 men ; brig from Newfoundland, and
a cutter from London, all taken in 2i days.
The Holker had taken 16 prizes in the course of fix
weeks, including the above.
Captain Phipps failed with the Holker, having the
Lion as a tender, now called the count DiJlon.
P R O V I D E N C E, March i.
On Monday arrived here, a retaken brig, called
the Prudence, prize to the Success, captain Hop
kins, and Snake-Fish, captain Cahoon.—She was
bound from Cadiz for Maryland, and had been cap
tured by the Fair American, a privateer from New-
York She is laden with salt, wine, fruit, some dry
goods, &c.
N E W-H AV E N, March 6.
About three weeks since, a (hip from France,
bound to Virginia, was captured by a British frigate,
off the Chesapeake, and ordered to New York, under
the command of a midshipman with 15 hands, the mate,
Mr Lewis, and five of the (hip's company being per
knitted to remain on board—she miffed her port and
fell to the eastward, when they determined to come
through the Sound, and arrived off Guilford last
Wednesday night (the wind being ahead) and came
to anchor; the next morning the prisoners, who
had previously engaged three of their captors to join
them, retook the veffil after an encounter which last
ed about a quarter of an hour, in which the prize
mafler and one of his hands were wounded. The
prize ran on a rock, baton taking out part of her
loading was got off. Her cargo, which is very va
luable, is fafe landed, and received but little damage.
CHATHA M, March 12.
A few days ago, died at Raritan, in the county of
Somerset, miss Susannah Hendrickson, aged one hua
dred years and fix months.
Philadelphia, March 18.
Fxtraa o f a letter from I'Orient, dated Jan. 17.
" Since wr ting yesterday I have had a conference
with the captains of the American vessels destined for
your port, when it was concluded to detain the ships
a further time, in hopes to be fully informed whether
the negociations will terminate in peace or war.''
Extrad of a letter from I'Orient, dated Dec. 9.
" The preliminary articles of peace between the
united flatet of America and England, being agreed
to, and signed by the commissioners at Paris, indicates
flrongly the intention of the belligerent powers for
making a general peace; and they all seem to be so
seriously t work for that end, that it is thought not
far diflant."
Extrad of a letter from I'Orient, dated December 14,
1782.
" The affair of the war is now, I think, pretty well
got through, and we wait with impatience for the
news from England, where the preliminaries were to be
ratified the 3d inflant: I mean the preliminaries for a
peace between America and England, to take place
when France and England have agreed."
Extra& of a letter from I'Orient, December 20.
'' The expeHations of every person here are fixed
on the objects of peace or war; but at present we
know nothing certain."
Extrad of a letter, dated I'Orient, January 7th,
1783.
" A letter from Brussels, of the 9th of January fays,
that the treaty of peace between France and England,
^s well as that between England and America is set
American News.
tannic majefiy shall be ready to conclude such trea
ty accordingly.
WHEREAS reciprocal advantages and mutual
convenience are found by experience to form
the only permanent foundation of peace and
friendfllip between states, it is agreed to form the arti
cles of the proposed treaty on such principles of liberal
equity and reciprocity, as that p rtiai advantages,
thof. feeds of difeord, being excluded, s uch a benefi
cial and fatisfaftory intercourse between the two coun
tries may be established, as to promise and secure to
both, perpetual peace and harmony.
Article 1. His Eritannic majefiy acknowledges the
said united dates, viz. New Hampfhir% Massachusetts.
Bay, Rhode.lfland and Providence Plantations, Con
ne&icut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, De
laware, Maryland, Virginia, North- Carolina, South-
Carolina and Georgia, to be free, foreign, and in
dependent dates ; that he treats with them as such;
and for himfelf, his heirs and successors, relinquishes
a I claims to the government, proprietary and terri
torial rights of the fame, and every part thereof; and
that all disputes, which might arise in future on the
fubjeft of the boundaries of the said united dates, may
be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that
the following are and shall be their boundaries, viz.
