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We beg leave to congratulate your excellency and ourfelves upon your appointment to the government of this kingdom, at a period peculiarly aufpicious to Ireland.

In the fullest reliance upon your excellency's wifdom, juftice, and integrity, we anticipate the ad. vantages this kingdom muft derive from your excellency's adminiftration; and confider your excellency's appointment to prefide in it as a fresh inftance of his majefty's paternal regard for the happinefs of his faithful people.

We are highly grateful for the warmth with which your excellency fignifies your fatisfaction at meeting us in the full poffeffion and enjoyment of thofe conftitutional and commercial rights, which were fo firmly established in the last parliament.

We trust that the unequivocal proofs given by Great Britain of her facred regard to the adjuftment then made with Ireland, cannot fail to cement the union, and strengthen the mutual confidence between two kingdoms, the true interefts of which are and muft ever be infeparable.

We beg leave to fhare with your excellency the fatisfaction you exprefs at the fuccefs of his ma jefty's endeavours to restore the bleffings of peace to his faithful people.

We fhall, in purfuance of your excellency's wife and feafonable advice, fhew our readiness to deliberate upon the meafures point ed out by your excellency, as well for regulating the judicature of the court of admiralty, and the new establishment of the poft-of

fice, as for promoting our commercial purfuits, and reaping the advantages to be derived from the refloration of public tranquility. Permit us to add, that the recommendation of thofe measures by your excellency, affords the moft convincing evidence of your refpect for the rights, and your capacity to difcern, and defire to promote the interests of Ireland.

The measures pursued by government, by the advice of the Privy Council, to avert the miferies of an impending famine, if not strictly conformable to law, will appear, we doubt not, to have been urged by neceffity, and fo effential to the public good as to merit parliamentary indemnification.

We enjoy the highest pleasure in every addition to the domeftic happinefs of our gracious fovereign, and participate in your excellency's fatisfaction at the birth of another princess.

We truft our well known and moft fincere loyalty to his majefty, our confidence in the fincerity and good faith of our fifter kingdom, and the ample means we have lately acquired of becoming a great and commercial people, will difpofe us to carry on our confultations for his majefty's honour and the good of our country, with that duty, temper, and unanimity, which can alone render them fuccefsful, and perpetuate the harmony between the two kingdoms: and with the firmeft reliance on your excellency's pure and difinterested intentions towards us, we fhall, to the utmost of our power, fupport the honour of his majefty's

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wife, fhall meet with no lawful impediment in the profecution of their just rights.

Art. VI. That there fhall be no future confifcations made, nor any profecutions commenced against any perfon or perfons for or by reafon of the part which he or they may have taken in the prefent war; and that no perfon fhall on that account fuffer any future lofs or damage either in his perfon, liberty, or property, and that those who may be in confinement on fuch charges at the time of the ratification of the treaty in America, fhall be im. mediately fet at liberty, and the profecutions fo commenced be difContinued.

Art. VII. There fhall be a firm and perpetual peace between his Britannic majefty and the faid United States, and between the fubjects of the one and the citizens of the other; wherefore all hoftilities both by fea and land fhall from henceforth ceafe; all prifoners on both fides fhall be fet at liberty, and his Britannic majefty fhall, with all convenient fpeed, and without caufing any deftruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrifons, and fleets, from the faid United States, and from every poft, place and harbour, within the fame; leaving in all fortifications the American artillery that may be therein; and fhall alfo order and cause all archives, records, deeds, and papers belonging to any of the faid ftates, or their citizens, which in the courfe of the war may have fallen into the hands of

his officers, to be forthwith re stored and delivered to the proper ftates and períons to whom they belong.

Art. VIII. The navigation of the river Miffiffippi, from its fource to the ocean, fhall for ever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.

Art. IX. In cafe it fhould fo

happen that any place or territory belonging to Great Britain, or to the United States, fhould have been conquered by the arms of either from. the other, before the arrival of the faid provifional articles in America, it is agreed that the fame fhall be restored without difficulty, and without requiring any compenfation.

Art. X. The folemn ratifications of the prefent treaty, expedited in good and due form, fhall be exchanged between the contracting parties in the fpace of fix months, or fooner, if poffible, to be computed from the day of the fignature of the present treaty.

