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hies, and other our governors of our feveral provinces on the continent of North America, to grant, without fee or reward, to fuch reduced officers as have ferved in North America during the late war, and are actually refiding there, and fhall perfonally apply for the fame, the following quantities of land, fubject, at the expiration of ten years, to the fame quit-rents as other lands are fubject to in the province within which they are granted, as alfo fubject to the fame conditions of cultivation and improvement, viz.

To every perfon having the rank of a field officer, 5~00 acres. To every captain, 3000 acres. every fubaltern or ftaff of ficer, 2000 acres.

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To every private man 50 acres. We do likewife authorife and require the governors and commanders in chief of all our faid colonies upon the continent of North America to grant the like quantities of land, and upon the fame conditions, to fuch reduced officers of our navy of like rank, as ferved on board our fhips of war in North America at the times of the reduction of Louisbourg and Quebec in the late war, and who shall perfon ally apply to our refpective governors for fuch grants.

And whereas it is just and rea sonable, and effential to our intereft, and the fecurity of our colonies, that the feveral nations.or tribes of Indians, with whom we are connected, and who live under our protection, fhould not be mos lefted or difturbed in the poffeffion

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parts of our dominions and territories as, not having been co ded to, or purchased by us, are re

ferved to them, or any of them, as their hunting grounds; we do therefore, with the advice of our; privy council, declare it to be our royal will and pleafure, that no governor, or commander in chief, in any of our colonies of Quebec, Eaft Florida, or West Florida, dos prefume, upon any pretence whate”, ever, to grant warrants of furvey, or pass any patents for lands be-. yond the bounds of their respective governments, as described in their commiflions; as alfo that no governor or commander in chief of our other colonies or plantations in America, do prefume for the prefent, and until our further pleafure be known, to grant warrant of furvey, or pafs patents for any: lands beyond the heads or fources: of any of the rivers which fali into: the Atlantic Ocean from the welt or north west; or upon any lands whatever, which not having been. ceded to, or purchate by us, as aforesaid, are referved to the faid Indians, or any of them.

And we do further declare it to be our royal will and pleasure, for the prefent, as aforefaid, to referva under our fovereignty, protection: and dominion, for the use of the said Indians, all the land and territories not included within the li mits of our faid three new govern ments, or within the limits of the territory granted to the Hudfon's: Bay company; as alfo all the land and territories lying to the weftward of the fources of the ri vers which fall into the fea from the weft and north-weft as aforefaid; and we do hereby ftri&ly forbid, on pain of our displeasure, all our loving fubjects from making any purchases or fettlements, whatever, or taking poffeffion of any of the lands above referved

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pofe and we do, by the advice of our privy council, declare and enjoin, that the trade with the faid Indians fhall be free and open to all our fubjects whatever, provided that every person who may in

1.And we do further ftrictly enjoin and require all perfons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently feated themfelves up-cline to trade with the faid İndi

on any lands within the countries above defcribed, or upon any other lands, which not having been ceded to, of purchased by us, are ftill referved to the said Indians as aforefaid,- forthwith to remove themselves from fuch fettlements.

ans, do take out a licence for carrying on fuch trade, from the governor or commander in chief of any of our colonies refpectively, where fuch perfon shall reside, and also give fecurity to obferve such regulations as we fhall at any time think fit, by ourselves or commiffaries, to be appointed for this purpofe, to direct and appoint for the benefit of the faid trade : and we do hereby authorise, enjoin, and require the governors and commanders in chief of all our colonies refpectively, as well those under our immediate government, as thofe under the government and direction of proprietaries, to grant fuch licences without fee or reward, taking efpecial care to infert therein a condition that fuch licence fhall be void, and the fecurity forfeited, in cafe the person to whom the fame is granted, fhall refuse or neglect to obferve fuch regulations as we shall think proper to prefcribe as aforefaid.

