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By the February Packet from Falmouth, the (hip
Vigilant from London, and otheriate arriva s
at New York from Europe, we have British
Prints to the beginning of February, from
which the following are taken —
Authentic Copies
OF THE
PRELIMINARY ARTICLES
Of PEAC E,
BETWEEN
His Britannic Majesty, the Most Christian
King, His Molt Catholic Majesty, and
The United States of America.
Signed at Versailles, the 20th of January,
Translation of the Preliminary Articles of
Peace, between His Britannic Majesty
and the Mbit Christian King; signed at
Versailles the 20th of January, 1783.
In the Name of the Most Holy TRI NTTY.
TH E King of Great-Britain and the Most
Christian King, equally animated with a
desire of putting an end to the calamities of a
deftruaiys war, and of re-eftablifhiug union and good
understanding between them, as necessary for the good
es mankind in general as for that of their refpeßive
kingdoms, Rates and fubjeds, have named tor this
purpose, viz. on the part of his Britannic Majesty
Mr. Alleyne Fitz-Herbert, Minister Plenipot miary
of his said Majesty the King of Great Britain; and
on the part of His Most Christian Majesty, Charles
Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, Counfeilor in all his
councils, Commander of his Orders, Councilor of
State, Mnifter and Secretary of State, and of the
Commands and Finances of his said Majesty, for the
department of Foreign Affairs; who, after having
duly communicated to each other their full powers in
good form, have agreed on the following Preliminary
Articles:
Art. i. , S soon as thePreliminaries shall be sign
ed and ratified, sincere friendfhip shall
be re-eftabbfhed between his Britannic Majesty and
his Most Christian Majesty, their kingdoms, Rates
and fubjeHs, by sea and by land, in all par's of the
world. Orders shall be sent to the armies and squad
rons, as well as to the fubjeds of the two powers, to
flop all hostilities, and to live in the most perfect uni
on, forgetting what is passed, of which their Soverei ns
give them the ord r and example. And, for the exe
cution of this article, sea passes shall be given on each
fide for the fllips which fhal be dispatched to carry the
news of it to the possessions of the said powers.
Art. 2. His Majesty the King of Great-Britaln shall
preserve in full right the Island of Newfoundland, a^d
the adjacent islands, in the fame manner as the whole
was ceded to him by the thirteenth Article of the Trea
ty of Utrecht, five the exceptions which shall be Ri
pulated by the fifth Article of the present Treaty.
Art. 3. His Most Christian Majesty in order to
prevent quarrels which have hitherto arisen between the
two nations of England and France, renounces the
right of fifning, which belongs to him by virtue of
the said Article of the Treaty of Utrecht, from Cape
Bonavifta to Cape St. John, situated on theeaflern
coast of Newfoundland, in about fifty degrees of North
Latitude; whereby the French fifhery shall commence
at the said Cape St. John, shall go round by the
North, and, going down the weßern coast of the
Island of Newfoundland, shall have for boundary the
place called Cape Raye, situated in 47 degrees 50
minutes latitude.
Art. 4. The French fifhermen shad enjoy the fi(h
ery assigned them by the foregoing article, as they have
aright to enjoy it by virtue of the Treaty of Utrecht
Art. 5. His Britannic Majefiy will cede in full right
to his Most Christian Majesty the islands of St. Pierre
and Miquelon.
Art. 6. With regard to the right of filling in the gulph
of St. Lawrence, the French shall continue to enjoy it
conformably to the sth article of the Treaty of Paris,
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Art. 13. The King of Great-Britain shall restore to
His Most C miflian Majesty all the establishments
which belonged to him at the commencement of the
present war on the coast of Orixa, and in Bengal, with
liberty to surround Chand rnagor with a ditch for
draining the waters; and his Britannic Majesty engages
to take such measures as may be in his power for fe
curing to the fubjeas cf France, in that part of India,
as aho on the coast of Orixa, Coromandel, and Mala
bar, a fa fe, free, and independent trade, such as was
carried on by the late French East India Company,
whether it be carried on by them as individuals or as
a company.
