and terminate the calamities that affected fo large a part of the globe, we are perfuaded were thy motives to effect the prefent pacification: motives fo juft in themselves, fo full of benevolence and humanity, demand our united and cordial approbation. May the Sovereign of the uni verfe, who created all nations of one blood, difpofe the minds of princes, by fuch examples, to learn other means of reconciling their jarring interefts and contentions, than by the ruin of countries, and the deftruction of mankind. The proofs we have received of thy royal condefcenfion and indul gence, the lafting impreffions of gratitude to the memory of the kings of thy illuftrious house, fill our hearts at this time with the warmeft fentiments of affection and duty. Strongly impreffed by fuch fentiments, we retire to our respective habitations, with full purpofe to cultivate, as much as in us lies, a fpirit of harmony and concord, fo effentially neceffary to the dignity of the crown, and the happiness of the fubject. May God, the fource of every bleffing, the fountain of every excellence, ever graciously direct thy fteps, and preferve thee long to reign over thy extenfive dominions, with that wisdom, moderation, and equity, which effectually fecure to princes the chearful obedience of their people, and tranfmit their names with deferved honour to pofterity. Signed in, and on behalf of, our yearly meeting, held in London, the 28th of the fifth month, 1763. His majesty's most gracious answer. THESE repeated affurances of your affection to my perfon and my family, and of your duty to my government, are very agreeable to me, and cannot fail to infure to you the continuance of my protection. Address of the corporation of Bath on the peace. WE the mayor, aldermen, and common council of the ancient and loyal city of Bath, do beg leave to congratulate, and most humbly to thank your majefty for an adequate and advantageous peace, which you have gracioufly procured for your people, after a long and very expensive, though neceffary and glorious war, which your majefty, upon your acceffion to the throne, found your kingdoms engaged in. And we take the liberty to af fure your majefty, that upon all occafions we shall be ready to give the most evident proofs of the trueft zeal and duty, which the moft dutiful fubjects can testify to the most gracious and best of princes. In teftimony whereof we have hereunto affixed our common feal, the 28th day of May, 1763. The following letters, which passed between the right honourable Mr. Pitt and Mr. Allen, on the fubject of the foregoing address, were inferted in the Bath journal, at the request of Mr. Pitt, to obviate the wrong impreffions, which an invidious reprefentation of that affair in the public news-papers might have occafioned. Dear Sir, Hayes, June 2, 1763. Having declined accompanying Sir John Sebright in prefenting the addrefs from Bath, tranfmitted to us jointly by the townclerk, I think it, on all accounts, indifpenfably neceffary, that I I fhould fhould inform you of the reafon of my opinion of the peace, I will Signed W. PITT. Prior Park, June 4. My dearest Sir, IT is extremely painful to me to find by the letter which you was pleafed to fend me the zd of this month, that the word adequate in the Bath address has been fo very offenfive to you, as to hinder the fincerest and most zealous of your friends in the corporation from tes stifying for the future their great attachment to you. Upon this occafion, in justice to them, it is incumbent on me to ac quaint you, that the exceptionable word does not reft with them, but myself, who fuddenly drew up that address to prevent their fend ing of another, which the mayor brought to me, in terms that I could not concur in copies of the two forms I have taken the liberty to fend to you in the inclofed pa per, for your private perufal, and fir John Sebright having in his letter to Mr. Clutterbuck only ac quainted him that in your abfence in the country he delivered the addrefs. I fhall decline executing your commands to the corporation on this delicate point, unless you renew them, upon your perufal of this letter, which, for fafety, I have fent by a meffenger, and beg your answer to it by him, who has orders to wait for it. Permit me to fay that I have not theleaft objection to, but the higheft regard, and even veneration for your whole conduct, neither have I any apology to make for the expreffion in which I am fo unfortunatejas to differ from you. And with the utmost respect, affection, and gratitude, you will always find me to be, my dearest fir, your most humble and most obedient fervant, Signed R, ALLEN." The beft wishes of this family always attend Lady Chatham, Prior Park, June 9, My dearest fir, WITH the greatest anxiety and concern, I have, in obedience to your pofitive and repeated com mands, executed the most painful commiffion that I ever received. Upon this difagreeable occafion give me leave just to say, that, however different our abilities may be, it is the duty of every honeft man, after he has made the ftrictest enquiry, to act pursuant to the light which the Supreme Being has been pleased to "difpenfe to him; and this being the rule that I am perfuaded we both govern ovrselves by, I fhall take the liberty now only to add, that it is impoffible for any perfon to retain higher fentiments of your late glorious adminiftration than I do, nor can be with truer fidelity, zeal, affection and refpect, than I have been, ftill am, and always fhall be, my dearest fir, your most humble, and moft obedient fervant, uneasiness, and occafion to you the trouble of fending a meffenger to. Hayes. I defire you to be affured. that few things can give me more real concern, than to find that my notions of the public good differ fo widely from thofe of the man whofe goodness of heart and private virtues I shall ever refpect and love. I am not infenfible to your kind motives for wishing to interpofe time for fecond thoughts; but knowing how much you approve an open and ingenuous proceeding, I trust that you will fee the unfitness of my concealing from my constituents the infurmountable reasons which prevented my obeying their commands, in prefenting an addrefs containing a difavowal of my opinion delivered in parliament relating to the peace. As their fervant, I owe to these gentlemen an explanation of my conduct on this occafion; and as a man not forgetful of the diftinguished honour of having been invited to reprefent them, I owe it in gratitude to them, not to think of embarraffing and encumbering for the future, friends to whom I have fuch obligations, and who now view with approbation measures of an administration founded on the fubverfion of that fyftem which once procured me the countenance Héreas we have taken into our royal confideration the and favour of the city of Bath. On extensive and valuable