and declared to be the agent of my own choice. Even this effect of my caution is cefeated by your abfolute command for his re-appointment, independent of me, and with the fuppofition that I should be averfe to it. I am now wholly deprived of my official powers, both in the province of Owd and in the Zemindary of Benaris. Nor will the evil ftop at thefe lines. My general influence, the effects of which have been happily manifefted for the fupport of your intereft, is now wholly loft, or what may remain of it fuftained only by the prefcription of long poffeffion, and fomething perhaps of perfonal attachment, imprefled by the habits of frequent intercourse, I almoft fhudder at the reflection of what might have happened, had these denunciations against your own minister, in favour of a man univerfally condered in this part of the world as juftly attainted for his crimes, the murderer of your fervants and foldiers, and the rebel to your authority, arrived two months earlier. You will learn, by our common dispatches, what difficulties Mahdajee Sindia has had to furmount in reconciling the different members of the Mahrata ftate to the ratification, and even, when ratified, to the interchange, of the treaty concluded by him in May laft with this Government. I dare to appeal even to your judgment for the reply, and to ask, whether the minifters of the Peshwa, poffeffing the knowledge of fuch a circumstance, would not have availed themfelves of it to withhold their confent to the treaty, either claiming to include Cheyt Sing as a party in it, or ether overtly or fecretly fupporting his pretenfions, with the view of multiplying our difficulties; or, which is moft probable, waiting for the event of that change in the fuperior Government of Bengal which foch fymptoms por tended, before they precipitated their interes in a connection with a declining influence, which they might obviously conclude would render this, with all its other acts, obnoxious to that which fucceeded it. (To be continued.) Abstract of the Act for registering Births, & T HE Parfon, Vicar, or Curate, who fhail enter fuch registers, after the 1ft of Odiober, 1783, unstamped, forfeits five pounds. The Commiffioners a e, however, empowered to grant a ficenfe for ufing unflamped regifters, on receiving a bond from the clergyman, who is authorized to demand the duty of the undertaker, or other perfon employed on the funeral, or from the parties to be married, or from the parent of the child whofe birth or chriftening is to be registered, or other perfon requiring the chriftening of fuch child, previous to the register thereof being made. Parties refusing to pay the fame forfeit five pounds. Regifter books, and the flamps, to be provided by Churchwardens or Overfeers, and to be paid for out of the rates under his or their management; and they are from time to time to receive back the money, which fhall be fo paid, from the Parfon, Vicar, or Curate, who is authorised to receive the duty on making the respective entres in the register. The regiftering the burials of perfons from any Work houfe or Hofpital, or at the fole expence of any charity; and the births of children whofe parents at the time receive parish relief, to be exempted from the duty. The provifions of this &t to extend to the people called Quakers, and the registers now kept by them to be fubject to the above duty. The Parlon, Vicar, &c. entering the regis ters, and receiving the duty, to be allowed two fhillings in the pound for his trouble. Pecuniary penalties impofed to be divided; one moiety to his Majesty, and the other to fuch perfon as fhall fue for it. The following is a Letter from his PRUSSIAN Majesty to the celebrated Monf. D'ALEMBERT, in Anfrer to a Propofal from the latter, of his Majefly's becoming a Subfcriber to the STATUE OF VOLTAIRE, which was then making at Paris, by a Subscription, to which non: were admitted but the m ft diftin guifhed Characters in the Literary World. T HE hneft monument of Voltaire is that which he erects himself, his works; they will fubfift longer than the bafilic of St. Pe ter's, the Louvre, and all those buildings that vanity confecrates to eternity. Though French shall cease to be spoken, Voltaire fhall still be tranflated in the tongue that fhall fucceed it; in the mean time, full of the pleasure given me by his productions, fo var ous, and each fo perfect in its kind, I could not, without being ungrateful, refufe the propofition you make me, of contributing to