sally prevail: and that congress shall also earnest. ly recommend to the several states, that the estates, rights, and properties, of such last mentioned persons shall be restored to them, they refunding to any persons who may be now in possession the bona fide price (where any has been given), which such persons may have paid on purchasing any of the said lands, rights, or properties, since the confiscation. And it is agreed that all persons who have any interest in confiscated lands, either by debts, mar riage 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 acperson, 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. said latitude, until it strikes the river Irroquois or Caatraquy; thence along the middle of said river into lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and lake Erie; thence along the middle of the said communication into lake Erie, through the middle of said lake, until it arrives at the water communication between that lake aud lake Huron; thence through the middle of said lake to the water communication between that lake and lake Superior; thence through lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Philapeaux 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-westernmost 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 north-count suffer any future loss or damage either in his ernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. South, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned in the latitude of thirty-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 is. lands 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. Art. VII. There shall be a firm and perpetual peace between his Britannic majesty and the said 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 har bour, 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. VIII. The navigation of the river Missis sippi, from its source to the ocean, shall for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States. 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 Newfoundlar d; also in the gulf of St. Laurence, and at all other places in the sea where the inhabitants of both Art. IX. In case it should so happen that any countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And place or territory belonging to Great Britain or to also that the inhabitants of the United States shall the United States, should have been conquered by have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part the arms of either from the other, before the ar of the coast of Newfoundland as British fisher-rival of the said provisional articles in America, it men shall use, (but not to dry or cure the same on is agreed that the same shall be restored without that island,) and also on the coasts, bays, and difficulty, and without requiring any compensation. 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, 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. 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 recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects; and also of the estates, rights, and properties, of persons resident in districts in the possession of his majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States; and that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months unmolested in their endeavours to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights, and properties, as may have been confiscated; and that congress shall also earnestly recommend to the several states a reconsideration and revision of all acts or laws regarding the premises, so as to render the said laws or acts perfectly consistent not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which on the return of the blessings of peace should univer Art. X. The solemn ratifications of the present treaty, expedited in good and due form, shall be exchanged between the contracting parties in the space of six months, or sooner, if possible, to be computed from the day of the signature of the pres ert treaty. In witness whereof we the undersigned, their ministers plenipotentiary, have, in their name, and in virtue of our full powers, signed with our hands the present definitive treaty, and caused the seals of our arms to be affixed thereto. Done at Paris, this third day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. DAVID HARTLEY. Note C, p. 341. (L. S.) SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY was fifth son of the earl of Mornington, in Ireland, and was born in Dublin in May, 1769. He was at an early age destined to the military profession, having been educated at the military academy of Angers in France; fortunately his genius seconded his early predilec tion, and he acquired a thorough knowledge of the theory of the art of war. He obtained the rank of a field-officer before he had an opportunity of dis tinguishing himself, which did not occur till the year 1794, when he displayed military talents in conducting the retreat of three British battalions, part of the army under the command of the duke of York, by Bois le duc and Arnheim. Sir Arthur Wellesley having been appointed lieutenant-colonel of the thirty-third regiment, accompanied that corps to India, soon after his eldest brother Richard, then earl of Mornington, had been appointed governor general of Bengal. On the arrival of his regiment in India, he embarked with it on an expedition then intended against Manilla, but was recalled and re-landed to check the aggressions of Tippoo Sultan, through the intrigues of the French under Buonaparte, who was then in Egypt. In the Madras army destined against Tippoo Sultan, Sir Arthur commanded the subsidiary forces of the Nizam, and at the storm of Seringapatam he commanded the reserve during the ever memorable assault; for his intrepidity on that occasion he was thanked in public orders, was appointed commissioner for the division of prize-treasure taken in Seringapatam, and governor of that conquered capital; for his conduct in that arduous employment, he received the thanks of the gover Lor general in council. Soon afterwards he was intrusted with the command of an expedition against Dhondia Waugh, a freebooter, who, with a large force, had committed many excesses on the British possessions; him, Sir Arthur, by a series of rapid movements, intercepted at Conaghuill, and defeated and slew by a vigorous and intrepid attack with cavalry only, before the British infantry could come up. For his unremitting activity in these operations, he was thanked by general Braithwaite and by the governor general in council. In the Mahratta war, lieutenant-colonel Wellesley, then a major-general by brevet, was appointed to command a body of troops, which was detached