And whereas great frauds and abuses have been committed in the purchafing lands of the Indians, to the great prejudice of our interefts, and to the great diffatisfaction of the faid Indians; in order therefore to prevent fuch iregularities for the future, and to the end that the Indians may be convinced of our justice and determined refolution to remove all reafonable caufe of difcontent, we do, with the advice of our privy council, ftrictly enjoin and require, that no private perfon do prefume to make any purchase from the faid Indians of any lands referved to the faid Indians within thofe parts of our colonies where we have thought proper to allow fettlement; but that if at any time any of the faid Indians should be in. clined to difpofe of the faid lands, the fame fhall be purchased only for us, in our name, at fome pub-direction of Indian affairs within lic meeting or affembly of the said the territories referved, as aforeIndians, to be held for that pur- faid, for the ufe of the faid›Indipofe by the governor or comman- ans, to feize and apprehend all der in chief of our colony refpec- perfons whatever, who ftanding tively within which they fhall lie: charged with treasons, mifprifions and in cafe they fhall lie within of treafon, murders, or other fethe limits of any proprietaries,lonies or mifdemeanours, fhall fly conformable to fuch directions and from juftice and take refuge in the inftructions as we or they fhall faid territory, and to fend them unthink proper to give for that pur-der a proper guard to the colony

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firous of giving all further juft and reasonable fatisfaction to his majefty's faid good friends and allies the republic of Genoa, and to maintain inviolably the peace and friendship fubfifting between his majesty and them, is hereby pleased, with the advice of his privy council, ftrictly to command all dition foever they be, that they his majefty's fubjects, of what conforbear to give or furnish aid, af

fiftance, countenance or fuccour, by any ways or means whatfoever, to any of the inhabitants of the ifland of Corfica, in rebellion against the faid moft ferene republic, upon pain, not only of his majefty's high difpleasure, but of fuffering fuch punishment as by law may be inflicted on fuch as wilfully violate his majesty's treaties, and infringe the peace and friendship fubfifting between his majefty and any foreign princes or

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rene republic of Genoa, hath by memorial to his majefty at this board reprefented, that the advanages the faid republic have lately gained over the rebellious faction in the kingdom of Corfica, are now become manifeft, as well by the happy fucceffes of their arms, as by the great number of inhabitants who daily return to their duty towards their lawful fovereign, and give the republic the greatest hopes of being able to re-establish peace and tranquility through that ifland, and which would have been already accomplished, if the chiefs of the rebels had not eluded it, by exciting the fpirit of revolt amongst the inhabitants, in hopes of drawing fuccours from foreign veffels; and therefore the faid minifter humbly requested, that his majefty would be pleased to give bed in the zoth article of the the most exprefs orders to all his treaty of peace, concluded between fubjects not to have or hold any her majefty the emprefs apoftolic correfpondence with the faid re- queen of Hungary and Bohemia, bels, nor to furnish them with any and his majesty the king of Pruffia, kind of fuccours whatfoever, agree-bearing date the 15th of February able to what was enjoined upon a 1763 that their faid majefties like occafion by order of his late agreed to include their allies and majefty in council, dated the roth friends in that treaty of peace, and of May 1753 his majefty, having that they referved to name them in taken the faid memorial into his a feparate act, which should be of royal confideration, and being de- the fame force as the faid principal

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Separate att figned by the plenipotentiaries of her majesty the empress queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and of his majesty the king of Pruffia, in pursuance of the 20th article of the treaty of peace concluded at Hubertfbourg, the 15th of February 1763. (See this treaty in our last volume, p. [247]. WHEREAS it has been ftipulat

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treaty, and fhould in like manner Be ratified by the high contracting parties, they would not defer carrying this ftipulation into execution and for that purpofe, her imperial majefly, apoftolic queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and his majesty the king of Pruffia, declare, that they do by name and exprefly include in the aforefaid treaty of peace of the 15th of February 1763.their allies and friends, viz. Oh the part of her majefty the emprefs apoftolic queen of Hungary and Bohemia, his majefty the most chriftian king, his majefty the king of Sweden, his majefty the king of Poland elector of saxony, and all the princes and flates of the empire, who are either her allies or her friends;--and on the part of his Pruffian maiefly, the king of Great Britain, elector of Brunfwick Lunenburg, the moft ferene duke of Brunfwick Lunenburgh, and the moft ferene landgrave of Heffe-Caffet.

The high contracting parties do likewife include in the aforefaid treaty of peace of the 15th of February 1763, her majefty the emprefs of all the Ruffias, in confer quence of the bonds of friendship which fubfift between her and the two high contracting parties, and of the intereft which her majesty has declared that fhe takes in the re-establishment of the tranquility of Germany.