In witnefs whereof we the under-figned, their minifters plenipotentiary, have in their name, and in virtue of our full powers, figned with our hands the prefent definitive treaty, and caufed, the feals of our arms to be affixed thereto.

Done at Paris, this third day of
September, in the year of our
Lord one thoufand seven hun-
dred and eighty-three.

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entertain of me by an unremitting attention to the welfare and happiness of this kingdom,

The following is a Tranflation of the Manifefto published by order of the Empress of Ruffia, upon the Occafion of her Troops entering the Peninfula of the Crimea, the Cuban, and the Island of Taman; which Countries are thereby de

clared to be annexed to her Imperial Majefly's Dominions.

WE Catherine the Second, by the Grace of God, Emprefs and Sole Monarch of all the Ruffias, &c. &c. &c,

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UR laft war against the Ottoman empire having been attended with the moft fignal fuc. ceffes, we had certainly acquired the right of re-uniting to the territories of our empire the Crimea, of which we were in poffeffion; we, however, hesitated not to facrifice that, with many other conquefts, to our ardent defire of reeftablishing the public tranquillity, and of confirming the good understanding and friendship between our empire and the Ottoman Porte. This motive induced us to ftipulate for the freedom and independence of the Tartars, whom we had reduced by our arms; hoping to remove for ever, by this means, every caufe of diffenfion, and even of coolnefs between Ruffia and the Ottoman Porte, expofed too often to thefe inconveniencies by the form of government which then fubfifted among the Tartars.

Great as were our facrifices and efforts for realising thofe hopes,

they were foon, to our great regret, confiderably diminished. The reftleffness natural to the Tartars, fomented by infinuations, the fource of which is not unknown to us, caufed them eafily to fall into a fnare laid by foreign hands, which had fowed amongst them the feeds of disturbance and confufion to fuch a degree, as to induce them to labour for the weakening, and even the total ruin of an edifice which our beneficent cares had erected for the happinefs of that nation, by procuring them liberty and independence, under the authority of a chief elected by themfelves. Hardly was their khan established according to this new form of govern. ment, before he faw himfelf deprived of all authority, and even obliged to defert his country, to give place to an ufurper, who would again fubject the Tartars to the yoke of a dominion, from which our beneficence had releafed them. The greater part of them, as blind as they were ignorant, had fubmitted to that ufurper; the reft, thinking themfelves too weak to refift, would infallibly have yielded to his yoke; and thus we fhould have loft the fruits of our victories, and the principal recompence for the facrifices which we willingly made at the laft peace, if we had not inftantly taken under our imme. diate protection fuch of the welldifpofed Tartars, who, prizing the bleffings of their new political exiftence, lamented their being forced to fubmit to the ufurper who had expelled their lawful khan. By thus effectually protecting them, we furnished them with the power and the

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view to obviate all future difputes, now agree, that it fhall be restored, and it is hereby fettled, that, if the faid country be a part of the established territory of the Gwickwar, it shall be restored to the Gwickwar; and if it shall be a part of the Peshwa's territories, it shall be reftored to the Peshwa.

Art. VI. The English engage, that having allowed Ragonaut Row a period of four months, from the time which this treaty fhall become complete, to fix on a place of refidence, they will not after the expiration of the faid period afford him any fupport, protection, or affiftance, nor fupply him with money for his expences and the Pefhwa on his part engages, that if Ragonaut Row will voluntarily, and of his own accord, repair to Maha Rajah Madhoo Row Scindia, and quietly refide with him, the fum of 25,000 rupees per month fhall be paid him for his maintenance, and no injury whatever fhall be offered to him by the Peshwa, or any of his people.

Art. VII. The Hon. English Eaft India company and the Peshwa being defirous that their refpective allies fhall be included in this peace, it is hereby mutually ftipulated, that each party fhall make peace with the allies of the other in the manner herein after specified.

