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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Preliminary articles for a general pacification between Britain and France, circulating in Holland, outline territorial concessions including France evacuating Canada, ceding African outposts, and exchanging Minorca for West Indian islands, with prisoner exchanges and indemnities.
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The following preliminary articles for a general pacification are handed about in Holland.
I. That France shall withdraw her armies from Germany.
II. That Britain shall likewise recall her national troops from that country, and discharge those of the allies at present in her pay.
III. That the French shall entirely evacuate Canada, and absolutely and irredeemably cede that territory to the British Crown that all their encroachments in North America shall be bona fide evacuated and delivered up; and that new limits and boundaries betwixt the settlements of both nations, in that quarter of the world, shall be marked out by Commissaries, on both sides, appointed for that purpose.
IV. That the fortifications of Isle Royal, or Cape Breton, shall be demolished, and the island entirely abandoned by both nations; and that the settling there of any of the natives of Britain or France, or those of any other country, bearing commission from either of those Crowns, shall be understood as a declaration of war.
V. That the possession of the islands of Guadaloupe, Mariegalante, &c. be confirmed to Britain, and the West India isles, commonly called the neutral Islands, be abandoned by France; as stipulated by the treaty of Aix la Chapelle:
VI. That the Island of Minorca be yielded to France.
VII. That Senegal and Goree, on the African coast, be ceded to Great Britain.
VIII. That the English East India Company shall be indemnified for the demolishing of Fort St. Davids, and the bombardment of Madras.
IX. That all the ships taken before or since the declaration of war, shall remain the property of the captors.
X. That the prisoners of war on both sides shall be exchanged, one for one, and as, after the said proposed exchange, there will remain in Britain upwards of 20000 prisoners, France shall, in consideration of their being set at liberty, make payment of the sum of -. as their ransom.
XI. That France shall give hostages for the evacuation of Canada, and the Neutral islands, and for payment of the sums, &c.
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Holland
Event Date
April 9
Outcome
proposed territorial cessions (canada to britain, minorca to france, guadaloupe and neutral west indies to britain, senegal and goree to britain); demolition of cape breton fortifications; prisoner exchange with ransom for excess french prisoners; indemnity to english east india company; ships remain with captors; french hostages for compliance.
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Preliminary articles for general pacification between Britain and France circulated in Holland, including French withdrawal from Germany, British recall of troops, evacuation and cession of Canada, new North American boundaries, abandonment of Cape Breton, confirmation of British West Indian possessions, cession of Minorca to France, African coastal territories to Britain, East India Company indemnity, retention of captured ships by captors, prisoner exchanges with ransom, and French hostages.