the monument now raifing for him by the hand of public gratitude. You need only inform me of what is expected on my part; I will refuse nothing for this ftatue, that does more honour to the men of letters who confecrate it to him, than to Voltaire himself. The world will fay, that in this 18th century, when fo many people of learning vie with each other to defame their contemporaries, there have been found fome noble and generous e nou,h to do justice to a man endowed with a genius and talents fuperior to all ages; that we have deferved Voltaire: the latest posterity will fill envy us this advantage. To distinguih celebrated men, to do juftice to merit, is to encourage both fcience and virtue; it is the only recompence of great minds, and is well due to thofe who cultivate in a fupe.ior manner the belles lettres. They procure pleafures of an exalted fpecies, more durable than thofe of the body; they foften the most obdurare natures; they diffufe their charms over the whole courfe of our lives; they render our existence fupportable, and our deaths lefs terrible. Continue then, Gentlemen, to protect and celebrate thofe who apply to them, and who in Fance have the good fortune to fuccerd; you cannot poffibly do any thing more glorious to your nation. FREDERICK. From From the London Gazette. ing readily accepted that invitation, they have named, as their reprefentatives, viz. his Majefty the Emperor of the Romans, the moft illuftrions and most excellent Lord Florimond, aDefinitive Treaty of Peace Count Mercy-Argent(a), Vilcount of Loo and Friendship between us, the Moft Christian King and the King of Spain, hath been concluded at Verfailles on the 3d inftant, and the ratifications thereof have been exchanged upon the 19th inftant; in conformity thereunto we have thought fit hereby to command that the fame be published throughout all our dominions. And we do declare to all our loving fubjects, our will and pleasure, that the faid Treaty of Peace and Friendship be obferved inviolably, as well by fea as land, and in all places whatsoever; ftri&tly charging and commanding all our loving fubjects to take notice hereof, and conform themselves thereunto accordingly. Given at our Court at St. James's, the 26th of September, 1783, in the 23d year of our reign. GOD fave the KING! The DEFINITIVE TREATY of PEACE and In the Name of the Moft Holy and Undivided BE So be it. E it known to all those whom it fhall or may in any manner concern. The Moft Serene and Moft Potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of GoD, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Duke of Brunfwick and Lunenbourg, Arch-Treafurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c. and the Moft Serene and Moft Potent Prince Lewis the Sixteenth, by the Grace of God, Most Chriftian King, being equally defirous to put an end to the war, whicb, for feveral years paft, afflicted their respective dominions, accepted the offer which their Maj:fties the Emperor of the Romans, and the Empress of all the Ruffias, made to them, of their interpofition, and of their mediation. But their Britannick and Moft Chriftian Majefties, animated with a mutual defire of accelerating the re-establishment of peace, communicated to each other their laudable intention; which Heaven fo far bleffed, that they proceeded to Jay the foundations of peace, by figning Preliminary Articles at Verfailles, the 20th of January, in the present year. Their faid Majefties, the King of Great Britain and the Moft Chriftian King, thinking it incumbeat upon them to give their Imperial Majeft es a fignal proof of their gratitude for the generous offer of their mediation, invited them, in concert, to concur in the completion of the great and falutary work of peace, by taking part, as mediators, in the Definitive Treaty to be concluded between their Britannick and Moft Chriftian Majesties. Their faid Imperial Majesties hav Baron of Crichegnée, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Chamberlain, actual Privy Counsellor of State to his Imperial and Royal Apoftolick Majefty, and his Ambafador to his Moft Chriftian Majefty; and her Majefty the Emprefs of all the Ruffias, the moft illuftrious and most excellent Lord, Prince Iwan Bariatinskoy, Lieutenant General of the Forces of her Imperial Majefty of all the Ruffias, Knight of the Orders of St. Anne and of the Swedish Sword, and her Minifer Plenipotentiary to his Moft Christian Majefty, and the Lord Arcadi de Marcoff, Counsellor, of