The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D, F.R.S., &c. Minister Plenipontentiary from the United States of America at the Court of France, and for the Treaty of Peace and Independence with Great Britain, &c. &c: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790, Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations, Volume 2Henry Colburn, 1817 |
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... sentiments of good will to both countries , and earnest desires of prevent- ing their ruin and promoting their mutual felicity , I have been apprehensive that if it were known a correspondence subsisted between us , it might be attended ...
... sentiments of good will to both countries , and earnest desires of prevent- ing their ruin and promoting their mutual felicity , I have been apprehensive that if it were known a correspondence subsisted between us , it might be attended ...
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... sentiments , and the popular public rejoicings on oc- casion of any news news of the slaughter of an innocent and vir- tuous people fighting only in defence of their just rights ; these , together with the recommendations of the same ...
... sentiments , and the popular public rejoicings on oc- casion of any news news of the slaughter of an innocent and vir- tuous people fighting only in defence of their just rights ; these , together with the recommendations of the same ...
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... sentiments , though they serve no other purpose.swied 209 ] ! I T " To D. HARTLEY , Esq . M. P. ༣ . DEAR SIR , > Passy , Feb. 26 , 1778 . I received yours of the 18th and 20th of this month , with Lord North's proposed bills . The more ...
... sentiments , though they serve no other purpose.swied 209 ] ! I T " To D. HARTLEY , Esq . M. P. ༣ . DEAR SIR , > Passy , Feb. 26 , 1778 . I received yours of the 18th and 20th of this month , with Lord North's proposed bills . The more ...
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... sentiments , that I DID NOT approve of them , and that I was sure they wOULD NOT be accepted in America . But I said there are two other Commissioners here . I will , if you please , show your propositions to them , and you will hear ...
... sentiments , that I DID NOT approve of them , and that I was sure they wOULD NOT be accepted in America . But I said there are two other Commissioners here . I will , if you please , show your propositions to them , and you will hear ...
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... sentiments of the terms which might probably be acceptable if offered ; whether America would not , to obtain peace , grant some superior advantages in trade to Britain , and enter into an alliance offensive and defensive ; whether , if ...
... sentiments of the terms which might probably be acceptable if offered ; whether America would not , to obtain peace , grant some superior advantages in trade to Britain , and enter into an alliance offensive and defensive ; whether , if ...
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acquainted act of parliament Adams affairs aforesaid agreed allies answer appear assured Britain Britannic Majesty British commerce commission commissioners communicate Comte de Vergennes Congress considered conversation copy courier court DAVID HARTLEY DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR declared desire discharge disposition endeavour enemies England esteem Excellency expected express farther favour France FRANKLIN give Grenville HENRY LAURENS Holland honour hope house of Bourbon humble servant inclosed independence informed JOHN ADAMS King late ministry letter liberty London Lord Cornwallis Lord North Lord Shelburne Lordship Majesty's Marquis mentioned ministers nation North America Nova Scotia obedient obliged obtain offer opinion paper Paris parliament parole parties Passy persons plenipotentiary present prisoners proposed proposition reason received reconciliation respect RICHARD OSWALD Secretary sent sentiments ships sincere Spain suppose thing thought tion told treat of peace truce United Versailles wish write
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Page 303 - States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that Island), and also on the coasts, bays and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's Dominions in America...
Page 312 - 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 303 - 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 Northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due West course to the River Mississippi, thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said River Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of North latitude...
Page 304 - 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; 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 303 - Comprehending all Islands within Twenty Leagues of any Part of the Shores of the United States, and lying between Lines to be drawn due East from the Points where the aforesaid Boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one Part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such Islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the Limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.
Page 305 - Liberty, and his Britannic Majesty shall with all convenient speed and without causing any Destruction, or carrying away any Negroes, or other Property of the American Inhabitants, withdraw all his Armies, Garrisons and Fleets from the said United States, and from every Post place and Harbour within the same...
Page 302 - 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...
Page 71 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Page 303 - 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 305 - 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.