Art. VIII. The territory which has long been the established jag heer of Seeajee Gwickwar, and Futty Sing Gwickwar, that is to fay, whatever territory Futty Sing Gwickwar poffeffed at the commencement of the prefent war, fhall hereafter for ever remain on

the ufual footing in his poffeffion; and the faid Futty Sing fhall, from the date of this treaty being complete, pay for the future to the Peshwa the tribute as usual, previous to the present war; and shall perform fuch services, and be subject to fuch obedience as have long been established, and customary. No claims fhall be made on the faid Futty Sing, by the Peshwa, for the period that is paft.

Art. IX. The Peshwa engages, that whereas the nabob Hyder Ally Cawn, having concluded a treaty with him, hath difturbed and taken poffeffion of territories belonging to the English and their allies, he fhall be made to relinquifh them, and they shall be reftored to the company, and the nabob Mahomed Ally Cawn. All prifoners that have been taken on either fide during the war, fhall be released, and Hyder Ally Cawn fhall be made to relinquish all fuch territories belonging to the English company, and their allies, as he may have taken poffeffion of fince the ninth of the month Ramzan, in the year 1180, being the date of his treaty with the Pefhwa; and the faid territories fhall be delivered over to the English, and the nabob Mahomed Ally Cawn, within fix months after this treaty being complete: and the English in fuch cafe agreed, that fo long as Hyder Ally Cawn fhail afterwards abstain from hoftilities against them and their allies, and fo long as he fhall continue in friendfhip with the Pefhwa, that they will, in no refpect, act hoftilely towards him.

Art. X. The Peshwa engages

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on his own behalf, as well as on behalf of the nabob Nizam Ally Cawn, Ragojee Boufala, Syna Saheb Souba, and the nabob Hyder Ally Cawn, that they fhall in every respect maintain peace towards the English and their allies the nabob Afophul Dowlah Behader, and the nabob Mahomed Ally Cawn Behader, and fhall in no refpect whatever give them any disturbance. The Englifh engage on their own behalf, as well as on the behalf of their allies the nabob Afophul Dowlah, and the nabob Mahomed Ally Cawn, that they shall in every refpect maintain peace towards the Peshwa, and his allies the nabob Nizam Ally Cawn, Ragojee Boufala, and Syna Saheb: and the English further engage on their own behalf, as well as on the behalf of their allies, that they will maintain peace alfo towards the nabob Hyder Ally Cawn, under the conditions fpecified in the 9th article of this treaty.

Art. XI. The Hon. the Eaft India company, and the Pefhwa mutually agree, that the veffels of

pany agree, that the fubjects of the Pefhwa fhall be allowed the privileges of trade without inter-, ruption in the territories of the English.

Art. XIII. The Peshwa hereby engages, that he will not suffer any factories of other European nations to be established in his territories, or those of the chiefs dependent on him, excepting only fuch as are already established by the Portuguese; and he will hold no intercourfe of friendship with any other European nations: and the English on their part agree, that they will not afford affiftance to any nation of Decan, or Hindoftan, at enmity with the Peshwa.

Art. XIV. The English and the Pefhwa mutually agree, that neither will afford any kind of affiftance to the enemies of the other.

Art. XV. The Hon. the governor-general and council of Fort William engage, that they will not permit any of the chiefs, dependents, or fubjects of the English, the gentlemen of Bombay, Surat, or Madras, to act contrary, at any place, to the each fhall offer no disturbance to terms of this treaty. In the fame the navigation of the veffels of manner the Pefhwa Madhoo Row the other and the veffels of each Pundit Purdhan : engages, that fhall be allowed access to the ports none of the chiefs or fubjects of of the other, where they shall the Mahratta ftate fhall act conmeet with no moleftation, and the trary to them. fulleft protection fhall be reciprocally afforded.

Art. XII. The Peshwa, and the chiefs of the Mahratta ftate, hereby agree, that the English fhall enjoy the privilege of trade as formerly, in the Mahratta territories, and fhall meet with no kind of interruption and in the fame manner, the East India com

Art. XVI. The honourable East India company, and the Pefhwa Madhoo Row Pundit Purdhan, having the fulleft confidence in Maha Rajah Subadar Madhoo Row Scindia Behader, they have both requested the faid Maha Rajah to be the mutual guarantee for the perpetual and invariable adherence of both parties to the

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