To the cold ArЯic; fee, extended wide,' An empire rife, where freedom fhall refide. Not like old Rome, that chains in friendship gave, Fought but to conquer, conquer'd to enflave; Who, half their fpecies by themselves deftroy'd, On beings brink smil'd ghaftly at the void, Panting to deal to all the blow of fate, And leave no being, but the Roman fate. Not fo Columbia's fons, more generous far, And great in virtue, as they're great in war. Here peace fhall reign,oppreffion ever ceafe, And war be but the harbinger of PEACE. TREATY of PEACE between RUSSIA and the PORTE. THE Imperial Court and the Su blime Ottoman Porte, defirous of seizing every occasion which can tend to conciliate and establish a perfect harmony and friendship between the two powers; and confidering the new face of affairs, and ftate of things in the Crimea, at Taban, and Cuba, are likely to occafion difcuffion, and perhaps a rupture between the two powers, the above Imperial and Ottoman Courts, have refolved to come to a friendly negociation on the faid fubjet, and after having duly weighed and confidered them, are ardently defirous of preventing for the future, any fubject of contention between them, and alfo the advantages of a folid and happy peace, of good neighbourhood and eftablished commerce, have found it neceffary to regulate their future measures upon a folid and permanent foundation. In confequence of these résolutions, the above powers having fully explained themselves each to the other, on the above subject, and defirous of flipulating the prefent under the moft folema engagements and exact obfer. yance, have chofen, and furnished with full powers to compleat the faid treaty, the following perfons, namely, Her Imperial Majefty; the moft Au guft and moft Powerful Emprefs and Sovereign of all the Ruffias, has named on her part the high and noble Jaques de Buthakow, her Envoy extraordinary, and Minifter Plenipotentiary. The Sublime Ottoman Porte, Counsellor of State, and Knight of the Order of St. Waldimir and St. Staniflaus; and his Majesty the Sultan Ottoman, has nominated on his part, the moft honoured and moft efteemed Vizir Kaffan Pacha, his Grand Admiral, Stambul Cadifi actual Cadiaskir, of Natolie, Mufti Zade Ahmed, Effendi, and his Grand Chancellor the actual Hadgi Muftafi Effendi, which Plenipotentiaries aforefaid, after having mutually exchanged their credentials in due form, have figned and fealed the following articles; Art. 1. That the treaty of peace of *774, the convention of the limits of boundaries of 1771, the explanatory convention of 17 79, and the treaty of commerce of 1783, fhall continue to be ftrictly and inviolably observed in all their points and articles, fave and except the 3d and fourth article of the explanatory convention of 1779, which faid articles fhall be of no longer weight or obligatory force between the two empires. But as in the aforefaid third article of the said treaty of 1774, it is declared that the fortrefs of Oczocow, with all its antient territories, fhall belong as formerly to the Sublime Porte; this declaration fhall continue in full force and weight, and continue ftill to be obferved as therein (et forth. Art. 2. It is hereby declared, that theImperial Court of Ruffia fhall never lay claim to the rights that the Kan of Tartary have formed upon the fortress of Sondjore Cafe, and confequently the Court of Ruffia acknowledges the full and fole poffeffion to be in the Ottoman Porte. Art. 3. That in admitting the river Cuba to be the frontier of Cuba, the faid Imperial Court, at the same time, renounces her pretentions to all the Tartar nations, beyond the above river, and from the black fea. And it is hereby alfo definitively agreed, that this act, as well on the part of her Imperial Majesty, the most Auguft and Powerful Emprefs of all the Ruffias, as well as on the part of his Highness the Sultan Ottoman, agreed and confirmed by folemn ratifications, figned and written in the accustomed manner, fhall be exchanged at Conftantinople in the fpace of four months, or fooner if poffible, to reckon from the day of the conclufion of the faid treaty, of which their plenipotentiaries have made their counter-parts, figned with their own hand-writing, fealed with their feals, and mutually exchanged between them. Done and figned at Conftantinople, this ninth day of January, 1784. (figned) JAQUES DE BULNAKOWs. Plenipotentiary from the Empress of Ruffia, and by the Ottoman Plenipotentiaries above named The The committee of Congrefs, who were appointed to draft a plan for the temporary government of the Westein Territory, have prefented the following, which when ratified by that honourable body will form Ten new States, viz. HAT the territory ceded or to be ceded by individual States, to the United States, fall be formed into diftin&t States, bounded in the following