Lord Howe was joined by the following ships whilst on this cruize.

Note 328. Lift of Dutch Ships at the Texel.

(See Note 325.)

Note 329. Lift of the Ships that failed from Spithead under Vice-Admiral Milbank, and arrived at the Downs, the

Note 330. Lift of the Squadron that failed from Plymouth, September 2d, under the command of Commodore Elliot.

Note 331. French account of the Hebe French frigate, and Rainbow, commanded by Captain Trollope.

The frigate L'Hebe, commanded by the Chevalier de Vigny, Capt. de Vaiffeau, failed from St. Malo the third of September. At break of day on the 4th, a fhip appeared in fight, which from fuperior failing foon came up with the Hebe. During the chace, the tiller of the Hebe's beam being cut through with a shot, fhe presented herself athwart to the enemy, who, in that pofition, totally difabled her. The Chevalier de Vigny, seeing no probability of elcaping the fuperior force with which he was engaged, ftruck his flag, and furrendered the King's frigate to the English fhip the Rainbow, which was pierced for 46 guns, and carrying artillery of an unexampled fize. She mounted 20 guns, fixty-eight pounders, in her lower battery; 20 forty-two pounders in her fecond battery; and fix thirty-two pounders on her quarter-deck and forecastle.

Note 332. Reinforcements of Ships and Troops defigned to have been fent to Admiral Pigot, and General Campbell at Jamaica.

Note 333. Lift of the Squadron under the command of Sir J. Jervis, fuppofed to be defigned against the Spanish Settlements in South America.

N. B. The above fquadron was to be accompanied by a body of troops, commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir John Dalling, having under him Major-Generals Charles Grey, and Edward Smith.

Note 334. Lift of the Squadron that failed for the Eaft Indies, from Spithead, January 18th, 1783.

Three fhips of the line were ordered for this fervice; but on figning the Peace, they were countermanded.

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Note 336. Preliminary Articles of Peace, when Hoftilities were to cease, and the Definitive Treaty.

Tranflation of the Preliminary Articles of Peace between his Britannic Majefty and the moft Chriftian King, figned at Verfailles, the 20th day of January 1783.

IN THE NAME OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY!

The King of Great Britain, and the Most Christian King, equally animated with a defire of putting an end to the calamities of a deftructive war, and of re-establishing union and good understanding between them, as neceffary for the good of mankind in general, as for that of their respective kingdoms, ftates, and fubjects, have named for that purpose, viz. on the part of his Britannic Majefty, Mr Alleyne Fitz Herbert, Minifter-plenipotentiary of his faid Majesty the King of Great Britain: and on the part of his most Christian Majefty, Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, Councillor in all his Councils, Commander of his orders, Councillor of State, and of the Commands and Finances of his faid Majefty, for the department of Foreign Affairs.

Who, after having duly communicated to each other their full powers in good form, have agreed on the following Preliminary Articles.

ARTICLE I. As foon as the preliminaries fhall be figned and ratified, fincere friendship shall be re-established between his Britannic Majefty, and his Moft Chriftian Majefty, their kingdoms, ftates, and fubjects, by fea and by land, in all parts of the world: orders fhall be fent to the armies and fquadrons, as well as to the subjects of the two powers, to ftop all hoftilities, and to live in the most fect union, forgetting what has paffed, of which their fovereigns give them the order and example: and, for the execution of this article, fea-paffes fhall be given on each fide, for the ships which fhall be dispatched to carry the news of it to the poffeffions of the faid powers.

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II. His Majefty, the King of Great Britain, fhall preferve in full right the island of Newfoundland, and the adjacent islands, in the fame manner as the whole was ceded to him by the treaty of Utrecht, fave the exceptions which fhall be ftipulated by the fifth article of the present treaty,

III. His moft Chriftian Majefty, in order to prevent quarrels which have hitherto arifen between the two nations of England and France, renounces the right of fishing, which belongs to him by virtue of the faid article of the treaty of Utrecht, from Cape Bonavista to Cape St. John, fituated at the eastern coaft of Newfoundland, in about fifty degrees of north latitude; whereby the French fishery shall commence at the faid Cape St. John, fhall go round by the north, and going down to the western coast of the island of Newfoundland,

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foundland, shall have for boundary the place called Cape Raye, fituated in forty-feven degrees, fifty minutes latitude.

IV. The French fishermen fhall enjoy the fishery affigned them by the foregoing article, as they have a right to enjoy it by virtue of the treaty of Utrecht.

V. His Britannic Majefty will cede, in full right, to his most Chriftian Majefty, the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.

VI. With regard to the right of fishing in the gulf of St Lawrence, the French fhall continue to enjoy it conformably to the fifth article of the treaty of Paris.

VII. The King of Great Britain shall restore to France the illand of St. Lucia, and fhall cede and guaranty to her that of Tobago.

VIII. The moft Chriftian King shall restore to Great Britain the islands of Grenada and the Grenadines, St. Vincent, Dominica, St. Christopher's, Nevis, and Montferrat; and the fortreffes of these iflands, conquered by the arms of Great Britain and by thofe of France, fhall be restored in the fame condition in which they were when the conqueft was made. Provided that the term of eighteen months, to be computed from the time of the ratification of the definitive treaty, fhall be granted to the refpective fubjects of Great Britain and France, who may have fettled in the faid islands, and in other places which fhall be restored by the definitive treaty, to fell their eftates, recover their debts, and to tranfport their effects, and retire without being reftrained on account of their religion, or on any other whatsoever, except in cases of debt, or of criminal profecution.

IX. The King of Great Britain fhall cede and guaranty in full right to his moft Chriftian Majefty the river of Senegal, and its dependencies, with the forts of St Louis, Podor, Galam, Arguin, and Portendic. His Britannic Majefty fhall restore likewise the island of Gorée, which shall be given up in the condition in which it was when the British arms took poffeffion of it.

X. The most Christian King ball, on his fide, guaranty to his Majefty the King of Great Britain the poffeffion of Fort James, and of the river Gambia.

XI. In order to prevent all difcuffion in that part of the world, the two courts fhall agree, either by the definitive treaty, or by a feparate act, upon the boundaries to be fixed to their respective poffeffions.

The gum trade fhall be carried on in future, as the English and French nations carried it on before the year 1755.

XII. In regard to the rest of the coafts of Africa, the subjects of both powers thall continue to frequent them, according to the cuftom which has prevailed hitherto.

XIII. The King of Great Britain shall restore to his Moft Chriftian Majefty all the establishments which belonged to him at the commencement of the prefent war, on the coaft of Oriza, and in Bengal, with the liberty to furround Chandernagore with a ditch

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