No further confifcations or profecutions. fifcation. And it is agreed, that all perfons who have any intereft in confiscated lands, either by debts, marriage fettlements, or other. wife, fhall meet with no lawful impediment in the profecution of their just rights.. ARTICLE VI. That there fhall be no future confifcations made, nor any profecutions commenced against any perfon or perfons for, or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the prefent war; and that no perfon fhall on that account, fuffer any future lofs or damage, either in his perfon, liberty or property, and that thofe who may be in confinement on fuch charges, at the time of the ratification of the treaty in America, fhall be immediately fet at liberty, and the profecutions fo commenced be discontinued. ARTICLE VII. There fhall be a firm and perpetual peace between his Britannic Majefty and the faid States, and between the subjects of the one Hoftilities, and the citizens of the other, wherefore all to cease, & hoftilities both by fea and land fhall then immies to be mediately ceafe: all prifoners on both fides withdrawn. fhall be fet at liberty, and his Britannic Ma British ar jefty fhall with all convenient speed, and without caufing any deftruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrifons and fleets from the faid United States, and from every port, place and harbour within the fame; leaving in all fortifications the American artillery that may be therein; and fhall also order and caufe all archives, records, deeds and papers, belonging to any of the faid ftates, or their citizens, which in the courfe of the war may have fallen into the hands of his officers, to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper ftates and perfons to whom they belong. ARTICLE VIII. The navigation of the river Miffifippi, from Navigation its fource to the ocean, fhall for ever remain of the Miffree and open to the fubjects of Great-Britain, hippito be and the citizens of the United States. ARTICLE IX. free to both nations. before ar In cafe it fhould fo happen that any place or territory belonging to Great-Britain or to Conquefts the United States, fhould be conquered by rival of the arms of either from the other, before the thefe artiarrival of thefe articles in America, it is agreed, merica to that the fame fhall be restored without difficul- bereftored. ty, and without requiring any compenfation. DONE at PARIS, the thirtieth day of No- RICHARD OSWALD, (L. S.)/ cles in A ORIGINAL. DEFINITIVE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND, HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY. In the Name of the Moft Holy and Undivided Trinity. T having pleased the Divine Providence to most potent Prince GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God King of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Arch-Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Em pire, &c. and of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, to forget all paft misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correfpondence and friendfhip which they mutually wish to reffore; and to establish such a beneficial and fatisfactory intercourse between the two countries, upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience, as may promote and fecure to both perpetual peace and harmony: And having for this defirable end, already laid the foundation of peace and reconciliation, by the provifional articles, figned at Paris, on the thirtieth of November, one thousand fever hundred and eighty-two, by the commiffioners empowered on each part, which articles were agreed to be inferted in, and to conftitute the treaty of peace propofed to be concluded between the crown of Great-Britain and the faid United States, but which treaty was not to be concluded until terms of peace fhould be agreed upon between GreatBritain and France, and his Britannic Majesty fhould be ready to conclude fuch treaty_accordingly; and the treaty between Great-Britain and France, having fince been concluded, his Britannic Majefty and the United States of America, in order to carry into full effect the provifional articles abovementioned, according to the tenor thereof, have conftituted and appointed, that is to fay, His Britannic Majesty on his part, David Hartley, Efquire, Member of the Parliament of Great-Britain; and the faid United States on their part, John Adams, Efquire, late a Commiffioner of the United States of America at the Court of Verfailles, late Delegate in Congrefs from the state of Maflachusetts, and Chief Juftice of the faid ftate, and Minifter Plenipotentiary of the faid United States to their High Mightineffes the States General of the United Netherlands; Benjamin Franklin, Efquire, late Delegate in Congrefs from the state of Pennsylvania, Prefident of the Convention of the said state, and Minifter Plenipotentiary from the United States of America at the Court of Versailles; John Jay, Efquire, late Prefident of Congrefs, and Chief Justice of the ftate of New-York, and Minifter Plenipotentiary from the faid United States at the Court of Madrid, to be the Plenipotentiaries for the concluding and |