State to her Iraperial Majefty of all the Ruffias, and her Minifter Plenipotentiary to his Moft Chrif tian Majefty. In confequence, their faid Majesties, the King of Great Britain and the Moft Chriftian King, have named and confituted for their Plenipotentiaries, charged with the concluding and figning of the Defini tive Treaty of Peace, viz. the King of Great Britain, the most illustrious and moft excellent Lord George, Duke and Earl of Manchefer, Viscount Mandeville, Baron of Kimbolton, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the county of Huntingdon, actual Privy Counfellor to his Britannick Majefty, and his Ambas-` fador Extraordina y and Plenipotentiary to his Moft Chriftian Majefty: and the Moft Chriftian King, the moft illuftrious and most excellent Lord Charles Gravier, Count de Vergennes, Baron of Welferding, &c. the King's Counsellor in all his Councils, Commander in his Orders, Prefident of the Royal Council of Finances, Counsellor of State Military, Minifter and Secretary of State, and of his Commands and Finances: Who, after having exchanged their refpective full powers, have agreed upon the following Articles: Art. I. There fhall be a Christian, univerfal, and perpetual peace, as well by fea as by land, and a fincere and conftant friendship fhall be re-enablifhed between their Britan nick and Moft Chriftian Majefties, and between their heirs and fucceffors, kingdoms, dominions, provinces, countries, fubjects, and vaffals, of what quality or condition foever they be, without exception either of places or perfons; fo that the high contrading parties fhall give the greateft attention to the maintaining between themselves, and their faid do minions and fubjects, this reciprocal friendship and intercourfe, without permitting hereafter, on either part, any kind of hoftilities to be committed, either by fea,or by land, for any caufe or under any pretence whatfoever. And they fhall carefully avoid, for the future, every thing which might prejudice the union happily re-established, endeavouring, on the contrary, to procure reciprocally for each other, on every occafion, whatever may contribute to their mutual glory, interefis, and advantage, without giving any affiftance or protection, directly or indirectly, to thofe who would do any injury to either of the high contracting parties. There fhall be a general oblivion and amnefty of every thing which may have been done or committed before or fince the commencement of the war which is just ended. Arti II. The Treaties of Weftphalia of 648; the Treaties of Peace of Nimeguen of 1678 and 1679; of Ryswick of 1697; thofe of Peace and of Commerce of Utrecht of 1713; that of Baden of 1714; that of the Triple Alliance of the Hague of 1717; that of the Quadruple Alliance of London of 1718; the Treaty of Peace of Vienna of 3738; the Definitive Treaty of Aix-laChapelle of 1748; and that of Paris of 1763, ferve as a bafis and foundation to the peace, and to the prefent Treaty; and for this purpofe they are all renewed and confirmed in the best form, as well as all the Treaties in general which fubfifted between the high contracting parties before the war, as if they were herein inferted word for word; fo that they are to be exactly obferved for the future in their full tenor, and religiously executed by both parties in all the points which fhall not be derogated from by the -prefent Treaty of Peace. Art. 111. All the prifoners taken on either - fide, as well by land as by fea, and the hofBages carried away or given during the war, and to this day, fhall be reflored, without - ransom, in fix weeks at lateft, to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratification of the prefent Treaty; each crown respectively diicharging the advances which thall have been made for the fubfiflence and maintenance of their prifoners by the fovereign of the country where they fhall have been detained, according to the receipts and attefted accounts, and other authentic vouchers, which fhall be furnished on each fide: And fureties thall be reciprocally given for the payment of the debts which the prifoners have contracted in the Countries where they may have been detained, until their entire release. And all hips, as well men of war as merchant fhips, which may have been taken fince the expitation of the terms agreed upon for the ceffation of hoftilities by fea, fhall likewife be restored, bona fide, with all their crews and cargoes. And the execution of this article fhall