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'"ft it was at this moment in a most glorious
condition - thips, his lordihip observed, could
not spring up like mufhroons under our feet.
I therefore, the navy was so bad in April, and
in so excellent a condition no &, it must be owing
t> the quantity of stores and preparations got
ready for the campaign of the pait lummer, by
his noble friend, lately at the head of the ad
miralty, of whole abilities, afiiduity, and zeal
for the Service he had long been convinced.
He nrght now therefore fay to the prefect na
val Alexander, "Your fuccefles have been glo
rious and triumphant, but you conquered with
the forces of Philip ’'His lordihip dwelt for
some time on the mode of fettling terms with
America, and drennoufly infilled upon it, that
it behoved rhe gratitude, the generosity, and the
charity of this country to take care, that an a
dequate provision was made for the fafety and
property of those perfuns, who from motives of
loyalty to the perfow iof his majesty, and from
motives of regard for this country, had let their
all at ttake to fuppart government in the war,
and to affill Great Britain in her endeavours to
recover America. He gave ministers alio his
opinion in terms of great energy, upon the con
duct that ought to be held in negotiating a
peace with France at this crifi:. He observed
it had been suggested that fame difficulties had
arisen in contequence of certain suspicions en
tertained of the sincerity of a noble earl high
in office lithe fact were so, if the treaty were
managed with proper spirit, it could be of no
canfequence. He advised ministers to aft with
firmueis and spirit ; he bid them fay to the com
missioners of France, " talk not to us of this, or
that in dvidnal, we treat for the British nation.
However we may have our internal (boggles
for power, and our differences upon speculative
points, with regard to regulations of reform
at home, we are agteed as one man with regard
to you, and we treat with you on that ground,
and on that ground only," His lordihip added,
that he himfelf, and he hoped, situated as we
now were, every man considered a domestic op
ponent, however virulent, however severe,
however formidable, as his bofum friend, in
comparison with the man, be he either French
man, Spaniard, Dutchman or even American,
who drew i is sword against this country. That
till that sword was sheathed, he ihould hold
that man his bitterell foe, and treat him accord
irgly. Bhat it was by foch condtid only, we
could reafbnably hope for a peace, at once fafe,
lading and honourable He hoped, therefore,
minitiers would listen to no extravagant de e
mauds of cession and facrifice declaring, that
though after a war, that had been on the whole
rather unfortunate and calamitous, we could
not expect to make as good a peace as we bad a
right to infill on, at the end of a war replete
with glorious fuccefUs, that nevertheless, arm
ed as we now were, we bad every tiling to
look'for from the valour and fkdl of our admi
rals and captains, and the bravery and zeal of
our faiiors and fiddlers, and therefore were uu
der no necessity of making mean and difgrace
fu) corceffions, His lordihip also made several
remarks on the different pattages of the speech
and address, and declared that he had never
considered avowing the independence of Ameri
ca as a thing good for England, though he was
of opinion, that after parliament had ordered
it to be conceded, a miniiter was bound to grant
it. Ou this ground hejuftified the earl of Shel
burne, declaring that he had not set the fun of
Great-Britain, but that parliament had been
the magician and the wizzird that had conjured
it down. His lordihip also noticed what Mr.
Fox had said respecting his ideas of the legality
of fubferibing sums for the use of government.
