The Gazette of the state of South-Carolina — Charles-town [S.C.], 1783-12-18 00:00:00, page 2

Order ?--An Order, that, instead of
rewarding, leverely punishes our loyalty;
instead of gladeningjhe hearts of the few
remaining with the Bridal flag, excites en
vy towards those placed under a different
dominion ; and indead of alleviating, very
sorely increases, our pad Offerings.
Base misrepresentations and nefarious
councils must have been dealt forth to the
bed of Princes on this occasion.
A Minister high in rank and office, we
are told, 'fabricated an idea which he
gravely attempted to impole on Parliament
—that the Weft India Islands, supporting
a great commerce by the building Ihips
of large burthen, would rejoice fit the
reftridive exceptions in this Proclamation.
If treacherous falfnood, or ifgrofs igno
rance gives birth to measures so injurious,
so very dedrufbive; must we not repine
and remonstrate, who are immediately un
der their direful influence.
Willing obedience to the Laws of our
Mother country, and tame yielding to dis
tresses appearing as national necefities
have long marked, and we hope will long
continue large features of our character :
But tameness wil on this occasion become
infamy, because acquiescence will lead to
ruin and to beggary.
.House then and fee wharexpedienscan
be adopted to avert this horrid evil—Pas
sive obedience ever firice the glorious Re
volution, has been abblifhed as a tenet of
our constitutional Creed.
The conduce of very loyal fellow sub,
jeds in England, hold forth examples of
patriotic spirit, and point out modes in
which redress is fought for in all cases of
grievance. At the several different Coun
ty Affixes, being the most ulual numerous
alfembhes of the people we find necessary
steps often then taken, 'either finally or
preparatory, by the Magistracy and Grand
J%, whole leading sentiments are gene,
rally co ouuve ^ the v hole Differing body
of the Country.
Our Grand Seffioris bearing much affi
nity to the Affixes, particularly in a large
and refpedable meeting of the ifiand, —
what then can prevent the Gentlemen of
the Magistracy and the Grand Jury here,
from adopting the similar conduct prac
tised by similar classes in England on simi
lar occasions of public grievances.—Per-
haps no inftarices in that kingdom-, for
many years has happened, big with filch
mifehief, as this Proclamation, will teem
forth on Antigua.
Many of the PEOPLE.
LOND O N.
September 30, 1783.
The DEFINITIVE TREATY between Gr.at-
Britain and the United States of Ame
rica, fgned at Paris, the 3d day of Decem
ber, 1783.
In the Name of the most Holy and
Undivided Trinity.f
ST having pleased the divine Providence
to dispose the hearts of the Most SeA
rene and Most Potent Prince George the
Third, by the Grace of God, King of
Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, 'De
fender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick
and Lunenburgh, Arch Treasurer and
Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Em
pire, &c. and of the United States of A
merica, to forget all p a st misunderstand
ings and differences that have unhappily
interrupted the good correspondence and
friendfhip which they mutually wish to
restore, and to establish such a' beneficial
and fatisfadory intercourse. between th
two countries, upon the ground of reci
procial advantages and mutual conveni
ence, as may promote and secure to both
perpetual peace and harmony; and hav^
ing for this definable end already laid the
foundation of peace and reconciliation, by
the PfovifionaLArtides signed at Paris on
the 30th of November, 1782, by the
Commissioners empowered on each part,
which Articles were agreed to be inferred
in, and to Cenftitute the Treaty of Peace
proposed to be concluded between the
Trriwn of Great-Britain and the United
States, but which Treaty was net to be
concluded until terms of Peace should be
agreed upon between Grefoßrit^in 'and
France, and his Britanic Majesty should
be ready to conclude such treaty accord
ingly; and the Treaty between Great-
Britain and France having since been con
cluded, his Britanic Majesty and the U
nited States of America, in order to' carry
"Into full effect the Provisional Articles a
bove mentioned, according to the tenor
thereof; have cofflitufed and "appointed,
thatis to fay, his Britanic Majesty on 'his
part, David Hartley, Esq; Member of
the Parliament of Great -Britain, and'the
Fiid United States on their part, John
Adams, Elsy late a Commissioner of the
United States of America at the Court of
Versailles, late Delegate in Cengrefs from
the State of Mafiachofe^ and Chief
Justice of the fold State, and Minister
‘Plenipotentiary of the said United States to
"their High Mightinesses the Stapes-Gene
ral of the Unted Netherlands; Benjamin
Franklin, Elq; late Delegate in Congress
from the State of Pennsylvania, President
ofth,e Convepti m of the said State, and
and Minister plenipotentiary from the
United States of America at the Court of
Versailles; and John Jay, | sq ; late Pre
sident of Congress, arid Chief Justice of
the State ofNew-York, and Minister Ple
nipotentiary from the laid United States
at the Court of Madrid, to be the Pleni
potentiaries for the concluding and Signing
the pfefent Definitive Treaty; who after
having reciprocally communicated their
refpeftive full powers, have agreed upon
and confirmed the following Articles:
Art. I. His Britannic Majesty acknow
ledges the said United States, viz. New-
Hampshire, Maffaqhufetts-Bay, Rhode-
Bland and ' Providence Plantations, Con
necticut, New-York, NewJerfey, Penn
sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North-Caroling South-Carolina, & Geor
gia, to be Free, Sovereign, and Indepen
dent States^ ,that he treats with them as
such, and for himfelf, his heirs and suc
cessors, relinquishes all claims to the go.
vernment, property, and territorial rights
of the lame, and every part thereof.
