The Pennsylvania packet, or, The general advertiser — Lancaster, Pa.;Philadelphia, Pa., 1783-04-10 00:00:00, page 2

Torres, of ViVannn sn'Ußttpit, Vi&in'tbrßueda and
Voch ; Ba on of the Baroni s of Gavin, Sietano. Cl?-
roofa, Euipol, Trazn^z La Mata de CafU ! , Viego,
Antillon, La Almolda, C rtes, Jorva, St. Geris, Ro
bovdlet; Oreau, and St. Colome de Faroe's. Lord of
the Tenance, and Honor of Alcalaten, the Valley of
Rodtliar, the Cadles and Towns cf Maella, Mefones,
Tiurana, di Villapltm?, Taradell, and Viladran, &.
Rico Hombre in Aragon, by Birth, Grandee of Spain
of the fi ft Clair, Knight of the Order of the Golden
Fleece, and of that of the Holy Ghost, Gentleman of
the King's Bed-chamber in Employment, Captain ge
neral of Ids Armies, and hit ambaffidor to his Most
Christian Mjrity,'who, after having duly communi
cated to each other their full powers in good form, have
agreed on the following Preliminary Articles:
Art. I. A S food as the Preliminaries shall be
fl figped and ratified, sincere friendfhip
shall be eflablifhed between his Britannic Majesty and
his Catholic Majesty, their kingdoms, Hates and fub
jea%, by sea and by land, in all parts of the world
Orders shall be ferftto the armies and squadrons, as
well as to the fubjeds of the two powers, to flop all
hoflilities, and to live in the most perfect union, for
getting what has passed, of which their Sovereigns give
them the order and example, and for the execution
of this article, sea passes shall be given on each fide for
the fllips which shall be dispatched to carry the news
of it to the pofieffions of the said Powers.
Art. 2. His Catnohc Majesty fnall keep the island of
Minorca
Art. 3. His Britannic Majesty shall cede to bis Ca
tholic Majefly East Florida, and his Catholic Maj.fly
shall keep Weft Florida, provided that the term of
eighteen months, to be computed from the time of the
ratification of the Definitive Treaty, shall be granted
to thefubjeHs of his Britannic Majesty who are fettled
as well in the island of Minorca as in the two Floridas,
to fell their estates, recover their debts, and to tranf
por< their eff&, as well as their perfon*, without be
nag retrained on account of their religion, or under
any other pretence whatsoever, except that of debts
^ndcriminal prosecutions; and his Britannic Majefly
shall have power to cause all the effeHs that may be
long to him in Eafi Florida, whether artillery or others,
to be carried away.
Art. 4. His Catholic Majefly shall not for the fu-
ture, fuffer the fubjefls of his Britannic Majefly, or
tueir workmen, to be disturbed or molested, under a
y pretence whatsoever, in their occupation of cutting,
lodging and carrying away logwood, in a diftrid of
which the boundaries shall be fixed, and for this pur
pose they may build without hindrance, and occupy
without interruption, the houses and magazines neces
sary for them, for their families and for their effeßs,
in a place to be agreed upon, either in the definitive
treaty, or within fix months after the exchange of the
ratifications; and his said Catholic Majefly affuresto
them, by this article, the entire enjoyment of what is
above flipulated ; provided that these stipulations shall
not be ranfidered as derogatory in any refpeft from
the rights of his sovereignty.
Art. 5. His Catholic Majefly shall reflore to
Great-Britaim the Islands of Providence and the Ba
hamas, without exception in the fame condition in
which t ey were, when they were conquered by the
arms of the King of Spain.
■ Art. 6. All tecountries and territories which may
have been, cr may be conquered in any part of the
world whatsoever by toe arms of his Britannic Ma
jesty, or by those of his Catholic Majesty, and which
are not included in our present articles, shall be re
Bored without difficulty, and without requiring com
penfitions.
Art 7. By the definitive Treaty, all those which
have exited till now between the two High contrasting
parties, and which shall not be derogated from either
by the said Treaty, or by the present Preliminary
Treaty, shall be renewed and confirmed ; and the two
Courts shall name Commissioners to enquire into the
fiate of the commerce between the two nations, in or
der to agree upon new arrangements of trade, on the
footing of reciprocity and mutual convenience; and
the two said Courts shall together, amicably fix a
Competent term for the duration of that business.
Are. 8. As it is necessary to assign a fixed epoch
for the reftirutions and evacuations to be made by
each of the high contrasting parties, it is agreed, That
the King of Great Britain shall cause Bast Florida to
be evacuated, three months after the ratification of
the Definitive Treaty, or sooner if it can be done.
The King of Great-Britain shall likewise enter again
into possession of the Bahama Islands, without ex
ception. ia the space of three months after the ratifi
cation of the Definitive treaty.