be proceeded upon immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty. Art. IV. His majefty the king of Great Britain is maintained in his right to the ifLand of Newfoundland, and to the adjacent if lands, as the whole were affured to him by the thirteenth article of the Treaty of Utrecht; excepting the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, which are ceded in full right, by the prefent Treaty, to his moft Chriftian majefly. Art. V. His majesty the moft Chriftian king, in order to prevent quarrels which have hitherto arisen between the two nati ons of England and France, confents to renounce the right of fishing, which belongs to him in virtue of the aforefaid article of the Treaty of Utrecht, from Cape Bonavista to Cape St. John, fituated on the eastern coaft of Newfoundland, in fifty degrees north la titude; and his majetty the king of Great Britain confents on his part, that the fishery affigned to the subjects of his moft Chrif tian majefly, beginning at the faid Cape St. John, paffing to the north, and defcending by the western coaft of the island of Newfoundland, fhall extend to the place called Cape Raye, fituated in forty-feven degrees, fifty minutes north latitude. The French fishermen thall enjoy the fishery which is affigned to them by the prefent article, as they had the right to enjoy that which was affigned them by the Treaty of Utrecht. Art. VI. With regard to the fishery in the Gulph of St. Laurence, the French thall continue to exercife it conformably to the fifth article of the Treaty of Paris. Art VII. The king of Great Britain reftores to France the inland of St. Lucia, in the condition it was in when it was conquered by the British arms: and his Bri tannick majefty cedes and guarantees to his moft Chriftian majefty the island of Tobago, The Protefiant inhabitants of the faid if land, as well as thofe of the fame religion who shall have fettled at St Lucia whil that ifland was occupied by the British arms, shall not be molested in the exercife of their worship: And the British inhabitants, or o thers who may have been fubjects of the king of Great Britain in the aforefaid iflands, fhall retain their poffeffions upon the fame titles and conditions by which they have acquired them; or else they may retire in full fecurity and liberty where they may think fit, and fhall have the power of felling their estates, provided it be to the fubjects of his moft Christian majefty, and of removing their effects, as well as their perfons, without being refrained in their emigrations, under any pretence whatsoever, except on account of debts, or of criminal profecutions. The term limited for this emigration is fixed to the space of eighteen months, to be computed from the day of the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent Treaty. And for the better, fecuring the poffeffions of the inhabitants of the aforefaid itland of Tobago, the most chriftian king hall iffae letters patent, containing an abel:tion of the Droit d' Aubaine in the faid ifland. Art. VIII. The moft Chriftian king reflores to Great Britain the islands of Grenada and the Grenadines, St. Vincent's, Dominica, St. Chriftopher's, Nevis, and Montferrat; and the fortreffes on thefe lands thall be delivered up in the condition in which they were when the conqueft of them was made. The fame ftipulations inferted in the preceding article fhall take place in favour of the French fubjects with refpc& to the inlands enumerated in the prefent article. Art. IX. The king of Great Britain cedes in full right, and guarantees to his most Chriftian majefty, the river Senegal and its dependencies, with the forts of St. Louis, Podor, Galam, Arguin, and Portendric and his Britannic majefty reftores to France the inland of Goree, which shall be delivered up in the condition it was in when the conquest of it was made. Art. X. The moft Chriflian king, on his part, guarantees to the king of Great Britain the poffeffions of Fort James, and of the river Gambia. Art. XI. For preventing all difcuffion in that part of the world, the two high contracting parties fhall, within three months after the exchange of the ratifications of the prefent Treaty, name commiffaries, who hall be charged with the fettling and fixing the boundaries of the respective poffef fions. As to the gum-trade, the English shall have the liberty of carrying it on, from the mouth of the river St. John, to the bay and fort of Portendric inclufively. Provided that they shall