Wonder, gratitude, and joy, Advice to the Fair. If you're not too proud for a word of advice, In your choice of a husband, girls, be not too nice, What with manning our ships and protecting our shore, You cannot have lovers as once by the score, If you wish to be married, your pride must come down ; What a fmile can procure, do not loose by a frown. II. The time it has been, it will ne'er be again, When a legion of lovers, I had in my train, They were pleas'd with my fing song, I laugh'd at them all; For one was too fhort and another too tall, Or too plump, or to flender, too young or too old, And this was too bashful, and that was too bold. III. All you who're in bloom, and who Hymen implore, ace love may not wait till the wars are all o'er, Refemble the willow, be gentle and bend, Take pains for a lover as you wou'd for a friend, Look once at his person, but twice at his mind, Wonder, gratitude, and joy, Advice to the Fair. IF you're not too proud for a word of advice, In your choice of a husband, girls, be not too nice, What with manning our fhips and protecting our shore, You cannot have lovers as once by the fcore, If you wish to be married, your pride must come down ; What a fmile can procure, do not loofe by a frown II. The time it has been, it will ne'er be again, When a legion of lovers, I had in my train, They were pleas'd with my fing song, I laugh'd at them all; For one was too short and another too tall, Or too plump, or to flen der, too young or too old, And this was too bashful, and that was too bold. III. All you who're in bloom, and who Hymen implore, Hoce love may not wait till the wars are all o'er, Refemble the willow, be gentle and bend, Take pains for a lover as you wou'd for a friend, Look once at his perfon, but twice at his mind, At the defire of a number of our The DEFINITIVE TREATY be- I T having pleafed the Divine Providence to difpofe the hearts of the Moft Serene and Moft Potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunfwick and Lunenburg, Arch Treasurer, and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &c. and of the United States of America, to forget all paft misunderstandings and differences that hath unhappily interrupted the good correfpondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore, and to establish fuch a beneficial and fatisfa@ory intercourfe between the two countries upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience as may promote and fecure to both perpetual peace and harmony; and having, for this defirable end, already laid the foundation of peace and reconciliation, by the Provifional Articles figned at Paris on the 30th of November, 1782, by the Commiffioners empow. ered on each part, which Articles were agreed to be infetred in and to conftiture the Treaty of Peace proposed to be concluded between the Crown of Great Britain and the faid United States, but which Treaty was not to be concluded until terms of peace fhould be agreed upon between GreatBritain and France, and his Britannic. Majefty fhould be ready to conclude fuch Treaty accordingly; and the Treaty between Great Britain and France having fince been concluded, his Britannic Majefty and the United States of America, in order to carry into full effect the Provifional Articles above-mentioned, according to the tenor thereof, have conftituted and appointed, that is to fay, his Britannic Majefty on his part, David Hartly, Efq; Member of the Parliament of Great Britain and the faid United States on their part, John Adams, Efq; late a Commiffioner of the United States of America at the Court of Verfales, late Delegate in Congress from the State of Maffachusetts, and Chief Juftice of the faid State, and Minifter Plenipotentiary of the faid United States to their High Mighti neffes the States General of the Unit ed Netherlands; Benjamin Franklin Efq; late Delegate in Congrefs from the State of Pennsylvania, Presiden of the Convention of faid State, an Minifter Plenipotentiary from th United States of America at the Cour of Verfailles; and J. Jay, Efq; lat Prefident of Congrefs, and Chie Juftice of the State of New-York, an Minifter Plenipotentiary from th faid United States at the Court Madrid; to be Plenipotentiaries f the concluding and figning the pr fent Definitive Treaty; who, aft having reciprocally communicat their respective full powers, ha agreed upon and confirmed the f lowing articles. ART. I. His Britannic Maje acknowledges the faid United Stat viz. New Hampshire, Maffachufet Bay, Rhode Island, and Provider Plantations, Connecticut, New Yo New Jersey, Pennfylvania, Delawa Maryland, Virginia, North Caroli South Carolina, and Georgia, to Free, Sovereign and Independ States, that he treats with them fuch, and for himfelf, his heirs fucceffors, relinqu fhes all claims the government, propriety and te torial rights of the fame, and ev part thereof. II. And that all difputes w might arife in future on the subje the boundaries of the faid Un States may be prevented, it is he agreed and declared,that the follo are and fhall be their boundaries, From the North-weft angle of N Scotia, viz. that angle which is for by a line drawn due north from fource of St. Croix River to the E lands, along the faid Highlands which divide thofe Rivers that empty themfelves into the river St. Laurence, from thofe which fall into the atlantic ocean, to the north westermost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the 45th degree of north latitude; from thence by a line drawn due weft on fard latitude, until it ftrikes the river Irrquois or Cataraquay thence lines to be drawn due eaft from the points where the aforefaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and Eaft Florida on the other, fhall respectively touch the Bay of Funday and the Atlantic Ocean, excepting fuch iflands as now are or heretofore have been, within the limits of the faid province of Nova Scotia. all the other his Britannic Majefty's dominions in America; and that the American fishermen fhall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unfettled bays, harbours or creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen islands and Labrador, fo long as the fame fhall remain unfettled; but fo foon as the fame, or either of them fhall be fettied, it shall not be lawful for the faid fishermen to dry or cure fish at fuch fettlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors or poffeffors of the ground. III. It is agreed that the people of the United States fhall continue to enalong the middle of faid river into joy unmolefted the right to take fish Lake Ontario; through the middle of of every kind on the Grand Bank, faid lake until it ftrikes the communi- and on all the other Banks of Newcation by water between that lake and foundland; alfo in the Gulph of St. Lake Erie; thence along the middie Lawrence, and at all other places in of faid communication into Lake the fea, where the inhabitants of both Erie, through the middle of said lake, countries used at any time heretofore until it arrives at the water commu- to fish. And alfo, that the inhabitants nication between that lake and Lake of the United States fhall have liberty Huron, thence through the middle of to take fish of every kind on fuch part faid lake to the water communica i- of the coaft of Newfoundland as British on between that lake and Lake Supe- fifhermen fhall use (but not to dry or rior; thence through Lake Superior cure the fame on that iflind) and alnorthward of the Ifles Royal and Phe-fo on the coafts, hays and creeks of lipeaux to the Long Lake; thence through the middle of Long Lake,and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the faid Lake of the Woods; thence through the faid lake to the moft north "wertern point thereof,and from thence on a due weft courfe to the River Mifippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the faid River Miffioppi, until it fhall interlect the northermoft part of the 31ft degree of north latitude. South, by a line to be drawn due eaft from the determination of the line laft mention ed in the latitude of 31 degrees north of the Equator,to the middle of the River Apalachicola or Catochouche; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint River; thence frait to the head of St. Mary's River; and thence down along the middie of St. Mary's River to the Atlantic Ocean; Eaft, by a line to be drawn along the middle of St. Croix from its mouth in the Bay of Funday to its fource, and from its fource dire&ly north to the aforefaid Highlands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean, from thofe which fall into the River St. Laurence, comprehending all the islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between IV. It is agreed that the creditors on either fide hall meet with no lawful impediments to the recovery of the full value in fterling money of all bona fida debts heretofore contracted. V. It is agreed that Congrefs matt earneftly recommend it to the legiflatures of the refpe&tive flates, to provide for the reftitution of all eftates, rights and properties which have bee confifcated, belonging to real British fubjects; and alfo all the eftates, rights and properties of perfons refident in diftricts in the poffeffion of his Majefty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the United States; and that perfons of any other defcription fhall all have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the Thir tee |