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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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The following State Paper hils been unavoidably omitted'
in consfrquence of the great pressure of important news for
the last three weeks. The subsequent prt will be given in
ear next if nothing of a more-important nature arrives.

SIat)PLENTENT TO THE GAZETTE, TuEsimv, MARcn 14

FollEics OFFICE, MARCH 14, 181..

A TREATY of PEACE anil AMI FY between Ilia Britannic Mie
je•t Y and the United States of America; signed at Ghent, De-
cember 44, la 14,
Ani teat! I. Ti crc 311 II be a firm and universal Peace between
his Britannic Majesty and the United States, and between their re-
soective cointr:es, tini italics, cities, towns, and people of every
arg •c a ithont excel, im of places or persons. All hostilities both
by ,ea had shall cc ase as soon as this Treaty shall have been
ratified by both p;irlic.s as hereinafter-mentioned. All territory,
places, and passessiens whatsoever, taken by either party from the
other dm lag the wit, or which may be taken after the signing of
this Ti. al, excepting only the islands hereafter-mentioned,
be tetored ithout del, y, and without can-sing any destruction, or.
coriyieg away any of the artillery,-or other public pretperty,
origi-
Rally captur.-d in the said forts. or places, and which-shall reMain
th 4 rent upon the exchange of the Ratifications of this Treaty, or
as!), slaves or other private property. And all archieves, records,
deeds, and papers, either of a public nature, or belonging to private.
persons, which in the course of the war may have fallen into the
bands of the officers of either party. shall be, as far as may he prac-
ticable, forthwith restored, and delivered to the proper authorities
and persona to Whom Ihey respectively belong.
Such.of the islands in the Bay nt Passamaquoddy as are claimed
ley both parties shall rental!' in the possession of the party in whose
occupation thoy may be at the time of the exchange of the ratifita--
tion of ill a Treaty, nutil the decision respecting the title to the said
isrindr shall have been made, in conformity with the fourth article
sf this Treaty.
No disposition made by this Treaty. as to such possession of the
islands and territories claimed by both parties, shall in any manner
whatever be construed to affect the right of either.
ART. 11. Immediately after the ratifications of this Treaty by
both parties as herein after mentiented, orders shall be sent to the
:'sties, squadrons, officers, subjects, and citizens of the two powers,
to cease limn all hostilities. And to prevent all causes of complaint
which might arise on account of the prizes which may be taken at
servo rifles- the said ratifications of this Treaty, it is reciprocally agreed,
that all vessels and effects which may be taken after the space of
twelve days from the said ratifications, upon all parts of Use coast of
ilitorth America, from the latitude of '23 degrees north, to the lati•
male of ,o degrees north, and as far eastward in the Atlantic Ocean
as the degree of west longitude from the meridian of Green-
wich, shall be restored on each side, that the time shall be thirty
days in all other parts of the Atlantic Ocean north of the equinoc-
tial line or equator, and the same time for the British and Irish
Channels, for the Gulf of Mexico, and all parts of the West Indies;
forty days for the North Seas, for the Baltic, and for all parts of
the Mediterranean • sixty days for the Atlantic Ocean, south of the
equator, as far as tile latitude of the Cape of Good Hope ; ninety
days for every other pat t of die world south of the equator, and one
hundred and twenty days for all other parts of the world without
exception
• AnT. HI. All prisoners of war taken on either side, as well by
land' as by sea, shall be restored as soon as practicable after the ra-
tblication ot' this Treaty as herein after mentioned, on their paying
11# debts which they may have-contracted during their captivity.
The two contracting parties respectively engage to discharge in
*Tie the advances which may have been made by the other for the
sustenance and maintenance of such prisoners.
• AWL IV. Whereas it was stipulated by the 2d Article in the
Treaty of Peace of i 783, betwi en his Britannic Majesty and the
United States of America, that the boundary of the United States
should comprehend " all islands within twenty leagues of any part
OF the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be
',Prawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries,
between. Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the
setter, shall respectively toilet' the Ray of Fundy and the Atlantic
Ok7can, excepting; such islands as now are, or heretofore have been
*it'd,' the limits of Nova Scotia ;" and whereas the several islanits
in the Bay: of Passamaquoddy, Which is pat t the Bay of Fundy,
tfie illatid of Grand Men in, in the said Bay of Fundy, ar
Manned by the United States, as being comprehended within their
atoresaid boundaries, which said islandS are claimed as balongiug to
kis Britannic Majesty, as having been at the truly of, and previous