Art. 14. Pondicherry, as well as Karical, shall
likewise be restored, and guaranteed to France; and
his Britannic Majesty shall procure, to serve as a de
pendency round Pondicherry, 4he two diftrißs of Vala
nour and Bahour; and as a dependency round Kari
cal, the four contiguous Magans.
Art. 15. France shall again enter into possession of
Mahe, and of the Comptoir at Surat ; and the French
shall carry on commerce in this part of India conform
ably to the principles laid down in the thirteenth arti
cle of this treaty.
Art. 16. In case France has Allies in India, they
shall be invited, as well as those of Great-Britain, to
accede to the present pacification; and for that pur
pose a term of four months, to be computed from the
day on whic f the proposal sh 11 be made to them, shall
be allowed them to make their decifioi.l ; and in case of
refuel on their part, their Britannic and most Chri^i
an Majesties agree not to give them any assistance, di
redly or indirectly, against the British or French posses
sions, or against the ancient possessions of heir respec
tive Allies; and their Did Maj&ftj s shall offer them
their good offices towards a mutual accommodation.
Art. 17. The King of Great-Britain, desirous of
giving his Most Christian Majesty a fiocere proof of
reconciliation and friendship, and of contributing to
the solidity of the peace which is on the p^int of being
re-eflablifhed, will consent to the abrogation and sup
pression of all the articles relative to Dunkirk, from
the treaty of peace concluded at Utrecht in 1713, in
clusively to this ime.
Art. 1% By the definitive treaty, all those wl/ch
have exited till now between the two High Contrad
ig Parties, and which shall not have been derogated
from rither by the said Treaty or by the present Pre
liminary Treaty, shall be renewed and confirmed;
and the two Courts shall name Commissioners to en
quire into the Rate of commerce between the two nati
ons, in order to agree upon new arrangements of
trade, on the footing of reciprocity and mutual conve
nience—The said two Courts shall together amicably
fix a competent term for the duration of that bufiuefs.
Art. 19. All the countries and territories which may
have been, or which may be, conquered io any part of
the world whatsoever, by the arms of his Britannic
Art. 7. The King of Great Britan shall restore to
France the island of St. Lucia, and shall cede and gua
rantee to her that of Tobago.
Art. 8. The Most Christian King shall restore to
Great-Britain the islands of Grenada and the Grena
dines, St. Vincent, Dominica, St. Chriftopherri, Ne.
Vis, and Montserrat ; and the fortreffes of those in
lands conquered by the arms of Great Britain and by
tuofc of France, shall be restored in the fame conditi
on in which they were when the conquest of them was
made, provided that the term of eighteen mouths, to
be computed from the time of the ratification of the
definitive treaty, shall be granted to the refpeaive sub
jects of the Crowns of Great Britain and France, who
may have fettled in the said islands, and in other pla
ces which shall be restored by the definitive treaty, to
thejr estates, recover their debts, and to transport
their effects and retire without being retrained, on ac
count of their religion, or any other whatever, except
in cases of debt or of criminal prosecutions
Art. 9. The King of Grea r Britain shall cede and
guarantee in full right to bis Mott Christian Majesty
the river of Senegal and its dependencies, with the forts
of St. Louis, Podor, Galam, Arguin and Portendu.
His Britannic Majesty shall restore, likewise, the island
°'G°' ee > which shall be given up in the condition in
which it was when the British arms took possession of it.
Art. 10. The Most Cnrißian King shall on his fide,
guarantee to his Majesty, the King of Great retain,
the possession of Fort James, and of the river Gambia.
Art. 11. In order to prevent all difeuffions in that
part of the world, the two Courts shall agree, either by
the definitive treaty, or by a separate aft, upon the
boundaries to be fixed to their refpe&ive p ffeffons.
1 lie gum trade shall be carried on in future as the Engiifh
and French nations carried it on before the year 1755.
Art. 12. In regard to the rest of the coaßs of Afri
ca, the fubjeß of both powers shall continue to fre
quent them, according to the custom which has pre
vafed hitherto.
O R, THE
THE
Majesty, or by those of his Most Christian Majesty,
are not included in the present articles, shall
be restored without difficulty, and without requiring
compensation.