acquifitions thefe plain grounds, very coolly in America, fecured to our crown weighed, I will venture to beg by the late definitive treaty of peate again, that my equitable good concluded at Paris the 10th day of friend will be fo good to convey to February laft; and being defirous Mr. Mayor and the gentlemen of that all our loving fubjects, the corporation, my fentiments, as well of our kingdoms as of our co. contained in my letter of the felonies in America, may avail them cond inftant. Signed R. ALLEN. The best wishes of this family wait upon lady Chatham. By the KING. WH of the great benefits and advantages felves, with all convenient speed, which muft accrue therefrom to the r commerce, manufactures, and nav gation gation; we have thought fit, with the advice of our privy council, to iffue this our royal proclamation, hereby to publifh and declare to all our loving fubjects, that we have, with the advice of our faid privy council, granted our letters patent under our great feal of Great Britain, to erect within the countries and iflands, ceded and confirmed to us by the faid treaty, four diftinct and feparate governments, ftiled and called by the names of Quebec, Eaft Florida, Weft Florida, and Grenada, and limited and bounded as follows, viz. First, the government of Quebec, bounded on the Labrador coaft by the river St. John, and from thence by a line drawn from the head of that river, through the lake St. John, to the South end of the lake Nipiffim; from whence the faid line, croffing the river St. Lawrence and the lake Champlain in 45 degrees of North latitude, paffes along the High Lands, which divide the rivers that empty themfelves into the faid river St. Lawrence, from thofe which fall into the fea; and alfo along the North coaft of the Baye des Chaleurs, and the coaft of the Gulph of St. Lawrence to Cape Rofieres, and from thence croffing the mouth of the river St. Lawrence by the Weft end of the island of Anticofti, terminates at the aforefaid river St. John. Secondly, The government of Eaft Florida, bounded to the Weftward by the Gulph of Mexico and the Apalachicola river; to the Northward, by a line drawn from that part of the faid river where the Catahouchee and Flint rivers meet, to the fource of St. Mary's river, and by the courfe of the faid river to the Atlantic Ocean; and to the VOL. VI. Eaft and South by the AtlanticOcean, and the Gulph of Florida, including all islands within fix leagues of the fea coaft. Thirdly, The government of Weft Florida, bounded to the Southward by the Gulph of Mexico, including all iflands within fix leagues of the coaft from the river Apalachicola to lake Pontchartrain; to the Weftward by the faid lake, the lake Maurepas, and the river Mififippi; to the Northward, by a line drawn drawn due Eaft from that part of the river Miffifippi which lies in thirty-one degrees North latitude, to the river Apalachicola, or Catahouchee; and to the Eastward by the faid river. Fourthly, The government of Grenada, comprehending the ifland. of that name, together with the Grenadines, and the islands of Dominico, St. Vincent, and Tobago. And to the end that the open and free fishery of our fubjects may be extended to, and carried on upon the coaft of Labrador and the adjacent iflands, we have thought fit, with the advice of our faid privy council, to put all that coaft, from the river St. John's to Hudfon's Streights, together with the iflands of Anticofti and Madelaine, and all other fmaller iflands lying upon the faid coaft, under the care and inspection of our governor of Newfoundland. And whereas it will greatly contribute to the fpeedy fettling our faid new governments, that our loving fubjects fhould be informed of our paternal care for the fecurity of the liberties and properties of those who are, and fhall become inhabitants thereof; we have thought fit to publish and declare, by this our proclamation, that we have, in the letters patent under our great feal of Great Britain, by which the faid governments are conftitutod, given exprefs power and direction to our governors of our faid colonies respectively, that fo foon as the ftate and circumftances, of the faid colonies will admit thereof, they fhall, with the advice and confent of the members of our council, fummon, and call general affemblies within the faid governments refpectively, in fuch manner and form as is ufed and directed in thofe colonies and provinces in America, which are under our immediate govvernment; and we have alfo given power to the faid goyernors, with the confent of our faid councils, and the reprefenta tives of the people, fo to be fum. moned as aforefaid, to make, contitute, and ordain laws, flatutes, and ordinances for the public peace, welfare, and good government of our faid colonies, and of the people and inhabitants thereof, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England, and under fuch regulations and reftrictions as are ufed in other colonies; and in the mean time, and until fuch affemblies can be called as aforefaid, all perfons inhabiting in, or reforting to, our faid colonies, may confide in our royal protection for the enjoymenr of the benefit of the laws of our realm of England; for which purpofe we have given power under our great feal to the governors of our faid colonies refpectively, to erect and conflitute, with the advice of our faid councils refpective. ly, courts of judicature and public juftice within our faid colonies, for the hearing and determining all caufes, as well criminal as civil, according to law and equity, and, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England, with liberty to all perfons who may think themfelves aggrieved by the fentence of fuch courts, in all civil cafes, to appeal, under the ufual limitations and reftrictions, to us, in our privy council. We have alfo thought fit, with the advice of our privy council as aforefaid, to give unto the governors and councils of our faid three new colonies upon the continent, full power and authority to fettle and agree with the inhabitants of our faid new colonies, or to any other perfon who fhall refort thereto, for fuch lands, tenements, and hereditaments, as are now, or hereafter fhall be, in our power to difpofe of, and them to grant to any fuch perfon or perfons, upon fuch terms, and under fuch moderate quit-rents, fervices and ac knowledgments, as have been appointed and fettled in other colonies, and under fuch other condi tions as fhall appear to us to be neceffary and expedient for the advantage of the grantees, and the improvement and fettlement of our faid colonies. And whereas we are defirous, upon all occafions, to teftify our royal fenfe and approbation of the conduct and bravery of the officers and foldiers of our armies, and to reward the fame, we do hereby command and impower our governors of our faid three new colonies, 3 |