The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

May 10. We can assure our readers, that the sanguine expectations of being able to effect a general pacification on terms perfectly honorable to this country. Immediately on the accession to their new dignity, two gentlemen, Mess. Oswald and Whiteford, both formerly resident in America, and gentlemen of the most respectable characters, were dispatched to Paris, to confer with Dr. Franklin, on the subject of a partial negotiation on the part of America only. The answer given by the Doctor, was direct and peremptory, That the United Colonies would most assuredly listen to no proposal tending to a peace, which did not include France and the other belligerent powers as parties. He at the same time insinuated, that on those terms, and on the most unqualified admission of American independence, probably none of the powers at war, would have much objection to a peace, nor did he suppose an ungenerous depression of Great Britain would be much insisted on.

Mr. Oswald and Mr. Whiteford delivered this reply to Administration, and two other gentlemen have been since sent over, with more enlarged instructions, and with a power of obviating most of the objections that had been previously stated.