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 9. Tre prisoners made refpeftively by the armsof
his Britannic Majesty, and his Catholic Majesty, by sea
and by land, shall immediately after the ratification
of the Definitive Treaty, be reciprocally and bona fi
de reflored without ransom, and on paying the debts
they may have contracted during their captivity, and
each Crown shall refpeaively reimburse the sums which
shall have been advanced for the fu bfiflence and main
tenance of their prisoners by the Sovereign of the coun
try where they shall have been detained, according to
the receipts and attested accounts, and other authen
tic titles which shall be produced on each fide.
Arc. 10. In order to prevent all causes of complaint
and dispute, which may arise on account of prizes
which may be made at sea after the fignihg of these
Preliminary Articles, it is reciprocally agreed, that
the ihips and effefts w rich may be taken in the Cham,
^i, or in the North Seas, after the space of twelve
days, to be compute 4 from the ratification of the pre
sent Preliminary Articles, shall be restored on each fide.
Toat the term shall be one month from the Channel
and the North Seas as far as the Canary Islands in
cb fively, whether in tie ocean or in the Mediterranean;
two months from the said Canary Islands as far as the
Equinoctial Line, or Equator, and,la flly, five months
in all parts of the world, without exception, or other
more description of time and place.\
Art. 11. The 'ratifications of the present Prelimi
nary Articles shall be expedited in goed and due form,
and exchanged in the space of one month, or sooner
if it can be done, to be computed from the day of the
signature cf the present articles.
In witness whereof, we the under-written Ministers
Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majefly and of his
Catholic Majesty, by virtue of our refpe&ive powers,
have agreed upon and signed these Preliminary Ar
ticles, and have caused the seal of our arms to be put
thereto.
Done at Versailles, the 20th day January, 1783.
AfLEYNE FITZ-HERBERT, (L. S.)
LE COMTE D'ARANDA, (L. S.)
Articles agreed upon by and between Richard Oswald,
esquire, the Commissioner of his Britannic Majefly,
for treating of Peace with the Commissioners of the
United States of America, in behalf of his said Ma
jefly, on the one part, and John Adams, Benjamin
Franklin, John Jay, and Henry Laurens, four of
the Commissioners of the said States for treating of
Peace with the Commissioner of his said Majesty, on
their behalf, on the other part; to be inserted in
and to constitute the Treaty of Peace proposed to
be concluded between the Crown of Great Britain
and the said United States; but which Treaty is not
to be concluded until terms of a Peace shall be
agreed upon between Great Britain and France ;
and his Britannic Majefly shall be ready to conclude
such Treaty accordingly.
WHEREAS reciprocal advantages and mutual
convenience are found by experience to form
the only permanent foundation of peace and friendfhip
between States, it is agreed to form the Articles of
the proposed Treaty on such principles of liberal equi
ty and reciprocity, as that partial advantages, those
feeds of difeord, being excluded, such a beneficial and
fatisfaaory intercourse between the two countries may
be established a# to promise, and secure to both perpe
tual peace and harmony.
Art. i. His Britannic Majefly acknowledges the said
United States, viz. New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-
Bay, Rhode-lfland. and Providence Plantations, Con
ne&icut, New-York, New Jerley, Pennsylvania, Dela
ware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Ca
rolina, and Georgia, to be Free, Sovereign, and In
dependent States: that he treats with them as such;
and for himfelf, his heirs and successors, relinquishes
all claim to the government, propriety, and territorial
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 States, may be
prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the
following are and fliall be their boundaries, viz.
Art. 2. From the north-weft angle of Nova Scotia,
viz. that angle ♦hich is formed by a line drawn due
north from the source of Saint Croix River to the High
lands ; along the said islands, which divide those rivers
that empty themselves into the River Saint Laurence
from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the
north weflernmoft head of Connecticut River, thence
down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth
degree of north latitude, from thence by a line due
weft on said latitude, until it strikes the River Iro
quois or Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said
river into Lake Ontario, through the middle of said
lake, until it firikes the communication by water be
tween that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the mid
dle of fail Communication into Lake Erie, through
the middle M said lake until it arrives at the water
communication between that lake and Lake Huron;
thence along the middle of said water communication
into the Lake Huron; thence through the middle of
said lake to the water communication between that lake
and Lake Superior; thence through Lake Superior,
northward of the Illes, Royal and Phelipeaux, to the
Long Lake, thence through the middle of said Long
Lake, and the water communication between it and
the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods;
thence through the said lake to the most north-weflern
point thereof, and from thence on a due weft course to
the River Miffiffiippi; thence by a line to be drawn
along the middle of the said River Mississippi, until it
shall intercept the northernmof ipart of the thirty firft
degree of'north latitude. South, by a line to be drawn
due east from the determination of the line last menti
oned, in the latitude of thirty-one degrees north of the
Equator, to the middle of the River Apalachicola, or
Qtahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its
junction with the Flint River ; thence firait to the head
of Saint Mary's River ; and thence down aloirg the
middle of Saint Mary's River to the Atlantic Ocean.'