Art. 11. And that all disputes which
might arise in future, on the fudged: of
the boundaries of the said United states,
may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and
declared, that the following are and shall
be their boundaries, viz. From the north
west angle of Nova-Scotia, viz. that an
gle which is formed by a line drawn due
north from the source of St. Croix River
to the Highlands, along the said High
lands, which divide thole fivers that emp
ty themselves into the river St. Lawrence,
fi onb those wnich fall into the Atlantic
Oceari, to the north-weftermoft head of
Connedicut.River; thence down the mid
dle of that river to the forty-fifth degree
of north latitude; until it strikes the river
Irriquoi-s or Cataraqui; thence along the
middle of the said river into Lake Ontario,
through the middle of the said Lake until
it Tikesthe communication by water be
t% ;en that lake and Lake Enef thence
r mg the middle of said communication
ito Lake Erie, through the middle of
said lake, until it arrives at the water
communication between that lake and
Lake Iluron, thence through the middle
of said lake to the water communication
between that lake and Lake Superior:
thence through Lake Superior, North
ward of the Isles Royal and Philipeaux to
the Long Lake; thence through the mid
dle of laid Long Lake and the water com
munication betwen it and the Lake of the
Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods ;
thence through the laidriake to the north
western point thereof, and from thence
on a due Weft course to the River Midi
ffippi; thence by a lme<o be drawn along
the middle of the said River MiffiffippG
until it shall interfed the nothernmoft oarc
the thi^ty-firft degree of North latitude,
^outh, by a line to be drawn due East
from the ^determination of the line hit
mentioned in the latitude of thirty-one
degrees North of the Equator, to rhe mid-'
die of the River Apalachicola or Catahou
che; thence along the middle thereof to
its junction with the Flfrit River; thence
ftr ^^ tothe head of ^ Mary's River;
and thence down along the middle of Sn
Mary's River to the Atlantic Oceans
Eafr, by a line to be drawn alon<r°the
middle of the River. St. Croix from its
month in the Bay of Dundy to its source
ai ] d t or ' ', source directly North tb th^
aforesaid fiigmands which divide the ri
vers that fill into the Atlantic Oceanfiom
those which fail into the River St. Law
rence, comprehending all Blanks" within
twenty leagues of any part of the fibre's of
the United States, and lying between
lines, to oe drawn due East from the points
, where jne # aforefaid boundaries between
Nova-Scotia on the one.part, and East-
Florida ton 'the fother, fol refoedively
touca ^ejßafof Fundy and the Atlantic
Ocean, excepting such Biands as now are
^ ve ^ within the limits
of the lain province of Nova-Scotia.
,'A^.JU. It is agreed that the peo
ple or the United States shall continue to
enjoy unrrolefted the right to take fifh of
every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all
the other, Banks of Newfoundland, allbin
the Gulph of St, Lawrence, and all other
peaces in tne sea, where the inhabitants of
both countries used at any time heretofore
'° ""!' . A"'^ allo, that the inhabitants of
tue United States (hall have liberty to
take fifh of every kind on filch part of
the coast of Newfoundland, as British
fishermen ihali use (but not to dry or cure
the fame on that Hand) and also, on the
coasts, bays and creelcs of ail others of
his Britannic Majesty's dominions in Ame
rica; ana the American fishermen ,shall
have liberty to dry fiffi in any of the un
settled bays harbours and creeks of Nora-
Scotia, Magdalen Inlands and Labrador,
so long as the lame shall remain unsettled,
it shall not be lawful for the said fifherman
to chy or cuie firn at fu^h feftlement,
without a previous agreement for that
purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors
or possessors of the ground.
Art. IV. It is agreed that the credi
tors on either fide shall meet with no law
ful impediment to the recovery of the full
value, in flerling money, of ail bona fa
debts heretofore contracted.
Art. V. It is agreed that Congress
shall earnestly recommend it to the Legis
latures of the the refpecteve States,'to
provided for the restitution of all estates,
rights and properties, which have been
confifeated, belonging to real British fub
je&s; and also the estates, rights, and
properties of persons resident Tn diftrifts
in, the possession of his Majesty's arms, and
who have not borne arms against the U
nited States; and that perlons of any
other defcriptlon shall have free liberty to
'S? 1° "T part or parts of the Thirteen
United States, and therein to remain,
twelve months unmolested in their endea
vours to obtain the the restitution of fuc'
of their estates, rights and properties, .s
may have been confifeated: 'and rfat
Congress shall earnestly recommend to the
several states a reconsideration and revi
sion of all fucli Acts or Laws regarding
premises, so as to render the said Laws or