7 glory, the virtue, and the heavenly prerogative of making a great people happy under a mild, uncorrupt, and able government; and we include in our wishes the lafting fecurity and fplendor of your royal houfe; that warm attachment and fidelity in your fubjects which only the fenfe of their own happinefs can infpire. And may that happinefs every day increafe, by a gene ral imitation of thofe amiable dometlic virtues of which your majefty and your royal confort have given the world fo fair an example. The Address of the Proteftant Dif fenting Minifters in and about the Cities of London and Westminster. Moft Gracious Sovereign, WE, your Majefty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the proteftant diffenting minifters in and about the cities of London and Westminster, beg leave to approach your royal perfon with our warmeft congratulations on the late fignal interpofition of divine providence in favour of your majesty's invaluable life: an event which has afforded joy to all your majesty's faithful fubjects, and to none more than the protestant diffenters, who look up with affectionate reverence to the diftinguifhed virtues of their fovereign, and who feel themfelves happy in the enjoyment of their civil and religious liberties, which have received fo memorable a confirmation and enlargement fince your majefly's acceffion to the throne of thefe kingdoms. To that Great Being, whofe arm fo graciously fhielded your majefty's perfon in the moment of danwe have offered our most ger, grateful acknowledgments; fervently praying, that the like fenfe of 6 the divine interference which your ma efty devoutly feels, might be deeply impreffed on the hearts of all your fubjects. Permit us, Sir, to add, that our joy on this occafion is greatly heightened, by reflecting that the horrid ftroke your majcity fo happily efcaped was guided not by the hand of premeditated malice, but of compaffionable infanity; the repofe which this confideration justly creates in your majesty's breast and that of your royal confort, cannot fail of affording the higheft fatisfaction to your people, whofe happinefs is intimately connected with that of their fovereign. this opportunity of affuring your With great pleasure we embrace majefty of our affectionate and inviolable attachment to your perfon and government; nor will we ceafe Sir, to offer our most ardent prayer to Almighty God, that your life may be protracted, under the fmiles of Providence, to the most distant period; and that the crown your majefty received from your illuftrious ancestors, may defcend, adorned with all their and your princely virtues, to your latest posterity. father of his people; and we are confoled only in believing that it proceeded from infanity of mind rather than depravity of heart. Truly grateful for the effential benefits we have received during your majefty's aufpicious reign, we must feel ourselves particularly interested in every circumftance that regards the welfare of the beft of fovereigns; and permit us to affure your majesty of our utmost. abhorrence and deteftation of every attempt to disturb your private peace, or the public tranquillity of your dominions. We fupplicate the Supreme Be ing to grant to your maje y a long and happy reign; and to continue the crown of thefe realms to your illustrious houfe unto its lateft poiterity. The Addrefs of the Superiors of the Roman Catholick Clergy of the Province of Munfter. May it please your majesty, WE, your majey's most faithful fubjects, the fuperiors of the Roman Catholic Clergy in the province of Muntier, having offered up our fervent thanks to the Almighty God for your majefty's happy escape from the horrid attempt made on your majesty's most facred perfon, prefume, in all humility, to prefent, at the foot of your royal throne, in the name of the Roman Catholic Clergy of this province, our most dutiful and loyal congratulations on fuch a fignal interpofition of divine providence. Whilft in this expreflion of our duty to your majefty, we join in the univerfal exultation of all ranks of our fellow-fubjects for the prefervation of a well-beloved fovereign, we, your majesty's Roman Catho lic fubjects, feel an additional joy from the grateful remembrance we conftantly have, that whatever happy change has been made in our fituation in this kingdom is chiefly owing to your majeity's paternal attention to us. Our joy, may it please your majefty, would have been as complete on the prefent occafion as any human event could make it, but for the allay it receives in the affliction brought upon us by the tumultuous meetings of fome of the lowest class in this province. Yet, at the fame time that we bemoan the unwarrantable exceffes of a misguided rabble, it is no fmall comfort to us to think, that we have not been wanting in what depended on us to prevent and to remedy thefe evils. Our conftant endeavours to promote religion, peace, and good order have not been altogether fruitlefs; whatever be the guilt of the deluded