118 APPENDIX TO BRITISH COUNTER CASE. 



> in the General Treaty, and also a Copy of a Paper printed 

 Congress in consequence of General Washington's communica- 



Article 



by the 



tion of that Letter to him. 



No. 72. 1782, October 2: Extract from letter, Mr. Oswald to Mr. 



Townshend. 



PARIS 2d October 1782 



SIR I had the honour of your letters of the 20th and 24th Septem- 

 ber; the last accompanying His Majesty's new Commission, altered 

 as desired. Upon receipt, I produced it to the American Commis- 

 sioners, and they were entirely satisfied therewith. 



I have also to advise that yesterday I delivered to them a copy 

 of said Commission after its being compared with the original, and 

 certified by me; and in exchange received from them a copy of their 



Commission 



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P. S. . . . . Drying fish in Newfoundland. I find is to be claimed 

 as a privilege in common, we being allowed the same on their shores. 

 I did not think it proper to say much on this subject at present, 

 and wish that granting this freedom may be found to be of no material 

 loss to England being afraid if refused, it may be a great loss in 

 other things. 



No. 73. 178% , October 5: Articles of the Treaty proposed to be con- 

 cluded between His Majesty and the United States of America. 



ARTICLES agreed upon by and between Richard Oswald Esq., the 

 Commissioner of His Britannic Majesty for treating of peace with 

 the Commissioners of the United States of America on the behalf 

 of his said Majesty on the one part. And Benjamin Franklin, 

 John Jay of the Commissioners of the said States for 



treating of peace with the Commissioner of his said Majesty on 

 their behalf, on the other part ; to be inserted in, and to constitute 

 the treaty of peace proposed to be concluded between the Crown of 

 Great Britain and the said United States. But which treaty is not 

 to be concluded until His Britannic Majesty shall have agreed 

 to the terms of a peace between France and Britain, proposed 

 or accepted by His Most Christian Majesty; and shall be ready 

 to conclude with him such treaty accordingly. It being the duty 

 and intention of the United States not to desert their Ally, but 

 faithfully, and in all things, to abide by and fulfil their engage- 

 ments with His Most Christian Majesty. 



Whereas reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience are found 

 by experience to form the only permanent foundation of peace and 

 friendship between States, It is agreed to frame the articles of the 

 proposed treaty on such principles of liberal equality and reciprocity, 

 as that partial advantages (those seeds of discord) being excluded, 