not form any permanent fettlement, of what nature foever, in the faid river St. John, upon the coaft, or in the bay of Portendric. Art. XII. As to the refidue of the coaft of Africa, the English and French fabjects fhall continue to refort thereto, according to the ufage which has hitherto prevailed. Art. XIII. The king of Great Britain reftores to his moft Chriftian majefty all the fettlements which belonged to him at the beginning of the prefent war, upon the coast of Orixa, and in Bengal, with liberty to furround Chandernagore with a ditch for draining off the waters: And his Britannic majefty engages to take fuch measures as fhall be in his power for fecuring to the fubjes of France in that part of India, as well as on the coafts of Orixa, Coromandel, and Malabar, a safe, free, and independent trade, fuch as was carried on by the French East India Company, whether they exercife it individually or united in a company. Art. XIV. Pondicherry fhall be in like manner delivered up and guaranteed to France, as alfo Karikal: And his Britannic majefty fhall procure, for an additional dependency to Pondicherry, the two dif tricts of Valanour and Bahour; and to Ka rikal, the four Magans bordering thereupon. Art. XV. France fhall re-enter into the poffeffion of Mahé, as well as of its factory at Surat; and the French fhall carry on their trade, in this part of India, conformably to the principles eftablished in the thirteenth article of this treaty. Art. XVI. Orders having been sent to India by the high contracting parties, in purfuance of the fixteenth article of the Preliminaries, it is further agreed, that if, with in the term of four months, the respective allies of their Britannic and moft Chriftian majefties thall not have acceded to the pre fent pacification, or concluded a feparate accommodation, their faid majefties shall not give them any affiftance, directly or indi reftly, against the British or French poffeffions, or against the ancient poffeffions of their refpective allies, such as they were in the year 1776. Art. XVII. The king of Great Britain, being defirous to give to his most Christian majetty a fincere proof of reconciliation and friendship, and to contribute to render folid the peace re-established between their faid majeflies, confents to the abrogation and fuppreffion of the articles relative to Dune. kirk, from the Treaty of Peace concluded. at Utrecht in 1713, inclufive, to this day. Art XVIII Immediately after the exchange of the Ratifications the two high contracting parties fhall name commiffaries to treat concerning new arrangements of commerce between the two nations, on the basis of reciprocity and mutual convenience; which arrangements thall be fettled and con cluded within the fpace of two years, to be computed from the 1st of January, 1784. Art. XIX. All the countries and territories which may have been, or which may be, conquered in any part of the world what-, foever, by the arms of his Britannic majef ty, as well as by thofe of his moft Chriftian majefty, which are not included in the prefent Treaty, neither under the head of cef. fions, nor under the head of reftitutions, fhall be restored without difhculty, and with-out requiring any compenfation. Art. XX. As it is necellary to appoint a certain period for the reftitutions and eva cuations to be made by each of the high contracting parties, it is agreed that the king of Great Britain fhall caufe to be evacuated the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, three months after the ratification of the prefent Treaty, or fooner, if it can be done; St. Lucia (one of the Charibee iflands) and. Goree, in Africa, three months after the ratification of the prefent Treaty, or fooner, if it can be done. The king of Great Bri tain fhall in like manner, at the end of three months after the ratification of the present Treaty, or fooner, if it can be done, enter again into the poffeffion of the islands of Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent's, Dominica, St. Chriftopher's, Nevis, and Montferrat. France thall be put in poffeffion of the towns and factories which are reftored to her in the East Indies, and of the territories which are procured for her, to ferve as additional dependencies to Pondicherry, and to Karikal, fix months after the ratification of the prefent Treaty, or fooner, if it can be done. France hall deliver up, at the end of the like term of fix months, the towns and territories which her arms may have taken