Art. 2. From the north w dangle of Nova-Scotia,
viz. that angle which is formed by a line drawn due
north, from the source of St. Croix river to the high
lands, along the said highland, which divide those ri
vers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrance,
from those which fall into the Atlantic ocean, to the
north weflernmod head of Connecticut river, thence
down alon? the middle of that river to the 45th degree
of north latitude ; from thence by a line due weft on
said latitude, until it drives the river Iroquois or Ca
taraqu y, thence along the middle of said river into
lake Ontario, through the middle of said lake until it
drikes the communication by water between that lake
and ake Erie, thence along the middle of said commu
nication into lake Erie, through the middle of said
lake until it arrives at the water communication be
tween that lake and lake Huron ; thence along the
middle of said water communication into the lake Hu
ron, thence through the middle of said lake to the
water communication between that lake and lake Su
perior ; thence through lake Superior northward of the
ides Royal and Philipeaux to the Long Lake ; thence
through the middle of (aid Long Lake and the water
communication between it and the Lake of the Woods,
to the (rid Lake of the Woods th-nce through the
said lake to the north wefbrn point thereof, and from
thence, on a due weft course, to the river Mississippi;
thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the
said river Mississippi, until it (hall interna the north
ernmost part of the 31st degree of north latitude ; south
by a line to be drawn doe ead, from the determination
of the line lad mentioned, on the latitude or 31 degrees
north of the equator, to the middle of the river Apa
lachicola or Latahoochi : thence along the middle
thereof to its junction with the Flint river : thence
draught to the head of St. Mary's river, and thence
down al ng the middle of St Mary's river to the At
lantic ocean; ead by a line to be drawn along the mid
dle of the river St. Croix, from its month in the bay
of Fundy to its source, and from its source dirediy
north to the aforesaid highlands, which divide the ri
vers that fall into the Atlantic oc^an, from those which
fall into the river St. Lawrance, comprehending all
islands withi n twenty leagues of any part of the (hores
of the united states, and ly ng between lines to be
drawn due ea f lfrom the points where the aforefaid
boundaries between Nova. Scotia on the one part, and
East Florida on the other, fliall reflexively touch the
bay of Fundy and the Atlantic ocean, excepting such
islands as vow are, or heretofore have bern, within the
limits of th^ said province of Nova Scoria
Art. 3 ft is agreed that the people of the united
Rates shall continue to enjoy, unmoleße I, the rightto
take fifh of every kind on the Grand bank, and on all
tie other banks of Newfoundland, also in the gulph
of St. Lawrance, and at all other places in the sea,
where the inhabitants of both countries used at any
time heretofore to fifh ; and also that the inhabitants
of the united Rates shall have liberty to take fifh of
every kind on fu:h part of the coast of Newfoundland,
as British fifhermen shall use, (but not to dry or cure
the fame on that island) and also on the coa sis, bays
and creeks, of all other of iris Britannia majesty's do
minions in America; and that the American fifhermen
shall have liberty to dry and cure fifh in any of the
unsettled bys harbours and creeks of Nova-Scotia,
Magdalene islands and Labrador, so long as the fame
shall remain unsettled ; but so soon as the fame, or ei
ther of them, shall be fettled, it shall not be lawful for
tied; and that a person was gone to Holland to en
deavour to accomplish some matters. The letter con
cludes by faying, that he believes peace near at hand."
On Monday the 10th instant, died at Anna
polis, the honourable Edward Giles, esquire,
a delegate for the state of Maryland in the con
gress of the united states,
For the fatisfaedion of our customers we in fert
the following Copy of a Treaty between
Great Britain and America; the substance of
which was given in our paper of Thursday
last.
Articles agreed upon by and between Richard Os
wald, esquire, the commissioner of his Britannic ma
jesty, for treating of peace with the commissioners
of the united states of Am ri<a, in behalf of his laid
majefiy on the one p rt, and Jdm Adams, Benja
min Franklin, Jo n J y, and Henry Laurens, four
of the commissioners of the (aid dates, for treating
of peace with the commissioner of his said majefiy,
on their behalf, on the other part—to be inferred
in, and confiture the treaty of peace proposed to be
concluded between the crown of Great-Britain and
the (aid united dates, but which treaty is not to be
concluded until terms of a pe ce shall be agreed up
on between Great- Britain and France; and his Bri-
Art. 7. There shall be a firm an perpetual peace
between his Britannic majesty and the said Rates, and
between the febjeas of the one and the citizens of the
other ; wherefore all hoflilities, both by sea and land,
shall then immediately cease ; all prisoners on both
sides shall be set at liberty, and his Britannic ma jefly
shall, with all convenient speed, and without causing
any deßrudion, or carrying away any negroes, or
other property of the American inhabitants, with
draw all his armies, garrifops and fleets, from the said
united Rates, and from every port, place and har
bour, within the fame, leaving in a'l fortifications the
American artillery that may be therein; and shall al
so order and cause all archives, records, deeds, and
papers, belonging to any of the said Rates, or their
citizens, which, in the course of the war, may have
fallen into the hands of his officers, to be forthwith
restored and delivered to the proper states, and per
sons to whom they belong.
