JOHN ADAMS.
P. S. I do not see Captain Waters's engagement yet in any of the papers. I would have sent it to England and Holland for publication, if I had known it could not be printed here.
J. A.
TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.
Paris, May 9th, 1780.
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose to Congress proposals for a general pacification, by the Dean of Gloucester.
"Proposals to the English, Americans, French, and Spaniards, now at war.
"First. That Great Britain shall retain Newfoundland, with the desert coasts of Labradore; also Canada, Nova Scotia, and the country bordering on the Bay of Fundy, as far as the bay and river of Penobscot.