empty themselves into the river St. Laurence, from recommend it to the legislatures of the respective those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the states, to provide for the restitution of all estates north-westernmost head of Connecticut river; rights, and properties, which have been confisthence down along the middle of that river to the cated, belonging to real British subjects; and also forty-fifth degree of north latitude; from thence of the estates, rights, and properties, of persons by a line due west on said latitude, until it strikes resident in districts in the possession of his mathe river Irroquois or Caatraquy; thence along jesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the middle of said river into lake Ontario; through the said United States; and that persons of any the middle of said lake until it strikes the commu- other description shall have free liberty to go to nication by water between that lake and lake any part or parts of any of the thirteen United Erie; thence along the middle of the said commu- States, and therein to remain twelve months unnication into lake Erie, through the middle of said molested in their endeavors to obtain the restitulake, until it arrives at the water communication tion of such of their estates, rights, and properties, between that lake and lake Huron; thence through as may have been confiscated; and that congress the middle of said lake to the water communica- shall also earnestly recommend to the several tion between that lake and lake Superior; thence states a reconsideration and revision of all acts or through lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal laws regarding the premises, so as to render the and Philapeaux to the Long Lake; thence through said laws or acts perfectly consistent not only with the middle of said Long Lake and the water com-justice and equity, but with that spirit of concilimunication between it and the lake of the Woods, ation which on the return of the blessings of to the said lake of the Woods; thence through the peace should universally prevail: and that consaid lake to the most north-westernmost point gress shall also earnestly recommend to the sevthereof, and from thence on a due west course to eral states, that the estates, rights, and properties, the river Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn of such last mentioned persons shall be restored along the middle of the said river Mississippi until to them, they refunding to any persons who may it shall intersect the northernmost part of the be now in possession the bona fide price (where thirty-first degree of north latitude. South, by a any has been given), which such persons may line to be drawn due east from the determination have paid on purchasing any of the said lands, of the line last mentioned in the latitude of thirty-rights, or properties, since the confiscation. one degrees north of the equator, to the middle of the river Apalachiola 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. 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. Laurence, 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 At-peace between his Britannic majesty and the said lantic Ocean, excepting such islands as now are or heretofore have been within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia. And it is agreed that all persons who have any interest in confiscated lands, either by debts, marriage settlements, or otherwise, shall meet with no lawful impediment in the prosecution of their just rights. Art. VI. That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war; and that no person shall on that account suffer any future loss or damage either in his person, liberty, or property, and that those who may be in confinement on such charges at the time of the ratification of the treaty in America, shall be immediately set at liberty, and the prosecutions so commenced be discontinued. Art. VII. There shall be a firm and perpetual United States, and between the subjects of the one and the citizens of the other; wherefore all hostilities both by sea and land shall from henceforth cease; all prisoners on both sides shall be set at 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 harbor, within the same; leaving in all fortifications the American artillery that may be therein; and shall also order and cause all archives, records, deeds, and 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. Art. III. 