Art. 8. The navigation of the river Mississippi,
from its source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free
and open tothe fubjeas of Great-Britain, and the
citizens of the united states.
Art. 9. In case it should so happen, that any
place or territory, belonging to Great Britain, or to
the united states, should be conquered by tie arms of
either from the other, before the arrival of these ar
ticles in America, it is agreed that the fame shall be
restored without d fficulty, and without requiri; g any
Compensation.
Done at Paris, November 30th, 1782.
RICHARD OSWALD, (LS.)
JOHN ADAMS, (LS.)
BENJ. FRANKLIN, (L.S)
JOHN JAY, (L.S)
HENRY LAURENS, (L.S.)
Witness,
Caleb Whiteford, Secretary to
Signed,/ the British commission.
\ W. T. Faanklin, Secretary to the
American commission.
To be Sold by Public Vendee,
At the Coffee House, on SATURDAY the tad inst.
March, at One c'Ciock,
ONE-EIGHTH PART of the faft failing Scbco
ner Nimrcd, with all her Tackle and Furni
tu e, as she can? from sea, now laying at Wal.
nut.ft^ t w h ? rff. JOHN BAYARD, A^oneer.
Wanted, a Lad that can write
tolerably well, as an Apprentice to a Merchant. En
quire of t'e P inter. March 18,
Philadelphia, Match
STRAYED or stolen, last ni^ht, out of the itxblet
of ? homas Sraios, in S venth street, near Mark
et-street, the fin of the Horse and Groom, a larfce
Ba r STALLION, 4 years old, about 15 hands high,
has a (mail star in his forehead, a long switch tail,
and is a natural trotter. Whoever takes up the said
Sal ion, ard brings him to the above stables, or to
George Kitt, in Market-ftr^t, shall receive
FOUR Fr^uh GUINEAS for the Horse and Thief,
'" rWO GUINEAS for the Horse only, and rea
fo^^e charts n^, so, GJ_ORGEKJTTS.
s 1 x-r£LN c eke WARD ~
RAN-AWAY yesterday morning, a bound girl,
.named ROSE TAYiOR, near 16 years old,
has light ct-loured hair, a d<wn look, and much given
to lying; had on a black petticoat and brown linfey
short gown, with a red and white croft.barred Bar
celona hrudkerchi ft whoever delivers her to her
matter, fhal have the above reward, paid bv Bavid
C. Claypooie. March 8, ' '
the said fifhermen to dry or cure fifh at such settlements,
without a previous agreement for that purpose, with
the inhabitants, proprietors or possessors of the ground.
Art. 4. It is agreed that creditors on either fide,
shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery
of the full value in flerling money, of all bona fide
debts heretofore contradied.
Art. 5. It is agreed that the congress shall earneflly
recommend it to the legislatures of the refpe&ive Rates,
to provide for the refiitution of all estates, rights and
propertie , which have been Confifeated, belonging to
real British fubjeOs ; and also of the estates, rights,
and properties of persons resident in dißrifts, in the
possession of his majefly's arms, and who have not
borne arms against the said united dates; and that
persons of any other description shall have free liber
ty to g° to any part or parts of any of the thirteen
united dates, and therein to remain twelve months,
unmolested in their endeavours to obtain the restituti
on of such of their estates, rights and properties, as
may have been confifeated, and that congress shall al
so earnedly recommend to the several Bates a recon
sideration and revision of al! a&s or laws regarding the
premises, so as to render the said laws or afis perfed
ly confident, not only with justice and equity, but
with that spirit of conciliation, which, on the return
of the bindings of peace, should universally prevail;
and that congress should also earnedly recommend to
the several Rates, that the eflatts, rights and pro
perties of such last me- tioned persons, should be re
flored to them, they refunding to any persons. who
may be now in possession, the bona fide price, (where
any has been given) which such persons may have paid
on purchasing any of the said lands, rights or pro
perties, since the confifeation. And it is agreed, that
all persons who have any interei in confifeated lands,
either by debts, marriage fetthments, or otherwise
shall meet with no lawful impediment ip the prosecu
tion of their just rights.
At. 6. That there shall be no future confifeations
made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any
person or persons, for, or by reason of the part which
he or they may have taken in the present war, and
that no person shall, on that account, fuffer any future
loss or damage, either in his person, liberty or pro
perty, and that those who may be now in confinement
on such charges, at the time of the ratification of the
treaty in America, shall be immediately set at liberty,
and the prosecutions so commenced, be difeontinued.