The Dispatches from admiral Graves were to the same effect as the above from Sir H. Clinton.
The terms of capitulation have not yet officially been received.
PRELIMINARIES OF EUROPEAN PEACE (1783).
Source.—Gentleman’s Magazine. Vol. liii., p. 91.
Substance of the preliminary articles of peace between Great Britain and France, Spain, and the United States of America.
Between Great Britain and France.
Peace to take place in all parts of the world as soon as the preliminaries are ratified. Newfoundland to remain to England as before the war; and, to prevent disputes about boundaries, the French fishery shall commence from Cape St. John on the eastern side, and, going round by the north, shall have for its boundary Cape Ray on the western side.
The islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon to be ceded to the French, with liberty to fish in the Gulph of St. Laurence.
The French to have St. Lucia and Tobago.
The English to have Granada and the Grenadines, St. Vincent’s, Dominica, St. Kitt’s, Nevis, and Montserrat; the subjects of the French King that choose to leave these islands, to be allowed 18 months to settle their affairs and dispose of their effects.
In Africa, the river Senegal and its forts to be ceded to France, and the island of Goree to be restored.