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In witness whereof, we the plenipotentiaries of her majefty the emprefs queen, and of his majefly the king of Pruffia, have, by vir tue of our full powers and inftruc tions, figned the prefent act, which fhall have the fame force, as if it was inferted word for word in the treaty of peace of the 15th of February 1763, and fhall be ra

tified in like manner by the two high contracting parties. Done at Drefden the 12th of March, and at Berlin the zoth, in the year 1763. Ewald Frederic dé Hertzberg. The exemplar of the court of Vienna is figned,

Henry Gabriell de Collenbach, Although this feparate act be of itself of no great importacce, yet it is remarkable, as it fhews that either the court of Vienna, or that of Berlin, were not, on the 15th of February, in fo good an humour with their allies, as they afterwards came to be on the 12th of March; and if we compare the 13th article of the preliminaries between France and us, with what' afterwards happened, we may perhaps guefs at the reafon of their not naming their friends and allies in the treaty of peace which they concluded on the 15th of February.

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tween the king of Sardinia, the Moft Chriftian king, and the Catholic king, concerning the preten fions of his Sardinian majefty to the duchy of Placentia. ART. I.

THEIR moft chriftian and catholic majefties acknowledge again, in favour of the king of Sardinia, the right of reverfion to the fovereignty of the city of Placentia, and to the part of the Placentine as far as the river Nura, as mentioned in the treaty of Aixla Chapelle, in cafe of failure of the male line of the infant don Philip, as alfo in cafe this prince or his heirs fhould fucceed to one of the crowns of his family.

If. Their most chriftian and ca tholic majefties guaranty the aforefaid reverfion against all powers that might attempt to oppofe it.

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III. Till fuch time as the reverfion may happen, his Sardinian majefty thall enjoy the fame annual revenue (deducting the charges of government) which the city and territory mentioned in the

this fhall not be confidered as of any confequence, nor be drawn into a precedent.

"ar- Subftance of a memorial delivered on the 16th of July, by the chancellor of Ruffia to the Polifb refident at Peterburgh.

ticle would yield were he in actual poffeffion thereof: to which end his most christian majesty will remit to his Sardinian majefty the capital fum of the revenue of the faid territories.

IV. Whenever the reverfion happens, the king of Sardinia is to reftore the capital fum mentioned in the preceding article.

V. The king of Sardinia fhall enjoy the equivalent for the revenues of the Placentine, from the 10th of March of the prefent year, being the day of exchanging the ratifications of the treaty of France and Spain, with England; agreeable to the moft chriftian king's letter to his Sardinian majefty, dated the 5th of February

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VI. The prefent convention fhall be communicated to the other powers concerned in the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, and the three contracting monarchs will require their guaranty thereof.

VII. The ratifications of the prefent convention fhall be exchanged within a month, or fooner, if poffible.

Done at Paris the 10th of June, 1763, figned by the Baili Selar de Breille, on the part of Sar-, dinia, Choiseuil duke de Praf lin, for France, and the mar quis Grimaldi for Spain. There are two feparate articles, the first of which is only matter of form, about titles in the full powers of the minifters; and the other fti pulates, that though the convention is made in the French tongue,

N this memorial herimperial majesty first sets forth her great love of peace, and how careful the has been to preferve it; and then proceeds thus: "Filled with thefe fentiments, it is with regret, that the emprefs fees his Polish majefty follow different maxims with regard to her, and make no return to her friendly proceedings but by pro ceedings directly oppofite.

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In the first place, in the affair of Courland, her imperial majesty, attentive to every thing that concern ed the dignity of the king of Poland, has not ceased to claim his juftice, in which the always placed the greatest confidence.

Secondly, the has not only paid all poflibe regard to the reprefentations made to her, touching the da mage which the Poles might have fuffered by the paffage of the Ruffian troops, but even at this moment the waits only for naming of commiffaries by the republic, to fettle and give orders for indemnification.

Her imperial majefty is not content with convincing his Polish majefty of her friendship in those two general obje@s which regard the re fpective eftates, fhe has no lefs at heart the giving proofs of her perfonal regard for his majefty and his family. She has already interefted herfelf, and will fill intereft, herfelf, at every favourable opportu nity, to procure a proper establish

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