of a month, or fooner if poffible, to be computed from the day of the fignature of the prefent treaty. In witnefs whereof, We the under-written, their Ambaffadors Extraordinary, and Minifters Plenipotentiary, have figned with our hands, in their name, and in virtue of our full powers, the prefent Definitive Treaty, and have caufed the feal of our arms to be put thereto. I. Done at Paris the tenth of February, 1763. (L. S.) BEDFORD, C. P. S. (L. S.) CHOISEUL, DUC DE PRASLIN. (L. S.) EL MARQ, DE GRIMALDI. SOME SEPARATE ARTICLES. OME of the titles made ufe of by the contracting powers, tracting powers, either in the full powers, and other acts, during the courfe of the negociation, or in the preamble of the prefent treaty, not being generally acknowledged; it has been agreed, that no prejudice fhall ever refult therefrom to any of the faid contracting parties, and that the titles, taken or omitted, on either fide, on occafion of the faid negociation, and of the present treaty, shall not be cited, or quoted as a precedent. II. It has been agreed and determined, that the French language, made ufe of in all the copies of the prefent treaty, fhall not become an example, which may be alledged, or made a precedent of, or prejudice, in any manner, any of the contracting powers; and that they fhall conform themselves, for the future, to what has been obferved, and ought to be obferved, with regard to, and on the part of, Powers who are ufed, and have a right, to give and to receive copies of like treaties in another language than French; the prefent treaty having ftill the fame force and effect, as if the aforefaid cuftom had been therein obferved. III. Though the King of Portugal has not figned the prefent definitive treaty, their Britannic, moft Chriftian, and Catholic Majefties, acknowledge, nevertheless, that his moft Faithful Majefty is formally included therein, as a contracting party, and as if he had exprefly figned the faid treaty: Confequently, their Britannic, moft Chriftian, and Catholic Majefties, respectively and conjointly promife to his moft Faithful Majefty, in the most express and most binding manner, the execution of all and every the claufes, contained in the faid treaty, on his act of acceffion. The prefent feparate articles fhall have the fame force as if they were inferted in the above treaty. In witnefs whereof, we the under-written Ambaffadors Extraordinary, and Minifters Plenipotentiary of their Britannic, moft Chriftian, and Catholic Majefties, have figned the prefent feparate articles, and have caused the feal of our arms to be put thereto. Done at Paris the 10th of February, 1763. (L. S.) CHOISEUL, DUC DE PRASLIN. Declaration of his moft Chriftian Majefty's Plenipotentiary, with regard to the debts due to the Canadians. THE King of Great Britain, having defired, that the payment of the letters of exchange and bills, which had been delivered to the Ca nadians nadians for the neceflaries furnished to the French troops, fhould be fecured, His moft Chriftian Majefty, entirely difpofed to render to every one that juftice which is legally due to them, has declared, and does declare, That the said bills, and letters of exchange, fhall be punctually paid, agreeably to a liquidation made in a convenient time, according to the diftance of the places, and to what fhall be poffible; taking care, however, that the bills, and letters of exchange, which the French fubjects may have at the time of this declaration, be not confounded with the bills and letters of exchange, which are in the poffeffion of the new subjects of the King of Great Britain. In witnefs whereof, we the under-written Minifter of his moft Chriftian Majefty, duly authorised for this purpose, have figned the prefent declaration, and caused the seal of our arms to be put thereto. Done at Paris the tenth of February, 1763. CHOISEUL, DUC DE PRASLIN. (L. S.) Declaration of his Britannic Majefty's Ambaffador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, with regard to the limits of Bengal in the East Indies. WE E the under-written Ambaffador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the King of Great Britain, in order to prevent all fubject of difpute on account of the limits of the dominions of the Subah of Bengal, as well as of the coaft of Coromandel and Orixa, declare, in the name and by order of his faid Britannic Majefty, that the faid dominions of the Subah of Bengal fhall be reputed not to extend farther than Yanaon exclufively, and that Yanaon fhall be be confidered as included in the North part the coaft of Coromandel or Orixa. In witness whereof, &c. Done at Paris the tenth of February, 1763. BEDFORD, C. P. S. (L. S.) of (His Britannic, moft Chriftian, and Catholic Majefties, full powers to their respective Minifters Plenipotentiary, with the acceffion of his moft Faithful Majefty, his full Power, and declaration of his Minifter (importing that no confequence fhall be drawn from the alternative obferved on the parts of the King of Great Britain, and the most Christian King, with the moft Faithful King, in the act of acceffion of the Court of Portugal) are all the other papers that relate to this important tranfaction; but are here omitted, as containing only matters of mere form.] Some Reflections on the above Treaty of Peace. THIS Review would be incomplete, did we not indulge our readers and ourfelves in a few reflections upon the probable confequences, which the glorious fucceffes it contains, may produce. France, the old and natural enemy of Great Britain, is now fenfible of one truth, which, however feemingly inconfiftent, is founded on reafon and experience; we mean, that Great Britain is ftronger, fighting by herfelf and for herself, than if half Europe were her allies. In the wars of King William and Queen Anne, she fought in the quarrels of nations, who were a dead weight upon her arms; her motions were directed by theirs; and, though under the Duke of of Marlborough, fhe always was victorious, yet the fruits of her fucceffes were loft, through the jarring, but private, interefts of her allies, who left the greateft burden of the war upon her fhoulders, though leaft concerned in its event. In the next war with France, that in fupport of the Auftrian fucceffion in the perfon of her prefent Imperial Majefty, it was evident fhe muft have been victorious, had it not been for the Dutch and German confederates; the treacherous cowardice of the former loft her the battle of Fontenoy, as the felfifh haughtiness of the other did that of Lafeldt. Even in the war, of which we have juft clofed the review, though Great Britain paid all, the may be faid to have fought all, and scarcely a glorious action happened through the whole, that was not performed by her natives; but when we fay this, we except the great exploits of his Pruffian Majefty. The obfervation we have made holds ftill more ftrongly in her naval operations. How many difgraceful blows did fhe receive by fea from France, when her fleets were united with thofe of the Dutch; while in the late war, tho' fhe ftood fingle, every action at fea, except that doubtful one under Admiral Byng, proved decifive in her favour. The confequence is, that France, humbled by fo many repeated blows, has relinquished the ambitious, but artful schemes, which he had been forming for above half a century against the British fettlements in North America. Had these proved fuccessful, all intercourse between the British planters and the natives must have been entirely cut off; the French would have had the favages of their own training, as well as in their intereft, and would have employed the natural ferocity of thofe bar barians, |