people who now disturb the public tranquillity, we have the heartfelt fatisfaction of being convinced that not a fhadow of difaffection to your majefty's perfon or government is imputable to them. We hope that the prudent meafures, the firm yet merciful exertions adopted by thofe entrusted here with your majefty's authority, will be efficient to put a stop to the licentious mifdeeds of an unruly multude, and to provide eficctually against a repetition of them. We, on our parts, fhall continue to employ our most zealous efforts to imprefs thofe under our influence with a fenfe of confcientious fubordination to the laws, and to exhort them ever to follow that peaceful, induftrious, upright line of conduct, which alone can become them, and which the religion they profefs, as well as their gratitude, dictate to be due to the juf rice and mildness of your majesty's government. May the Almighty God, by whom kings reign, long preferve your majefty, amidit the enjoyment of every defirable bleffing, to be an example, from your royal virtues, to the rulers of the earth, and to be, from the unrivalled fuccefs of your government, the comfort and the happinefs of your people. We are, may it pleafe your majefty, with the most inviolable at tachment and fubmiffive gratitude, your majefty's most loyal, moft dutiful, and moft obedient fubjects, the Superiors of the Roman Catholic Clergy of the province of Munfter. The Addrefs of the Prefident and Fellows of the Royal College of Phyficians in London. May it please your Majefly, WE, your majefty's moit faithful and loyal fubjects, the prefident and fellows of the Royal College of Physicians in London, beg leave to approach your majetty, with all humility, to exprefs our duty and unfeigned joy for your majefty's happy deliverance from the danger of a most defperate attempt on your facred perfon; an attempt, which only infanity of mind could have fuggefted, and which only the divine interpofition could have fruftrated. Glory, Sir, refults from danger. It is in fituations of furprize and alarm, that the genuine and noble qualities of exalted minds are eminently difplayed and distinguished. The collected firmnefs and compofure with which your majefly met the horrid attack, and the tendernefs and compaffion exerted in the fame critical moment for the wretch 8 ed affailant, are recent proofs of that magnanimity and benevolence, which have ever characterised your mjefty, and endeared you to the hearts of a brave and generous people. Whilt all ranks and orders of men are zealo fly profeffing these fentiments, it may not mifbecome us, Sir, to bear teftimony to your more private and perfonal excellencies. Courts and palaces have rarely been the fcenes of abftemioufnefs and temperance. That your majesty, amidit all the incitements. to gratification and indulgence, fhould steadily perfevere in an unexampled forbearance, is at once an upbraiding remonftrance against the unhappily prevailing luxury, and the frongeft fecurity for the prefervation of your health, for the able life, and confequently of the long continuance of your inettinnational happiness. May the merciful hand of Providence be ever extended over you, for protecting your facred perfon from outrage and violence! We rely with perfect confidence on your majetty's habitual and determined virtue, as the fureft human means of averting from you the ordinary calamities which are incident to our doubts, mifconceptions, or other caufes of difputes between the fubjects on the frontiers of the two monarchie, efpecially in diftant countries, as are thofe in America, have thought proper to fettle, with all poffible good faith, by a new convention, the points which might one day or other be productive of fuch inconveniencies, as the ex perience of former times has very often fhewn. To this end, the king of Great Britain has named the most noble and most excelent lord Francis, baron Ofborne of Kiveton, Marquis of Carmarthen, his Britannic majefty's privy counfellor, and principal fecretary of ftate for the departineat of foreign affairs, &c. &c. &c. and the catholic king has likewife authorized Don Bernardo del Campo, knight of the noble order of Charles the Third, fecretary of the fame order, fecretary of the fupreme council of ftate, and his minifter plenipotentiary to the king of Great Britain; who having communicated to each other their refpective full powers, prepared in due form, have agreed upon the following articles. Art. I. His Britannic majefty's fubjects, and the other colonists who have hitherto enjoyed the protection of England, thall evacuate the country of the Mofquitos, as well as the continent in general, and the iflands adjacent, without exception, fituated beyond the line herein after defcribed, as what ought to be the frontier of the extent of territory granted by his Catholic majefty to the English, for the ufes fccified in the third article of the prefent convention, and in addition to the country already granted to them in virtue of the