... The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Τόμος 5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 |
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Σελίδα 851 - such principles of liberal equality and reciprocity as that partial advantages (those seeds of discord) being excluded, such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries may be established as to promise and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony. His Britannic majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Σελίδα 852 - it strikes 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 31st degree of latitude north of the equator; south, by a
Σελίδα 96 - the 4th of May last I had the honor of a conference with the president of their high mightinesses, in which I informed him that I had received a commission from the United States of America, with full powers and instructions to propose and conclude a treaty of amity and commerce between the United States of America and
Σελίδα 594 - OFFICE OF FINANCE, July 5,1782. SIR : I have received the letter which you did me the honor to write in February last. It gives me very particular pleasure to find that my operations are approved by a gentleman whose talents and situation conspire together
Σελίδα 749 - wellbeloved Richard Oswald, of our city of London, esquire, greeting. Whereas, by virtue of an act passed in the last session of parliament, entitled " An act to enable his majesty to conclude a peace or truce with certain colonies in North America therein mentioned," it is recited " that it is essential to the interest, welfare,
Σελίδα 672 - to Franklin, t [Translation.] VERSAILLES, August 23,1782. SIR : I have received the letter you did me the honor of writing to me on the 9th instant as well as the memorial enclosed in it. 1 communicated the paper to the Marquis de Castries, and I make no doubt but that the minister will take into consideration its
Σελίδα 146 - note (dated January 28) from the minister of France, Resolved, That the following powers and instructions be given to the minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America at the court of Versailles. Whereas the minister of his most Christian majesty has informed the United States in Congress assembled that the loan of ten millions of livres
Σελίδα 615 - our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, although we shall not otherwise in the meantime have revoked and determined the same, in witness, &c. And for so doing this shall be your warrant. Given at our Court of St. James the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand seven hundred
Σελίδα 542 - with any duties whatsoever ; that so much of the vacant lands there shall be sold as will raise a sum sufficient to pay for the houses burnt by the British troops and their Indians ; and also to indemnify the royalists for the confiscation of their estates? He then told
Σελίδα 807 - drawn from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, along the highlands which divide those rivers which empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northermost head of Connecticut