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to the aforesaid Treaty of 178 S, within the limits of the province of
Nova Smile ;—in order, therefore, finally, to decide upon these
claims, it is agreed that they shall be referred to two Commissioners,
' to be appointed in the following manner. viz. :—One Commissioner
shall be appointed by hisßritannie•Majesty, and one by the Presi-
dent of the United State., by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate thereof; and the said two Commissioners, so appointed,
shall be sworn impartially •to examine and decide upon the said
Claims, according to stir+ evidence as shall he laid before them on
the part of. his Britannic Majesty and of the United States re-
spectively. The said Commissioners shall meet at st. Andrews, in
the province of New Brunswick, and shall have power to adjourn to
such other place or places as they shall think fit. The said Com-
missioners sh.tll by a declaration or report tinder their heeds and
seals, decide to which of the two contracti:.g parties the several
islands aforesaid do respectfully belong, in conformity with the true
intent of the' said Treaty of Peace of 1785: and it' the said Com-
missioners shall agree in their decision, both parties shall consider
such decisioleax final and conclusive. •-
It is further agreed, that in the event of the two Commissioners
.differing upon all or any of the matters so referred to them, or in the
event of both or either of the said Commiseimsers refusing or dechu-
log; or wilfully omitting to act as such, they shall make jointly or
separately, report or reports,. as well as the Government Of hie
'Britannic Majesty, as to that of the United States, stating in detail
Ifte points on which they differ, and the grouuds upon which their
respective opinions have been formed, or the grounds upon which
they, or either et* tine*, leave so retinal, declined. or omitted to act.
And his Britannic Majesty and the Government of the United
States hereby agree to refer the report or reports of tin said Com-
missioners to some friendly sovercien or state, to he thee named
for that purpose, and who shall he requested to decide on the differ-
ences which may be stated in the said report or reports, or upon
the report-of one Commissioner,. together with the grounds upon
which the other Commissioner shall have refused, declined, or omit-
ted to act, as the case may be. And if the Commissioner, so rein- .
sing, declining, or omitting to act. shall also wilfully omit to state
the grounds upon V, hick he has so done, in such manner that the
said stateineut may be referred, to such friendly
.Sovereign or State,
together with the report of such Commissioner, that such Sovereign
-or State shall decide, ex parte, upon the said report alone ; and his
Britannic Majesty and the Government of the Uuited States engage
to consider the decision °flinch friendly Sovereign or State to be
final and conclusive on all the matters so referred.
ART. V. Whereas neither that point of the highlands lying due
north from the source of the river St. Croix, designated in the
former Treaty of peace between the two powers as the N. 'W. angle
of Nova Scotia,nor the N. W. head of Connecticut river, have yet been
ascertained ; and whereas that part of the boundary line between
the dominions of the two powers, which extends hem the source of
the river Ss. Croix, directly north to. the above mentioned north-
west angle of Novia Scotia, thence along the said highlands which
divide those rivers that empty themselves into' the river St. Lawrence,
from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the 'with-western-
' most head of Connecticut river, thence down along the middle of
that river to the 45th degree of north latitude. thence by a line due
west on said latitude until it strikes the river Iroquois or Cataragny,
has not yet been surveyed, it is agreed that for these several purpo-
ses two Commissioners shall be appointed, sworn, and Authorised, to
act exactly in the manlier directed with respect to those mentioned
in the next preceding article, finless otherwise specified in the
present article. The said Commissioners shall meet at St. And, ews,
in the province of New Brunswick, anti shall have powei to
adjourn to such other places as they shall think fit. The said
Commissioners shall have Towel. to ascertain ano determine the
points above nu ntioned, in conformity with the provisions of the
said Ti eaiy of Peace of 1183 ; and shall cause the boundary aforesaid,
from the source of the river St. Croix, so the iiver Iroquois or Cate-
, rage), to be surveyed and marked according to the said provisions ;
the said Commissioners shall make a map of the said boundary, and
annex to it a declaration under their hands and seals, certifying it to
be a title map of the said boundary, and partieularieing the latitude
and I,ingitude Of the north-rest angle of Noe a Scotia, of the north-
westernmost head of Connecticut River, and of such other points of
the said boundary as they may deem proper : and Willi parties
agree to consider such map and decimation as finally ard conclu-
sively the said boundary. And in the event of the said two
Commissioners differing, or both, or either of them, refusing, it cline
suing, or omitting to act, such repurta, declarations er ;tateinents
shall be made by them, or either of them, and such rettrenee to a
frieedly Sovereign. or State shall be made in all respects, as in the
latter part of the fourth article is coutained,j and iu as full a 'manner
as it tLc saws: was herein repeated.