tipulations agreed upon by the commiffaries of the two crowns in 3783. Art. II. The Catholic king, to prove, on his fide, to the king of Great Britain, the fincerity of his fentiments of friendfhip towards his faid majefty, and the British nation, will grant to the English more extentive limits than thote fpecified in the laft treaty of peace: and the faid limits of the lands added by the prefent convention fhall for the future be understood in the manner following. The English line, beginning from the fea, fhall take the centre of the river Sibun or Jabon, and continue up to the fource of the faid river; from thence it fhall crofs in a frait line the interinediate land, till it interfects the river Wallis; and by the centre of the fame river, the faid line fhall de feend to the point where it will meet the line already fettled and marked out by the commiffaries of the two crowns in 178: which limits, following the continuation of the faid line, fhall be obferved as forme ly ftipulated by the definitive treaty. Art. III. Although no other advantages have hitherto been in question, except that of cutting wood for dying, yet his catholic majefty as a greater proof of his difpontion to oblige the king of Great Britain, will grant to the English the liberty of cutting all other wood, without even excepting mahogany, as well as gathering all the fruits, or produce of the earth, purely natural and uncultivated, which may, befides being carried away in their natural flate, become an object of utility or of commerce, whether for food or for manufactures: but it is exprefsly agreed, that this tipulation is never to be used as a pretext for eftablifhing in that country any plantation of fugar, coffee, cacao, ør other other like articles, or any fabric or manufacture, by means of mills or other machines whatfoever (this restriction however does not regard the ufe of faw mills for cutting or otherwife preparing the wood), fince all the lands in queftion being indifputably acknowledged to helong of right to the crown of Spain, no fettlements of that kind, or the population which would follow, could be allowed. The English fhall be permitted to tranfport and convey all fuch wood, and other produce of the place, in its natural and unculti vated state, down the rivers to the fea, but without ever going beyond the limits which are prefcribed to them by the ftipulations above granted, and without thereby taking an opportunity of afcending the faid rivers beyond their bounds, into the countries belonging to Spain. Art. IV. The English fhall be permitted to occupy the fmall ifland known by the names of Catina, St. George's Key, or Cayo Cafina, in confideration of the circumstance of that part of the coafts oppofite to the faid ifland being looked upon as fubject to dangerous diforders; but this permiffion is only to be made ufe of for purposes of real utility and as great abufes, no lefs contrary to the intentions of the British government than the effential interests of Spain, might arife from this permiffion, it is here ftipulated, as an indifpenfable condition, that no fortification, or work of defence whatever, fhall at any time be erected there, nor any body of troops pofted, nor any piece of artillery kept there; and in order to verify with good faith the accomplishment of this condition fine qua non (which might be infringed by individuals, without the knowledge of the British government) a Spanish officer or commiffary, accompanied by an English commiffary or officer, duly authorized, thall be admitted, twice a year, to examine into the real fituation of things. Art. V. The English nation fhall enjoy the liberty of refitting their merchant hips in the foutherntriangle included between the Point of Cayo Calina, and the cluster of fmall islands which are fituated oppofite that part of the coaft occupied by the cutters, at the distance of eight leagues from the river Wallis, feven from Cayo Cafina, and three from the river Sibun, a place which has always been found well adapted to that purpofe. For which end, the edifices and ftorchoufes abfolutely neceffary for that fervice fhall be allowed to be built; but in this conceflion is alfo included the exprefs condition of not erecting fortifications there at any time, or ftationing troops, or conftructing any military works; and in like manner it shall not be permitted to ftation any flips of war there, or to contruct an arfenal, or other building, the object of which might be the formation of a naval etablishment. At. VI. It is alfo ftipulated, that the English may freely and peaceably catch fish on the coast of the country affigned to them by the laft treaty of peace, as alfo of that which is added to them by the prefent convention; but without going beyond their boundaries, and confining themfelves within the distance fpecified in the preceding article. Art. VII. All the restrictions fpecified in the laft treaty of 1783, for the entire prefervation of the right of the Spanish fovereignty |