Eaf't, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the
River Saint Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fun
dy to its Source, and from its Source directly north to
the aforefaid highlands, which divide the rivers that
fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into
the River Saint Laurence; comprehending all islands
within twenty leagues of any part of the Shores of the
United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due
east from the points where the aforefaid boundaries,
between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East- Flo
rida on the other, shall refpeftively touch the Bay of
Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands
as now are, and heretofore have been, within the limits
of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Art. 3. It is agreed that tire people of the United
States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to
take fifh of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on
all the other Banks of Newfoundland; also in the
Gulph of Saint Lawrence, 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 inha
bitants of the United States shall have liberty to take
frill of every kind on such part of the coast of New
foundland as British fifhermen (hall use (but not to
dry or cure the fame on that island) and al 0 on the
coasts, bays and creeks, of all other of his Bri annic
Majefly's dominions in America; and that the Ame
rican fifhermen (hall have liberty to dry and cure fifh
in ^ny of the Unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks,
of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so
long as the fame shall remain unsettled, but so soon aS
the fame or either of them shall be fettled, it shall nor
be lawful for the said fifhermen to dry or cure fi(h at:
such settlement, without a previous agreement for
that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or
poffeflors 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 Herling money, of all bona fide debts
heretofore contraßed-
Chriftiana-trdge, Newcastle county, March 22.
Sixteen Dollars Reward,
LAST night the stable of the fubferiber was broke
open, and from thence dole a light iron Grey
HORSE, 9 years old, about 14 hands high, in
good order, food all round, trots and centers well,
high carriage when rode, short switch tri!, his mane
hangs to tiie off fide, one of his hind feet white above
the p^fture joint, has what the jockies call a feather on
one fide of his neck, his files fhnred with riding, has
neither brand nor ear-mark^ Whoever takes up and (-
cures said horse and thief, so that he may be prosecuted,
(had have the above reward, and for the horse only
1 HREE POUNDS and r^afonable charges, if brought
home, paid by JOHN HALL.
Art. 5. It is agreed that the Congress fliall earned -
ly recommend it to the legislatures of the refpeßive
States, to provide for the restitution of all estates,
rights, and properties, which have been confifeated,
belonging to real British fubjeds, and also of the
estates, rights, and properties of persons resident in dif
trifts, in the possession of his Majesty's arms, and who
have not borne arms against the said United States.
And that persons of any other description shall have
free liberty to go into any part or parts of any of the
Thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve
months unmolefled in their endeavours to obtain the
restitution cf such of their estates, rights, and proper
ties, as may have been confifcated ; and that Congress
shall also earuefily recommend to the several States a
reconsideration and revision of all ads or laws regarding
the premihs, so as to render the said laws or alls per
fedly confident, not only with justice and equity, but
with that fpirft of Conciliation, which on the return of
the blessings of peace should universally prevail. And
that Congress shall also earnestly recommend to the se
veral States, that the estates, rights, and properties of
such last mentioned persons shall be restored to them;
they refunding to any persons who may be now in pos
session the bona fide price (where any has been given)
which such persons may have paid on purchasing any
of the said lands or properties since the confifeation.
And it is agreed, That all persons who have any in
terest in confifcated lands, either by debts, marriage
settlements, or otherwise, fliall meet wih no lawful im
pediment in the prosecution of their just rights.
Art. 6. That there shall be no future conffcations
made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any
person or persons for or by reason of the part which he @r
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 property, and
that those who may be in confinement on such charges,
at the time of the ratification of the Treaty in America,
shall be immediately set at liberty, and the prosecuti
ons so commenced be difeontinued.
Art. 7. There shall be a firm and perpetual peace
between his Britannic Majesty and the said States, and
between the fubjeds of the one and the citizens of the
other, wherefore all hoflilities both by sea and land
shall then immediately cease : all prisoners on bo:h tides
fliall be set at liberty, and his Britannic Majesty shall,
with all convenient speed, and without causing any
deftruftion, or carrying away any negroes, or other
property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all
his armies, garrisons, and fleets from the said United
States, and from every port, place, and harbour with
in the fame; leaving in all fortifications the American
artillery that may be therein: and shall also order,
and cause all archives, records, deeds, and papers,
belonging to any of the said States, 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 persons to whom
they belong.
Art. 8. The navigation of the Mississippi from its
source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open
to the fubjeds 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-Brita n or to the Unit
ed States, fliould be conquered by the arms of either
from the 6ther, before the arrival of these articles in
America, it is agreed, that the fame shall be restored
without difficulty, and without requiring any compen
sation.
Done at Paris, the thirtieth day of November, in
the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty
two.
RICHARD OSWALD (L. S.)
JOHN ADAMS (L. S )
B. FRANKLIN (L. S.)
JOHN JAY (L. S.)
HENRY LAURENS (L. S.)
Witness,
Caleb Wbitefoor%
Secretary to the British Commission,
W. S. Franklin,
Secretary to the American Commission.
St. JA M E S's February 8.
One of the king's meflengers, dispatched by Mr.
Fitzherbert, at Pari— arrived here this day, with the
most chriftisn king) ratification of the preliminary ar
ticles, signed the 20th of January last, which was ex
changed with Mr, Fitzherbert on the 3d instant, at
Versailles, by the minister plenipotentiary of his molt
chriftian majesty.