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 Great Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland; also in the gulf of St. Laurence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the inhabitants of the United 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; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbors, and creeks Art. VIII. The navigation of the river Missisof Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands and Labrador, sippi, from its source to the ocean, shall for ever so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but remain free and open to the subjects of Great so soon as the same or either of them shall be set-Britain and the citizens of the United States. tled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen Art. IX. In case it should so happen that any to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground. Art. IV. It is agreed that the creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted. Art. V. It is agreed that congress shall earnestly place or territory belonging to Great Britain or to the United States, should have been conquered by the arms of either from the other, before the arri val of the said provisional articles in America, it is agreed that the same shall be restored without difficulty, and without requiring any compensation. Art. X. The solemn ratification of the present treaty, expedited in good and due form, shall be DAVID HARTLEY. JOHN ADAMS. Note C, p. 547. (L. S.) exchanged between the contracting parties in the before the British infantry could come up. For space of six months, or sooner, if possible, to be his unremitting activity in these operations, he computed from the day of the signature of the was thanked by general Braithwaite and by the present treaty. In witness whereof we the under- governor general in council. In the Mahratta signed, their ministers plenipotentiary, have, in war, lieutenant-colonel Wellesley, then a majortheir name, and in virtue of our full powers, signed general by brevet, was appointed to command a with our hands the present definitive treaty, and body of troops, which was detached to protect caused the seals of our arms to be affixed thereto. Poonah, the capital of the Peishwah, a British ally, Done at Paris, this third day of September, in against Schindeah and Holkar. General Wellesthe year of our Lord one thousand seven ley at the head of twelve thousand men, having hundred and eighty-three. heard that Holkar was in possession of Poonah and of the person of the Peishwah, and had determined to burn that capital on the approach of the British army, pushed forward over a difficult country and through a dangerous pass, by a forced march of sixty miles in thirty-two hours; the unexampled celerity of this movement saved Poonah SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY was fifth son of the from destruction. After taking the fortress of Arearl of Mornington, in Ireland, and was born in neduagar, Sir Arthur finding the combined MahDublin in May, 1769. He was at an early age ratta army within six miles of his position, but destined to the military profession, having been breaking up camp to retreat, he boldly resolved to educated at the military academy of Angers in force the enemy to a general action, although colFrance; fortunately his genius seconded his early onel Stephenson's subsidiary division had not yet predilection, and he acquired a thorough know- come up. There he achieved the victory of Assye ledge of the theory of the art of war. He obtained with a force of four thousand five hundred men, the rank of a field-officer before he had an oppor- of whom only two thousand were Europeans, over tunity of distinguishing himself, which did not Schindeah's army composed of fifty thousand men, occur till the year 1794, when he displayed mili- and one hundred and ninety pieces of ordnance, tary talents in conducting the retreat of three of whom twelve hundred were killed, the woundBritish battalions, part of the army under the com-ed covered the country for many miles, and ninemand of the duke of York, by Bois le duc and ty-eight pieces of cannon, all the camp equipages, Arnheim. Sir Arthur Wellesley having been ap- bullocks and camels of the enemy, with a vast pointed lieutenant-colonel of the thirty-third regi- quantity of ammunition, fell into the hands of the ment, accompanied that corps to India, soon after victor. his eldest brother Richard, then earl of Morning- General Wellesley then pursued, overtook, and ton, had been appointed governor general of Ben- defeated the army of the rajah of Berar, on the gal. On the arrival of his regiment in India, he plain of Agram, as decisively as he had defeated embarked with it on an expedition then intended that of Schindeah's at Assye, and having taken against Manilla, but was recalled and relanded to his only remaining, but almost impregnable fortcheck the aggression of Tippoo Sultan, through|ress, Gawilghar, by escalade, both the rajah of the intrigues of the French under Buonaparte, Berar and Schindeah sued for peace, which was who was then in Egypt. In the Madras army concluded by Sir Arthur with a celerity and skill, destined against Tippoo Sultan, Sir Arthur com- which proved that he possesses talents for the manded the subsidiary forces of the Nizam, and cabinet as well as for the field. at the storm of Seringapatam he commanded the Having returned to Europe, Sir Arthur comreserve during the ever memorable assault; for manded a brigade in the army which, under the his intrepidity on that occasion he was thanked in command of lord Cathcart, invested Copenhagen, public orders, was appointed commissioner for the and removed the Danish navy from the grasp of division of prize-treasure taken in Seringa patam, Buonaparte. Soon afterwards