manner, as nearly as fuch ceffions will admit; that is to fay, northward ly and fouthwardly by parallels of latitude, fo that each State hill com. prehend from fouth to north two de grees of latitude, beginning to count from the completion of thirty-one degrees north of the equator: But any territory northwardly of the 47th degree, fhall make part ofthe State next Below. And eastwardly and weftward. ly they fhall be bounded, thofe on the Miffifippi by that river on one fide, and the meridian of the lowest point of the rapids of Ohio on the other; and thofe adjoining on the eaft, by the fame meridian on the western fide, and on their eaftern, by the meridian of the western cape of the mouth of the Great Kanhaway. And the territory eastward of this laft meridian, between the Ohio, Lake Erie, and Pennfylvania, fhall be one State. That the fettlers within any of the faid States fhall, either on their own petition, or on the order of Congrefs, receive authority from them, with appointments of time and place, for their free males of full age to meet together for the purpose of establishing a temporary government, to adopt the conftitution and laws of any one of the States, fo that fuch laws neverthelefs fhall be fubje& to alteration by their ordinary legislature; and to erect, fubject to a like alteration, counties or townships, for the election of members for their legislature. That fuch temporary government fhall only continue in force in any fiate, until it fhall have acquired twenty thousand free inhabitants; when giving due proof thereof to Congrefs, they hall receive from them authori ty, with appointments of time and place, to call a convention of repreTentatives to establish a permanent conftitution and government for them. fel ves. Provided that both the temporary and permanent governments be eftablifhed on thefe principles as their ba fis. 1. That they fhall forever remain a part of the United States of America. 2. That in their persons, property' and territory, they shall be fubject to the government of the United States in Congrefs affembled, and to the articles of confederation, in all thofe cafes in which the original States fhall be fo fubject. 3. That they fhall be fubject to pay a part of the federal debts contracted or to be contracted, to be apportioned on them by Congrefs, according to the fame common rule and measure, by which apportionments thereof fhall be made on the other States. 4. That their refpective governments fhall be in republican forms, and fhall admit no perfon to be a citizen who holds any hereditary title.. 5. That after the year 1800 of the chriftian æra, there fhall be neither flavery nor involuntary fervitude in any of the faid States, otherwife than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been perfonally guilty. That whenfoever any of the faid States fhall have, of free inhabitants, as many as fhall then be in any one of the leaft numerous of the thirteen original States, fuch States shall be admitted by its delegates, into the Congrefs of the United States on an equal footing with the faid original States; after which the affent of two-thirds of the United States in Congrefs affembled fhall be requifite in all those cafes, wherein by the confederation the affent of nine States is now required. Provided the confent of nine States to fuch admiffion may be obtained according to the eleventh of the articles of confederation. Until fuch admiffion, by their delegates, into Congrefs, any of the faid States, after the establishment of their temporary government, fhall have authority to keep a fitting member in Congress, with a right of debating, but not of voting. That the territory northward of the 45th degree, that is to fay, of the com pletion pletion of 45 degrees from the equator, end extending to the lake of the woods, fhall be called SYLVANIA. That of the territory under the 45th and 44th degrees, that which lies weftward of Lake Michigan, shall be calJed MICHIGANIA; aud that which is eastward the cof, within the peninfula formed by the lakes and waters of Michigan, Huron, St. Clair, and Erie, fhall be called CHERRONESUS and shall include any part of the peninfula which may extend above the 45th degree." Of the territory under the 43d and 42d degrees, that to the wellward, through which the Affenifipi, or Rock River,runs, shall be called ASSENISIPIA; and that to the weftward, in which are the fountains of Mulkingum, the two miamis of Ohio, the Wabafh, the Illinois, the miami of the lake, and Sandusky rivers, shall be called METROPOTAMIA. Of the territory which lies under the 41ft and 40th degrees, the weftern, through which the river Illinois runs, fhall be called ILLINOIA; that next adjoining to the eastward, SARATOGA; and that between this laft and Pennsylvania, and extending from the Ohio, to the lake Erie, fhall be called