2 °^ As " is necessary to assign a fixed epoch
, reßnutions and the evacuations to be made by
J" the ,^ h contrasting parties, it is agreed, that
'j^at-Britain shall cause to be evacuated
the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, three months
t.er the ratification of the definitive treaty, or sooner
lytcan be done ; St. Lucia in the Weft-Indies, and
Goree in Africa, three months after the ratification of
he definitive treaty, or sooner if it can be done. The
ing of Great Britain shall, in like manner, at the end
ot three months after the ratification of the definitive
- ° r f °° ner if it can be done, enter again into
possession of the Islands of Grenada, the Grenadines,
, cen ^> Dominica, St. Christopher's, Nevis, and
Montserrat.
France shall be put into possession of the towns and
comptpirs, which are restored to her io the Raft-Indies,
and of the territories which are procured for her, to
serve as dependencies round Pondicherry, and round
Karical, fix Months after the ratification of the defini
tive Treaty, or sooner if it can be done.
France shall at the end of the fame term of fix months,
restore the towns and territories which her arms may
have taken from the English or their allies in the Bast-
Indies.
In consequence whereof, the necessary orders shall
be sent by each of the high contrasting parties, with
reciprocal passports for the ships which shall carry
them, immediately after the ratification of the defini
tive Treaty.
Art. 21. The prisoners made refpeHively by the
arms of his Britannic Mfeßy, and his Mod Christian
Majetiy, by land and by fea,fhall be restored recipro
cally, and bona fide immediately after the ratification
of the definitive Treaty, without ransom, and on pay
ing the debts they may have contracted during their
captivity; and each Crown shall r fpeflively reimbmfe
the f-ms w! ich shall have been advanced for the fub
fi euce and maintenance of their prisoners, by the So
vereign of tle country where they shall have been dt
tained, according to the receipts and attefled accounts,
and other authentic titles which shall be produced on
each fide.
Art. 22. In order to prevent all causes of com
plaint and dispute w ich may arise on account of
prizes which may be made at Sea after the figging of
these preliminary articles,it is reciprocally agreed,'that
the vessels and effects which may be taken in the
Channel and the North- Seas, after the space of twelve
days to be computed from the ratification of the pre
sent preliminary articles, shall be restored on each
fide. That- the term shall be one month from the
Channel and North Sen, as far as the Cana y Islands,
inclusively, whether in the Ocean or in the M diter
ranean. Two months from the said Canary Islands,
as far as the Equinoctial line or Equator; and la fily,
five months in all other parts of the World, without
any exception or any other more particular descrip
tion of time and place.
Art. 23. The ratification of the present preliminary
articles, shall be expedited in good and due form, and
exchanged in the space of one month, or sooner if it
can be clone, to be computed from the day of the sig
nature of the present articles.
In witness whereof, we, the underwritten Ministers
plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, and o f his
Mod Chrißian Majesty, by virtue of our reCpeßive
full powers, have signed the present preliminary arti
cles, and have caused the seal of our arms to be put
thereto.
Done at Versailles, the 20th d?y of Taruary, 1783.
(L. S.) ALLEYNE FITZ-HERBERT.
(L. S) GRAVIER DE VERGENNES.
Transition of the Preliminary Articles of
Peace, between His Britannic Majesty
arid the Mod Catholic King; signed at
Versailles the 20th of January, 1783.
In the N^m? of the Most Holy TRINITY.
F^HE King of Great Britain and the K ng cf Spain,
^ equal, animated with 3d fi eof pitting an end
to the edamities of a dtftru&ive wsr, and of re ^fta
bliOfng unfin %nd good understanding between them,
as necessary for the good of mankind in general, as
for that of tori' refpcftive kingdom#, Rates, and fub~
j lib, ha^e named for this purpose, viz, on the part of
his Mjefty the King of Great Britain, Mr. Alkyne
Friz Herbert, minuter plenipotentiary <f his said m?-
j>fty, and on the part of his Maj ft, the King cfSpain,
Dine Peter Paul Abarca de Boles Xtoines d'Urnea,
&;. Count of Aranda and C4t*l Floride, Marquis of
A P R I L io, 1783,
[NTME. 1026.