to protect Poonah, the capital of the Peishwah, a British ally, against Schindeah and Holkar. General Wellesley at the head of twelve thousand men, having 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 from destruction. After taking the fortress of Arneduagai, Sir Arthur finding the combined Mahratta army within six miles of his position, but breaking up camp to retreat, he boldly resolved to force the enemy to a general action, although colonel Stephenson's subsidiary division had not yet come up. There he achieved the victory of Assye with a force of four thousand five hundred men, of whom only two thousand were Europeans, over Schindeah's army composed of fifty thousand men, and one hundred and ninety pieces of ordnance, of whom twelve hundred were killed, the wounded covered the country for many miles, and ninety-eight pieces of cannon, all the camp equipages, bullocks and camels of the enemy, with a vast quantity of ammunition, fell into the hands of the victor. General Wellesley then pursued, overtook, and defeated the army of the rajah of Berar, on the plain of Agram, as decisively as he had defeated that of Schindeah's at Assye, and having taken his only remaining, but almost impregnable fortress, Gawilghar, by escalade, both the rajah of Berar and Schindeah sued for peace, which was concluded by Sir Arthur with a celerity and skill, which proved that he possesses talents for the cabinet as well as for the field. Having returned to Europe, Sir Arthur commanded a brigade in the army which, under the command of lord Cathcart, invested Copenhagen, and removed the Danish navy from the grasp of Buonaparte. Soon afterwards he was appointed, on the decease of marquis Cornwallis, to be colonel of the thirty-third regiment, in which he had served thirteen years as lieutenant-colonel; with this high and well-earned fame, general Sir Arthur Wellesley assumed the command of the allied forces in Portugal and Spain, where, and on both the extremities of France itself, he successively baffled her much vaunted generals and marshals, and finally defeated and dethroned her spurious emperor Napoleon. THE END. GLASGOW: ANDREW & JOHN M. DUNCAN, Printers to the University. INDEX ΤΟ MILLER'S REIGN OF GEORGE III. Acquisition in St. Domingo, 249. Acts, of Insolvency passed, 3. For registering parish Mr. noticed, 68. Address of lords and commons on occasion of first Admiralty, board of, its misconduct, 180. Affairs of Europe, survey of, 36. Of Ireland, 139, 182. Aggrandizement of Hanover, favourite scheme of Aids, to commerce, 237. From France to America, Aitken, John, (the painter,) 113. Confesses his guilt; Air, archbishop of, president of the national assembly, 221. Alliances, continental, remarks on, 17. Allowances to Prince Regent, 353. To princesses, Altercation in house of peers, 79. Amadeus, Victor, king of Sardinia, dies; succeeded Ambassador, Spanish, unsatisfactory explanation of, Amelia, princess, death of, 348. American, North, compensation, 3. Assemblies re- lord, called on for his opinion by lord Anderson, major, killed, 172. Andre, major, noticed, 161. Taken, and executed as Anholt, isle, its gallant defence, 346. Anson, lord, noticed, 32. Antwerp, council at, 239. Arcond, his floating batteries, 184. Armament against Havannah, 26. Arnold, colonel, noticed, 92. Wounded at Quebec, tion, 161. Attempts to seduce the Americans, 163. Articles, thirty-nine, the, petition against rejected, Asghans, noticed, 56. Ash, general, surprised, 145. Assignats, French, issued by, 224. Associations, against republicans, &c. 225. Against the war, 150. Volunteer, 268. Assurances of effectual support from house of com- Athol, duke and duchess of, noticed, 51. Atlee, colonel, noticed, 105. Attack on Jersey, 167. Allies, their victory at Graebenstein, 22. Enter Attempt to destroy British vessels in America, 105. France, 363. Advance of, 375. Allied army withdrawn from France, 385. Allotment of American land granted officers and sol- diers, 47. On Rhode Island, 135; failure of it, ib. To ai 3 N Babes in the wood," 274. Badajos, capture of, 352. B Baillie, colonel, taken prisoner, 155. Baird, Sir David, his conduct at the Cape, 322. Sir I. surprises Americans 136. Baker, W. noticed, 191. Balte, printer of North Briton, 42. Baltimore, attack on, 371. Ballet for militia produces riot at Hexham, 3. Barclay, David, noticed, 86. His plan of union be. Barre, colonel, his eulogium on lord Chatnam, 130. lord, his motion to expel Wilkes, 71. Basque Road, attempt to burn British fleet at anchor Bathurst, judge, appointed chancellor, 76. Battle of Stillwater, 121. Of Guildford, 171. surprised and massacred, 136. Wounded, ib., Baylis, Mr. his escape, 184. Baylor, lieutenant colonel, noticed, 135. His party Bangalore stormed, 219. Bantry Bay, meeting in, 300. Beauharnois, Eugene, married, 324. Bedford, duke of, sets off to Paris, 32. Beckford, lord mayor, presents city remonstrance to Bellingham, shoots Percival; tried and executed, 354. Bengal, its conquest, 54. Bernadotte, prince of Ponte Corvo, elected successor Bernard, Sir Francis, noticed, 67. Beresford, general, noticed, 351. Wounded, 353. lord, noticed, 367. Bills, for militia amendments, 20. For restraining Birmingham, disgraceful riots at, 214. Rioters tried Birth of prince of Wales, 28. Of princess Char- Blucher visits England, 367 Blunt, Mr. sheriff, noticed, 45. Bonquet, colonel, notice of, 48. His campaign and Boston, proceedings at, noticed, 56. Further parti Bougainville, the navigator, noticed, 78 Bouille, marquis de, captures St. Eustatia, 177. Isle of, capitulates, 340. Boussel, Mounsieur, his opinion, 178. Bradstreet, colonel, advances against America. Brandt, count, noticed, 81. Bradley, Mr. and party taken prisoners, 158. Breton, Cape, Isle of, ceded to Britain, 34. Bridewell, New, burnt, 155 Retreats, Bristol, earl of, ambassador to Madrid, 14. Orders Britain aids Portugal, 23. Attempts negociation Briton, North, paper, published, 40. Burnt by Britisk, repulsed at Fort Schuyler, 120. Com Brock, general, noticed. 356. His gallant death, ib. Brokerage of offices in army, church, or state, penal, Brown, major, noticed, 94 Brunswick, prince of, marries princess Augusta, 44. Duke of, bis celebrated manifesto, 233. Oels, duke of, his Brush, Crean, Esq. noticed, 98. Bryan, colonel, his party dispersed, 158. Buckeburg, count de la Lippe, noticed, 24. Buenos Aures, failure of expedition against, 29. Buford, colonel, defeated, 157. Bulow, general, visits England, 367 Bullion question, 345. Report on it, 348. じゅ Quits his army, and returns to France, 284. Lucien, president, noticed, 287. Louis noticed, 311. Elected king of -. Jerome, his ship stranded, 322. Made |