WASHINGTON. Of the territory which lies under the 39th and 38th degrees, to which fhall be added fo much of the point of land within the fork of the Ohio and Miffifippi as lies under the 37th degree, that to the weftward, within and adjacent to which are the confluences of the rivers Wabash, Shawanee, Taniffee, Ohio, Illinois, Miffifippi and Miffouri, fhall be called POLYPO-. TAMIA; and that to the eastward, farther up the Ohio, otherwife called the Pelifipi, fhall be calledPELISIPIA. That the preceding articles shall be formed into a Charter of Compact, fhall be duly executed by the Prefident of the United States in Congrefs affembled, under his hard, and the feal of the United States, fhall be promulgated, and hill ftand as fundamental Conftitutions between the thirteen original States, and thofe now newly defcribed, unalterable but by the joint confent of the United States in Congrefs affembled, and of the particular State within which much alteration is propofed to be ade. Commonwealth of Maffachusetts. A PROCLAMATION. W has fubfifted between fome of the citizens of the gate of New York and the people intrabiting the territory called the New Hampshire Grants, or flate of Vermont; and it being probable, from the prefent difpofition of the parties, that the fame controverfy may be recommenced to the cerned therein; and there being great great difliefs and calamity of all conreafon to fear that fome of the citizens of this Commonwealth, who live on the borders of the faid ftate of Vermont, may, by incautiouЛly intermeddling with the contention, involve themfelves and families in that distress which is at all times the confequence of civil diffentions, unlefs care is taken to prevent it: K k of the General Court, thought fit to JOHN HANCOCK. JOHN AVERY, jun. Secretary. Monthly Monthly Chronology for April, 1784 Foreign News. COPENHAGEN, December 16. THE HE new ifland which is formed near Iceland,increafes daily; there reigns a continual fermentation in the fea in thofe parts, which frequently throws up quantities both of land and rocks; which makes it imagined that this ifland may in a few years become large enough to make fome fettlements upon, as foon as the fires which exhale from it cease. A pealant of Suendfirup has lately found, as he was digging in his field, a coffin containing human bones, and a gold ring of the weight of 73 ducats. It is prefumed it was that of an ancient king of Denmark, named Suend, who gave his name to the village of Saendftrup. ROME, December 10. By letters from Naples, we are informed, that on the 15th and 16th of that month, feveral fhecks of an earthquake were felt in the Rouille, which did great damage, and fo terrified the inhabitants that they left their habitations, and paffed both the nights in the fields. NAPLES, November 26. Befides the earthquakes which have defolated Calabria, and which are still felt in fome parts, the unfortunate inhabitants of that province are vifited now with epidemic diforcers,originating from the firft difafters, and with all the mifery and indigence which Daturally follow. General Pignatelly has orders to repair thither, in order to give affiftance, and maintain that regularity which is neceffary in times of public calamity,. HAMBURGH, December 7. We read in feveral Gazettes belong. ing to the empire, that a part of the troops of Helle Caffel, which were in the English fervice during the laft war, Lave returned from America, viz. 5.311 men, out of 12,000. But this calculation, it is faid,is not juft. Twelve thoufand Heffians briginally paffed over to America; but for fix or feven years others were fent over to recruit them, which may be fet down at 2000per annum. To the original 12,000. therefore, we must add 12 or 14,000 more; the whole of which either have not returned, or exift no longer, or people the lands of America. PARIS, Nov. 4. Yefterday, at the cafle of Muette, the following experiment was made npon the areoftatic machine of M. de Montgolfier. In fome parts the fky was covered with clouds, in others it was clear the wind was at N. W. At eight minutes after noon a rocket was fired, as a fignal that the filling of the machine was begun. In eight minutes it was fully extended and ready, to rife M. the Marquis d'Arlande and M. Pilatre de Rofier being in the gallery. The defign, at firft, was to raife the machine, but to hold it by a rope, in order to ascertain the exaЯ weight it would carry, and know if every thing were properly difpofed for the important experiment that was about to be made; but the machine, driven by the wind, infead of rifing vertically, took its courfe along one of the alleys of the garden, and the cords which reftrained it acting too forcibly, occafioned many.rents, one of which was more than fix feet long. The machine upon this was brought back to the alcove, and was repaired in |