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upon a point wherein the national honor is so deeply concerned. No. 

 6 is the rough draft of a letter which I also wrote upon the same sub- 

 ject. Neither of these letters had been answered when I left Paris. 

 But Mr. Oswald had seen the intended answer to his letter, which 

 was, that the refugees should have compensation, provided Great 

 Britain would compensate for all the towns, houses, barns &c., de- 

 stroyed during the war. 



Upon the return of a messenger to Paris, with your definitive 

 answer if not very repugnant to the terms now sent, the American 

 Commissioners will, I doubt not, immediately sign the treaty, so that 

 you may have it in London before the meeting of Parliament. 

 They would not stipulate for the quiet evacuation of New 

 85 York, on account of their treaty with France, which provides 

 that America shall not make a separate peace or truce; and 

 they pretend to fear that their writing upon such a point, would be 

 construed into a proposition for a truce. But they express them- 

 selves to be confident, that Washington, upon sight of this provisional 

 treaty, signed by them, will not obstruct the evacuation. 

 I have the honor &c 



H. STRACHEY. 



R l Hon ble THO" TOWNSHEND 



&C&C &C, 



Enclosure No. 1: New Terms of Treaty, 5 November. 



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 behalf of 

 His said Majesty on the one part; and Benjamin Franklin, John 

 Jay,andJohnAdams.three of the Commissioners of the said States, 

 for treating of peace with the Commissioners 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 of 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 form the articles of the 

 proposed treaty on such principles of liberal equality and reciprocity 

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

 such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two coun- 

 tries may be established as to promise, and secure to both perpetual 

 peace and harmony. 



His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz.: 

 New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence 

 Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. 

 Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and 



