The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Band 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 |
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... resolve to - day by a majority for a delay of four months longer for the convoys of ship timber . All at once Haarlem ... resolution can not be passed till next week . It will be such , moreover , that the court of France will regard it ...
... resolve to - day by a majority for a delay of four months longer for the convoys of ship timber . All at once Haarlem ... resolution can not be passed till next week . It will be such , moreover , that the court of France will regard it ...
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... resolution of the 18th of November as to the re- striction of convoy ( from which they wished then to exclude ship tim- ber ) , but would suspend the adoption of the resolution as to the exten- sion of these convoys until the time when ...
... resolution of the 18th of November as to the re- striction of convoy ( from which they wished then to exclude ship tim- ber ) , but would suspend the adoption of the resolution as to the exten- sion of these convoys until the time when ...
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... resolved anything to- day . The answer proposed by the admiralty was so obscure and am- biguous , that Amsterdam has given notice that she will protest again that it was only necessary to communicate to France the resolution of the 26th ...
... resolved anything to- day . The answer proposed by the admiralty was so obscure and am- biguous , that Amsterdam has given notice that she will protest again that it was only necessary to communicate to France the resolution of the 26th ...
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... Resolved unanimously , That as neither France nor these United States may of right , so these United States will not ... resolution of Congress in answer to the representations which I had the honor to make to it on the 5th and 10th . I ...
... Resolved unanimously , That as neither France nor these United States may of right , so these United States will not ... resolution of Congress in answer to the representations which I had the honor to make to it on the 5th and 10th . I ...
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... resolution relative to M. Duportail † and the officers who accompany him . They feel much honored by the praises which their services and conduct have merited , as well as by the confi- dence which Congress shows in them , by desiring ...
... resolution relative to M. Duportail † and the officers who accompany him . They feel much honored by the praises which their services and conduct have merited , as well as by the confi- dence which Congress shows in them , by desiring ...
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Seite 89 - Lawrence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part and East Florida on the other shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic ocean...
Seite 160 - ... forever against all other powers, to wit: The United States to his most Christian Majesty, the present possessions of the crown of France in America, as well as those which it may acquire by the future treaty of peace : and his most Christian Majesty guarantees on his part to the United States, their liberty, sovereignty and independence, absolute and unlimited...
Seite 159 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Seite 300 - The two parties guarantee mutually from the present time and forever against all other powers, to wit: The United States to His Most Christian Majesty, the present possessions of the Crown of France in America, as well as those which it may acquire by the future treaty of peace...
Seite 489 - Madrid, that the United States extend to the westward no farther than settlements were permitted by the royal proclamation bearing date the day of , 1763. On the second, that the United States do not consider themselves as having any right to navigate the river Mississippi, no territory belonging to them being situated thereon.
Seite 159 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Seite 207 - A variety of others have been made since of different sizes; some to be set in the lids of snuff boxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings ; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon...
Seite 489 - On the fourth, that the lands lying on the east side of the Mississippi, whereon the settlements were prohibited by the aforesaid proclamation, are possessions of the crown of Great Britain, and proper objects against which the arms of Spain may be employed, for the purpose of making a permanent conquest for the Spanish crown.
Seite 209 - ... else will do when excessively plenty ; and that people are still as easy nearly in their circumstances, as when a pair of gloves might be had for half a crown. The war indeed may in some degree raise the prices of goods, and the high taxes which are necessary to support the war may make our frugality necessary; and, as I am always preaching that doctrine, I cannot in conscience or in decency encourage the contrary, by my example, in furnishing my children with foolish modes and luxuries.
Seite 3 - The policy as well as the benevolence of Great Britain have thus far checked the extremes of war, when they tended to distress a people still considered as their fellow subjects, and to desolate a country shortly to become again a source of mutual advantage.