He quoted lord Hardwicke, to prove that that
lawyer had decifivly declared it was perfectly
legal: his lordihip added, that he had ever
th^u, t so, but at the fame time he agreed that
the expenditure ^ught to be accounted for
to that house, as much as the expenditure of
any, other public money. He laughed at the
idea of calling it (hip money, and (hewed that
what had been formerly so termed was not ille
gal, because of its application to the building
of fliips, but because it had been forced from
the fubjedt by the privy council, without the
consent and concurrence of that houfe* He ex
plained alfb the nature of what bad been Glfely
termed benevolences, but declared thdt volun
tary gifts to government, such as one he had
heard mentioned, though from its size it might
remain unexampled io A century, did the donor
the # highest honour, and might be productive of
the belt conf.quences, as all public subscripti
ons if individuals' ever were. T> prove this,
his lordihip instanced the case of France, after
their treaty of Gerruyedenbeig, and said it
might happen that the government of this
Country in confluence of extraordinary cala-
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mity and ill success, should find itfelf obliged
to apply to the people, in which case the libe
ral fubfeription of the higher gentry would ope
rate most beneficially, by causing the poorer
ranks of the people to bear with chearfulnefs.
the burthens necessarily imposed upon them.
For these reasons, his lord/hip said, be hoped
that no notions of refined {peculation upon the
confiituiionality of the practice, would be dwelt
and reasoned upon, since it could answer no
good end, but might damp that noble spirit of
generous and hearty support of government,
which by shewing that the people were zealous
in the cause of their country, was the belt means
of convincing our enemies of the little ground
there was for them to hope by perseverance, to
drive us into humiliation and despondency.
After defcanring on these and a great variety
of other important particulars, wi s h infinite
clearness, and more than even his ordinary snare
of ability, his lordship desired that, ^n not op
posing the address, he might not be hereafter
deemed liable to the charge of having, by his
assent that day, precluded himfelf from object
ing to the particulars of the provisional terms
with America should they, when laid before
the house, appear to him to be objectionable ;
and having enforced this desire in such an ex
plicit manner as rendered it impoffibie for him
to be mifunderfl ood, his lordship concluded
with again earnestly recommending that house
to be unanimous on the present occasion, in hr
tier to convince our enemies that nothing but
an honourable peace fliould prevent a vigorous
continuance <f the war on the part (if Great-
Britain.
Mr. Burke accused lord Shelburne with
expressly laying the blame of granting the
independency of America on parliament, in
the words of the speech. He allo charged
Mr. Pitt with acrimony, and said he would
exercise an old man's right and give him a
lesson. He then entered upon an examina
tion of the chancellor of the cxch<Guer's
Ipeech, and cenlured various parts of it.
Sir Joseph Mawbey delivered a strong pa
negyrick on lord Shelburne, grounding his
praise on the uniform tenorefthe nobtecaim
condud from the commencement of the
American war.
General Smith laid a few words relative
to that part of the speech, which referred
to India, and then it being I EN o'clock,
the Address was read and agreed to.
[The printer hopes his cuftern^s ^ill admit th,
length and importance of the foregoing advices to ;e
a good apology for keeping back nA poMicAioe to
this Are hour, as it #as noon letter y bes re he
procured the papers which funrfhd 'i^ with this
interesting matter. Thursday 11 o'clock.]
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a
long and able speech, asserted the fair and
honourable intentions or minrfters. He
declared, thev desired not toenfnare any one
man, or tie him down to more than the
address, on the face of it exprefftd. He
owned the principles on which administra
tion were proceeding, were laid down in
the time of Mr. Fox's being in office, and
that ministers were now pursuing the fyl
tem, of which the speech of that day was a
detail. He laid, he felt Mr Fox's laying in
his claim to a snare of tee merit as a com
pliment, and that he would, with his leave,
parody the two ludicrous lines he had
quoted :
You've given us noble praise ; but in your nature's
flight,
You hoped to find us wrong, but fee we're charly
[ri^t.
Mr Pitt with great solemnity protested,
as a man of honour, he would never be a
party to a profeflion which he did not ex
ped to fee fulfilled, nor league with those
who profefftd more than than they intend
ed to perform. In arfwtr to what had been
said by lord North and others of thedifficu!-
ty of fpeading to provisional terms, until
laid fully before the house, Mr. Pitt said,
he trufled the noble lord, who had so ably
and so jutfly adviled ministers what to do ii
the prelent crisis, and every other man of
candour preient would admit, that it was
not unreasonable 7o exped that a few
days might pass before they would be rioe
for communication.