from the English, or their allies, in the East Indies. In confequence where whereof, the neceffary orders fhall be fent by each of the high contracting parties, with reciprocal paffports for the hips which fhall carry them, immediately after the ratification of the prefent Treaty. Art. XXI. The decifion of the prizes and feizures made prior to the hoftilities fhall be referred to the respective courts of juftice; fo that the legality of the faid prizes and feizures fhall be decided according to the law of nations and to Treaties, in the courts of justice of the nation which fhall have made the capture or ordered the fei zures. Art. XXII. For preventing the revival of the law-fuits which have been ended in the Rands conquered by either of the high contracting parties, it is agreed that the judgments pronounced in the laft refort, and which have acquired the force of matters determined, fhall be confirmed and executed according to their form and tenor. Art. XXIII. Their Britannic and moft Chriftian majeftres promife to obferve fincerely, and bona fide, all the articles contsined and established in the prefent Treaty; and they will not faffer the fame to be infringed, directly or indirectly, by their refpective fobjects: And the faid high contracting parties guaranty to each other, generally and reciprocally, all the ftipulations of the prefent Treaty. Art. XXIV. The folemn ratifications of the prefect Treaty, prepared in good and dure form, fhall be exchanged in this city of Verfailles, between the high contracting parties, in the fpace of a month, or fooner if poffible, to be computed from the day of the gnature of the prefent Treaty. In witness whereof, we, the under-written ambaffador extraordinary, and minifters plenipotentiary, have figned with our hands, in their names, and in virtue of our refpective full powers, the prefent Definitive Treaty, and have caufed the feals of our arms to be affixed thereto. Done at Verfailles, the third day of Sep- (L. S.) MANCHESTER. GRAVIER DE VERGENNES. SEPARATE ARTICLES. Art. I. Some of the titles made use of by the contracting parties, whether in the full powers and other inftruments, during the courfe of the negotiation, or in the preamble of the prefent treaty, not being genesally acknowledged, it has been agreed that no prejudice fhould ever refult therefrom to the faid contracting parties; and that the titles taken or omitted on either fide, upon eccafion of the faid negotiation, and of the prefent treaty, fhall not be cited or quoted as a precedent. Art. II. It has been agreed and determined, that the French language, made use of in all the copies of the prefent Treaty, fhall not form an example which may be alledged or quoted as a precedent, or in any manner prejudice either of the contracting powers; and that they fhall conform, for the future, to what has been obferved, and what ought to be obferved, with regard to, and on the part of, powers who are in the practice and poffeffion of giving and receiv ing copies of like Treaties in a different language from the French; the prefent Treaty having, nevertheless, the fame force and virtue as if the aforefaid practice had been therein obferved. In witness whereof, we, the under-written ambaffador extraordinary, and minifters plenipotentiary, of their Britannic and moft chriftian majesties, have figned the prefent Separate Articles, and have caused the feals of our arms to be affixed thereto. Done at Verfailles, the third of Septem ber, One thoufand feven hundred and eighty-three. (L. S.) MANCHESTER. (L. S.) GRAVIER DE VERGENNES. The Declaration and Counter Declaration, &c. &c. in our next. THEATRICAL REGISTER. HAY-MARKET. Sept. 1. Seeing is Believing-The Agree able Surprife-Harlequin Teague. 2. The Young Quaker-Gretna Green. 3. Love in a Village-Harlequin Teague. 4. The Young Quaker-Gretna Green. 5. Seeing is Believing-The Suicide-The Agreeable Surprize. 6. The Young Quaker-Gretna Green. 8. The Spanish Barber-Seeing is Believing-Gretna Green. 9. The Young Quaker-Gretna Green, 10. Separate Maintenance-Seeing is Believing-The Agreeable Surprife. 11. The Young Quaker-Gretna Green. 16 The Bufy Body-The Quaker. COVENT GARDEN. 17. Love in a Village-Tristram Shandy. 19. The Recruiting Officer-The Padlock. 22. Romeo and Juliet-The Choice of Harlequin. 24-Othello-The Quaker. 26. The New Way to Pay Old DebtsTom Thumb. 29. Othello.-Choice of Harlequin. 08. 1. She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not.Flitch of Bacon. FO |