he was appointed, and governor of that conquered capital; for his on the decease of marquis Cornwallis, to be colconduct in that arduous employment, he received onel of the thirty-third regiment, in which he had the thanks of the governor general in council. served thirteen years as lieutenant-colonel; with Soon afterwards he was intrusted with the com- this high and well-earned fame, general Sir Armand of an expedition against Dhondia Waugh, a thur Wellesley assumed the command of the alfreebooter, who, with a large force, had commit- lied forces in Portugal and Spain, where, and on ted many excesses on the British possessions; him, both the extremities of France itself, he succesSir Arthur, by a series of rapid movements, inter-sively baffled her much vaunted generals and cepted at Conaghuill, and defeated and slew by a marshals, and finally defeated and dethroned her vigorous and intrepid attack with cavalry only, spurious emperor Napoleon. A. Abbot, Charles, Esq. elected speaker, 482. Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, noticed, 410. His success, 416. -, colonel, his sortie, 289. Abolition of the slave trade, 525. Ackland, major, attacked, wounded, and taken pris- Acquisitions in St. Domingo, 402. of Warren Hastings, 407. promised, 405. Campaign in, 579. Negotiations Acre, siege of, its gallant defence, 454. Its siege rais-Amherst, Sir Jeffery, noticed, 137. Acts of Insolvency passed, 14. For registering parish Actions, on the Brandywine, 193. Between a British Address of lords and commons on occasion of first Admiralty, board of, its misconduct, 294. Aids, to commerce, 385. From France to America, 287. Air, archbishop of, president of the national assem- Alarming scarcity of provisions, results, 105. Albuera, battle of, 563. Ale, additional duty on, 14. Alexander I. emperor of Russia, succeeds his father, 474. Visits England, 587. lord, called on for his opinion by lord Chat- ham, 211. Anderson, major, killed, 282. Anholt, isle, its gallant defence, 554. Arnold, colonel, noticed, 155. Wounded at Quebec, Arrests of public orators, 625. Arrears claimed by prince of Wales, 481. Ash, general, surprised, 238. Athol, duke and duchess of, noticed, 90. Attempt to destroy British vessels in America, 175. Auckland, lord, letter to states, 383. Censure on his Augsburg, congress at, 18. Alexandria, battle of, 475. Capitulates, 522. Attack Augmentation of land tax, 161. Of army and navy, Algiers, expedition against, 607. Allen, colonel, noticed, 155. Alliance between France and America, 213. Allied powers, measures of, 596. Alliances, continental, remarks on, 35. Allies, their victory at Graebenstein, 45. Allied army withdrawn from France, 617. 394. Of British forces, 396. Augusta, princess royal of England, proposed to mar- Austin, Sophia, noticed, 572. Austerlitz, battle of, 506. Enter Austria makes peace with France, 468. Declares war Allotment of American land, granted officers and sol- Allowances to prince regent, 566. To princesses, ib. Ambassador, Spanish, unsatisfactory explanation of, America, North, disturbances n, 98. Is situation, | Babes "in the wood," 441. B. Baillie, colonel, defeated at Perimbancum, 271. Sir James, surprises Americans, 226. Barclay, David, noticed, 145. His plan of union be Barré, colonel, his eulogium on lord Chatham, 216. -, lord, his motion to expel Wilkes, 121. Battle of Stillwater, 202. Of Guildford, 281. Baylis, Mr. his escape, 301. Baylor, lieutenant-colonel, noticed, 225. His party Bantry Bay, mutiny in, 483. Beauharnois, Eugene, married, 520. Beckford, lord mayor, presents city remonstrance to the Bellingham, shoots Perceval; tried and executed, 567. Bradstreet, colonel, advances against American sav- Brandt, count, noticed, 137. Bradley, Mr. and party taken prisoners, 201. Brazils, royal family of Portugal emigrate to, 528. Bridewell, New, burnt, 255. Bristol, earl of, ambassador to Madrid, 30. Orders Britain aids Portugal, 46. Attempts negotiation with Briton, North, paper, published, 72. Burnt by hang. man, 76. British, repulsed at Fort Schuyler, 200. Commission- 539. Brown, major, noticed, 158. His gallant death, ib. Brunswick, prince of, marries princess Augusta, 78. Brush, Crean, Esq. noticed, 164. Bryan, colonel, his party dispersed, 260. Budget, 539, 560, 568. Buenos Ayres, failure of expedition against, 55. Un- Buford, colonel, defeated, 258. Bulow, general, visits England, 587. Buonaparte, Napoleon, noticed, 393. His conduct, 410. Lucien, president, noticed, 461. Louis, noticed, 498. Elected king of Hol- Jerome, his ship stranded, 516. Made -, Joseph, signs treaty of peace, 478. Made Burgoyne, general, noticed, 48. Penetrates into Spain, Burke, his picture of Pitt's administration, 104. His Burrard, Sir Harry, arrives in Portugal; his conduct, 531. Bute, earl of, added to privy-council, 12. Resigns Burar, battle of, 95. Byland, count, his squadron taken, 270. C. Cabinet, changes in the, 62, 102. Changes in minis- Cadwallader, general, noticed, 181. Calabria, cardinal Ruffo heads army in, 457. Camden, lord, noticed, 90. Made lord chancellor, 104, Campaign in Germany, vicissitudes of, 17. Of Bour- |