Philadelphia; March 13.
Yesterday morning the Washington packet,
captain Barney, arrived here from I'Orient
which fee left the 1 7th of January. The pub
lic dispatches received by this vessel, although
they do not announce a peace to be concluded,
yet the negotiations were Hill going on, every
thing was fettled between America and Great-
Bii'ain, many obftacies were removed towards
constituting a peace between France and Great-
Britain, me count Vergennes having ex
prefled on that occasion that he had more hopes
than fears. But it was found difficult to ad
just matters between Great-Britain, Spain and
Holland —The extreme length of the debates
in the Biitilh parliament, has prevented our
giving a ^uate: variety of the news brought by
captain Barney, but we will more particularly
attend to it in our next.
Extract of a teeter dated L'Orient, January 7th
^ Since our writing the letters which accompa
ny this, the appearance offence has blow Ho
ver much, and it is the opinion of every person
a, Paris, with whom we communicate, that the
prospect 01 it is at a greater difiance than could
well he expected."
W e are indebted to a kind correspondent for a
communication ofthe following outlines of
the articles of a treaty, between Great Bri
tain and the united states of America, agreed
on at Paris, the 30th of November last.
B, the firit article his Britannic MajeGy ac
knowledges the independence of the united
Bates in its fulkft extent; and, for himfelf, heirs
and successors, relinquishes all claims to the
fame.
By the second, rhe boundaries of the united
Ua^es, me fixed in the mod fatiffactory manner
I he third fays, that the peopleof the united
dates thall have a right to filh on the Grand
Bank, and all the other bankt of Newfoundland
aifo in the gulpb of ot. Lawrence, and at all ol
liter places were the inhabitants of both c< on
tries used to fifh. But 'they shall not cure them
on the island of Newfoundland ; but in the un
settled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Sco
tia, Magdalen Alands and Labrador, so loner as
the fame fnAI remain unsettled.
The ft urth flipulates that the creditors on ei
ther fide fnall meet with no lawful impediment
to the recovery of all bona fide debts heretofore
contracted.
By the fifth it is agreed, that the congress
shall recommend it to the legislatures of the dif
ferent flares 10 provide for the restitution of all
property which has been confiscated belonging
to real British subjects ; and also of the estates
of per sons resident in diflri&s in pofleffion of
the British arms, and who have not born arms a
gaiud the said united flares ; perfims of any 0-
ther description to have liberty of going into a
ry of the mired ft^s, there to remain 12
months unmolested, in their endeavours to regain
their property. Congress also to recommend to
the Gates a revifel o f their laws for confi fcation ;
and that the estates <f the persons last described
shall be rettored to rlom, they refunding to the
P r °," own^r the price paid for such estates.
Ihe sixth article fays, there shall be no fu
tute confifeaßc^s m^<le „ nor any profecuticns
commenced tc^ainft ary person, for the nart be
may have taken in tie war ; and that no person
Iha'.l on that, account faffer any future lots 0%
damage ; thole who may be confined on such
charges budl be ^ at liberty on the ratification
ofthis treaty in America. *
the seventh article fays there shall be a firm
and perpetual peace between his Britannic ma
jetty and the tail ftaies; accordingly ail hosti
lities to cease, and a'l prisoners on both hides
set at lid.t, the Briiiih forces to be withdrawn
as focn as p&ffible.
file eighth allele agrees that the navigati
on office river MAaippi shall be free for the
people of both countries.
By the ninth article it is fixe I, that if any
place 01 territory belonging to Great-Briiain or
the united Gates fbnidd be conquered by q^
arms of either from the other, before the arri
val of tie abeve articles in America, the
shall be reflored. °
The preamble to the treaty declares, that it
is only provFonal, and not to h e f m j, until
terms of pacifica no are agreed upon between
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