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Whereas provisional articles were signed at Paris on the thir-
teenth Day of November last, between the Ministers Plenipotentiary
of the United States of America for treating of Peace, and the
Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, to be inserted in,
and to constitute the Treaty of Peace proposed to be concluded be-
tween the United States of America and his Britannic Majesty,
when Terms of Peace should be agreed upon between their most
Christian and Britannic Majesties, were signed at Versailles on the
twentieth Day of January last, by the Ministers of their most Chris-
tian and Britannic Majesties : And Whereas, Preliminaries for
restoring Peace between the said King of Great-Britain and the
King of Spain, were also signed at Versailles on the same twentieth
Day of January last.
By which said Preliminary Articles it hath been agreed, That as
soon as the same were ratified, Hostilities, between the said Kings,
their Kingdoms, States and Subjects, should cease in all Parts of the
World; and it was farther agreed, That all Vessels and Effects that
might be taken in the Channel and in the North Seas, after the Space
of twelve Days from the Ratification of the said Preliminary Arti-
cles, should be restored; that the Term should be one Month from
the Channel and North Seas as far as the Canary Islands inclusively,
whether in the Ocean or the Mediterranean, two Months from the
said Canary Islands as far as the Equinoctial or Equator; and lastly,
five Months in all other Parts of the World, without any exception
or more particular Description of Time or Place : And Whereas it
was declared by the Minister plenipotentiary of the King of Great
Britain, in the name and by the Express Order of the King his
Master, on the said Twentieth Day of January last, that the said
United States of America, their Subjects and their Possessions, shall
be comprised in the above mentioned Suspension of Arms, at the
same Epochs, and in the same manner, as the three Crowns above
mentioned, their Subjects and Possessions respectively; upon Con-
dition, that on the Part, and in the Name of the United States of
America, a similar Declaration shall be delivered, expressly declar-
ing their Assent to the said Suspension of Arms, and containing an
Assurance of the most perfect Reciprocity on their Part: And
Whereas the Ministers Plenipotentiary of these United States did,
on the same twentieth Day of January, in the Name and by the Au-
thority of the said United States, accept the said Declaration, and
declare that the said States should cause all Hostilities to cease
against his Britannic Majesty, his Subjects and his Possessions, at
the Terms and Epochs agreed upon between his said Majesty, the
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