The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NEW YORK, MARCH 27, 1783.

The following is copied from a hand bill Published by Mr. David C. Claypole.

PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 24:

His Most Christian Majesty's cutter the Iris, commanded by the Chevalier DuQuesne, arrived this Morning, in 36 days from Cadiz. By her we have the following very agreeable and important INTELLIGENCE: The principal ARTICLES of the PRELIMINARIES of PEACE, of the 20th of January 1783.

France to retain Tobago and Senegal.

France to restore to Great Britain, Grenada, St. Vincents, Dominica and St. Christophers.

St. Eustatia, Demerara, Essequibo, to be restored to the Dutch.

Great Britain to restore to France, Goree, St. Lucia, St. Pierre and Miquelon.

The Fishery of France and England, on the coast of Newfoundland to remain on the same footing on which they were left by the treaty in 1763, except that part of the coast from Bonavista to Cape St. John's, which shall belong to the English.

France to be re-established in the East Indies, as well in Bengal as on the East and West Coast of the Peninsula, as regulated by the treaty of 1763.

The articles of the preceding treaties, concerning the demolition of Dunkirk, to be suppressed:

Spain to retain Minorca & West Florida:

Great Britain cedes East Florida to Spain.

An agreement to be entered into between Spain and Great Britain, about the cutting of wood in the Bay of Honduras.

Great Britain to retain the Dutch settlement of Negapatam, in the East Indies.

Great Britain to restore Trincomalee to the Dutch, if not retaken.

St. Eustatia, Demerara and Essequibo, to be restored by the French to the United Provinces.

Great Britain acknowledges the Sovereignty and Independence of the Thirteen United States of America.

The limits of the United States to be as agreed upon in the provisional articles between them and Great Britain, except that they shall not extend further down the river Mississippi than the 32 deg. of north latitude from whence a line is to be drawn to the head of the river St. Mary, and along the middle of that river to its mouth.

Copy of the heads of the Preliminaries of Peace, signed the 20th of January, and transmitted by express on the 22d by the Marquis de Castries. (Signed) D'ESTAING.

Cadiz, February 11, 1783.

M. le C. Anna de la Luzerne, Chevalier of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Marechal des Camps and Armies of the King, Minister Plenipotentiary of his Most Christian Majesty to the United States of North America, &c.

MAKE known to all those whom it may concern, that the Chevalier Duquesne, Lieutenant commanding his Majesty's cutter the Triumph, who arrived this day at this port, has communicated to us Orders, in form of a Passport, which he received from Count d'Estaing, Vice Admiral of France, of which the following is a Copy

"CHARLES HENRY COUNT D'ESTAING, Vice Admiral of France, Lieutenant General of his Majesty's Forces, Knight of his Orders, &c.

It is ordered, that Monsieur the Chevalier Duquesne, Lieutenant commanding his Majesty's cutter Triumph, do sail as soon as possible from the Bay of Cadiz, and inform all vessels that he may meet of the happy re-union of the belligerent powers.

It is ordered in the name of his Majesty, and by Me, to all ships of the line, frigates, and other vessels belonging to his Majesty, that he may meet, that they abstain from all hostilities against the ships of war, and merchant vessels of his Britannic Majesty, but, on the contrary, that they give them all necessary aid and succour, and every testimony of a union re-established under the most happy auspices, by the preliminaries which were signed the 20th of this month of January, in the present year. It is ordered also, in his Majesty's name that all vessels armed for war and on a cruise, do return into port. After having given them a copy of this order, he shall take their names, likewise the date of the day that he shall have furnished it, and shall notify to them that they shall answer personally for every deed which they may commit contrary thereto.

Monsieur the Chevalier Duquesne, in virtue of the present order, which serves him for a passport, shall carry a flag of truce, he shall particularly cruise in those latitudes where he presumes he may meet the greatest number of French privateers, and shall endeavour to overtake them. If the events of the sea shall conduct him to any of the French colonies, or upon the coasts of the United States of America: he shall communicate the present orders to the Governor of the place, and to the armed vessels of the different nations that may be then there. He will likewise show the present passport to all vessels of war belonging to his Britannic Majesty with whom he shall speak, and give them a copy signed by him, if they should desire it. He shall likewise pay them every respect, which the first moments of a re-union demands, the object of his mission (for the good of humanity, and as much as in my power) being to hasten its happy effects. Signed DESTAING.

Cadiz, 10th of February, 1783:

By Order,

MARTIN

AND desiring to give all necessary authenticity and notoriety to these orders, we certify by these presents, that the above is a true copy.

We likewise certify, That M. le Chevalier Duquesne has informed us, that M. le Comte d'Estaing directed him to desire all vessels that he should find ready to sail in the different ports where he should have occasion to go, to delay their departure from said ports, until the arrival of official accounts of the Signing the PRELIMINARIES, the news of which cannot fail to arrive soon on this continent.

Given at Philadelphia, in our Hotel, this 24th of March, 1783.

Le Chevalier de la LUZERNE:

Copy of a letter from Elias Boudinot, Esq. President of the Continental Congress, to William Livingston, Esq: Governor of New Jersey.

An express has just arrived from on board a sloop of war in the river, which left Cadiz Feb. 14—She announces, that the Definitive treaty, having been signed by all the belligerent powers, on the 20th of January, all hostilities had ceased in Europe: and that the same happy event was to take place in this country on the 20th of March inst.—The Comte D'Estaing, who was ready to sail with sixty ships of the line, a very formidable armament, had given up the attempt, and was dispersing his fleet to the different ports—This ship does not bring official dispatches, having been sent by Compte D'Estaing, and the Marquis de la Fayette, in hopes that she might by accident (as she has done) be the fortunate medium of the earliest communication—Altho' the stage goes to morrow morning, I could not, with satisfaction to my own mind, suffer your Excellency, and my friends in Trenton, to be deprived of the knowledge of so happy an event, one moment longer than absolute necessity required.

I have the honor to be &c. &c.