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... interests as well as of affections , that must attend the measures commenced while I was in England , had been attended to , and the horrid mischief of this abomi- nable war been thereby prevented . I should still be happy in any ...
... interests as well as of affections , that must attend the measures commenced while I was in England , had been attended to , and the horrid mischief of this abomi- nable war been thereby prevented . I should still be happy in any ...
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... interest and with- out the previous intention of either . Such a treaty we might probably now make with the approbation of our friends ; but if you go to war with them on account of their friendship for us , we are bound by ties ...
... interest and with- out the previous intention of either . Such a treaty we might probably now make with the approbation of our friends ; but if you go to war with them on account of their friendship for us , we are bound by ties ...
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... interest , weigh but little with me , when I consider the steady friendship of France to the thirteen United States of Switzerland , which has now continued inviolate two hundred years . You tell me that she will certainly cheat us ...
... interest , weigh but little with me , when I consider the steady friendship of France to the thirteen United States of Switzerland , which has now continued inviolate two hundred years . You tell me that she will certainly cheat us ...
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... interest of France ; because their interest leads them to go to a certain point , and no further . There is a disparity in the operation of the terms of the alliance on the part of France , and on the part of America . The more ...
... interest of France ; because their interest leads them to go to a certain point , and no further . There is a disparity in the operation of the terms of the alliance on the part of France , and on the part of America . The more ...
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... interests , jealousies , and points of honor . I am not sure whether the extreme caution and diffidence of per- sons in political life , be not the cause almost as frequently of the unnecessary protraction of the miseries of war , as ...
... interests , jealousies , and points of honor . I am not sure whether the extreme caution and diffidence of per- sons in political life , be not the cause almost as frequently of the unnecessary protraction of the miseries of war , as ...
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acquainted act of parliament Adams affairs agreed alliance allies answer appears assured Britain Britannic Majesty British commission commissioners communicate Comte de Vergennes Congress consent conversation copy courier court DAVID HARTLEY DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR declared desire discharge disposition enclosed endeavours enemies England esteem expected express farther favor Fayette France FRANKLIN give Grenville HENRY LAURENS Holland hope house of Bourbon humble servant independence informed intended JOHN ADAMS king late ministry letter liberty London Lord Cornwallis Lord North Lord Shelburne Lordship Majesty Marquis ministers nation obedient obliged obtained occasion offer opinion Ostend paper Paris parliament parole parties Passy persons plenipotentiary present prisoners proposed propositions reason received reconciliation respect RICHARD OSWALD Secretary sent sentiments separate peace separate treaty sincere Spain suppose thing thought tion to-morrow told treat of peace truce United Versailles wish wrote
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Page 279 - East, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid Highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 279 - Superior ; thence through lake Superior northward of the isles 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-western point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi...
Page 288 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 279 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 281 - 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.
Page 280 - ... all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America ; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled...
Page 288 - ... to the middle of the river Apalachicola or Catahouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; thence straight to the head of St Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.
Page 280 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 289 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 306 - ... is necessary to be taken from them for the use of such armed force, the same shall be paid for at a reasonable price.