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... obtain for us permission to send a commis- sary , possibly you may find a trusty , humane , discreet person at Plymouth , and another at Portsmouth , who would under- take to communicate what relief we may be able to afford those ...
... obtain for us permission to send a commis- sary , possibly you may find a trusty , humane , discreet person at Plymouth , and another at Portsmouth , who would under- take to communicate what relief we may be able to afford those ...
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... obtain by drop- ping all your pretensions to govern us : and by your superior skill in buckstering negociation , you may possibly make such an apparently advantageous bargain as shall be applauded in your parliament ; but you cannot ...
... obtain by drop- ping all your pretensions to govern us : and by your superior skill in buckstering negociation , you may possibly make such an apparently advantageous bargain as shall be applauded in your parliament ; but you cannot ...
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... come over here imme- diately with powers to treat , you might not only obtain peace with America , but prevent a war with France . 1 Dr. Shipley . To MR . HUTTON . Passy , March 24 , 12 PART III . PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
... come over here imme- diately with powers to treat , you might not only obtain peace with America , but prevent a war with France . 1 Dr. Shipley . To MR . HUTTON . Passy , March 24 , 12 PART III . PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
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... obtaining it , in my opinion , are to acknowledge the independence of the United States , and then enter at once into a treaty with us for a suspension of arms , with the usual provisions relating to distances ; and another for ...
... obtaining it , in my opinion , are to acknowledge the independence of the United States , and then enter at once into a treaty with us for a suspension of arms , with the usual provisions relating to distances ; and another for ...
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... obtain peace , grant some superior advantages in trade to Britain , and enter into an alliance offensive and defensive ; whether , if war should be declared against France , we had obliged ourselves by treaty to join with her against ...
... obtain peace , grant some superior advantages in trade to Britain , and enter into an alliance offensive and defensive ; whether , if war should be declared against France , we had obliged ourselves by treaty to join with her against ...
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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.