The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Հատոր 6

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N. Hale and Gray & Bowen, 1830

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Էջ 491 - 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...
Էջ 195 - 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.
Էջ 328 - I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me the 4th instant, as also those which accompanied it.
Էջ 491 - It is agreed that the people of the United 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.
Էջ 125 - SIR, I have received the letter, which your Excellency did me the honor of addressing to me by the hand of Mr.
Էջ 483 - They will all wish to make of us a make-weight candle, when they are weighing out their pounds. Indeed, it is not surprising; for we shall very often, if not always, be able to turn the scale. But I think it ought to be our rule not to meddle; and that of all the powers of Europe, not to desire us, or, perhaps, even to permit us, to interfere, if they can help it.
Էջ 197 - I have the honor to enclose to your Excellency a copy of a letter, which Lady Asgill has just written me.
Էջ 195 - Congress do, with pleasure, accept his Most Christian Majesty's interposition, and will transmit further powers to their Minister at the Hague, to form a treaty of alliance between his Most Christian Majesty, the United Provinces, and the United States, having for its object, and limited in its duration, to the present war with Great Britain.
Էջ 484 - The boundary they did not approve; they thought it too extended, too vast a country, but they would not make a difficulty. That if these terms were not admitted, the whole affair must be thrown into Parliament, where every man would be for insisting on restitution to the refugees. He talked about excepting a few, by name, of the most obnoxious of the refugees. I could not help observing that the ideas respecting the fishery appeared to me to come piping hot from Versailles.
Էջ 197 - Hartley, esq. on whom we have therefore conferred the rank of our minister plenipotentiary, have nominated, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do nominate, constitute and appoint him our true, certain; and undoubted commissioner, procurator, and plenipotentiary ; giving and granting to him all and all manner of faculty, power and authority, together with...