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THE FRIEND AND MONITOR. lime dollars l>cr annum.'] PUBLISHED (v/eeki.y) BY JOHN K. M. CifARLTON. [Payable half yearly. Volume I.] JAMES MADISON, President of the Uunited States of America. To all and lingular to whom these prelents shall come, greeting: Whereas a treaty of peace and Amity between the United States of America, and his Britannic ma jesty was signed at Ghent, on the twenty fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, by plenipotentiaries re fpe&tvely appointed for that pur pose; and the said treaty having been, by and with the advice and consent of the senate of the United States, duly accepted, ratified and confirmed, on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen: and ratified copies thereof having been exchang ed agreeably to the tenor of the said treaty, which is in the words following, to wit ; Treaty of Peace and Amity, Between JUs Britannic Majesty and the United States of America. liis Britannic majesty and the United States of America, desirous of terminating the war which has unholy fubiiflted between the two countries, and cf restoring, upon principles of perfect recipro city, peace, friendfhip, and good underltanding between them, have, for that put pole, appointed their refpcAive plenipotentiaries, that is to fay ; his Britannic majesty, on his part, has appointed the right honorable James l.ord Gambler, bate admiral of the white now ad miral of the red squadron of his majesty’s fleet, Henry (j&ulbuY'l efqr. a member of the imperial par liament and under lecretary of (late, ‘and William Adams., Esquire doc tor of civil laws: And the Presi dent of the U. States, by and w*h the advice and consent of the Se nate thereof, has appointed John Quincey Adams, Jas. A. Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Ruffe! and Albert Gallatin, citizens of the U nited States, who, after a recipro cal communication of their refpeA r’ve felt powers, have agreed upon the following articles: Article the first. —There shall be a firm and univerfa! peace, between his Britannic Majesty and the Uni ted States, and between their ref. peAive countries, territories, cities, towns and people, of every degree, without exception of places or per form. AH hostilities, both by sea and land, (hall cease as soon as this treaty shall have been ratified by both pries, as herein after mention ed. All territory, places and pof feftions whatsoever, taken from ether party by the other, during the war, or which may be taken after the figuing of this treaty, ex cepting only the illands hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored with out delay, and without causing any deftruftion, or carrying away any of the artillery or other public pro perty originally captured in the (aid forts or places, and which ftiall remain therein upon the exchange •;f the ratifications’ of this treaty or WASHINGTON, (Geo.) — FRIDAY, MARCH 10,1815. any slaves or other private property. And all archives, records, deeds and papers, either of a public nature, or belonging to private persons, which in the course of the war, may have fallen into the hands of the officers of either party, ftiall be, as far as may be practicable, forthwith re flored and delivered to the proper authorities and persons to whom they refpeAively belong. Such of the illands in the Bay of Paffiuna quoddy as are claimed by both parties, finll remain in the pofleff ion of the party in whose occupa tion they tnay be at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, until the decision refpeA ing the title to the said iftandr, shall have been made in conformity with the fourth article of this treaty.— No disposition made by this treaty, as to iuch poffefiion of the illands and territories claimed by both parties, ftiall, in any manner what ever, be conltrued to affect the right of either. Article the second*— lmmediately after the ratifications of this treaty by both parties, as hereinafter men tioned, orders shall be sent to the armies, squadrons, officers, fubjeAs and citizes, of the two po .vers to cease from all hostilities. And to prevent a!] causes ot complaint which might arile on account of t he prizes which may be taken at lea after the said ratifications of this treaty, it is reciprocally agreed, that all velfeds and effects which may he taken after the lpa.ee of twelve days from the said ratifications, no on all parts of the coast of North America from the latitude ol twen ty-three degrees north, to the lati tude of fify degrees north, and as fat eattward in the Atlantic ocean as the thirty sixth degreed of weft longitude from the meridian of Greenwich, ftiall be restored on each fide: That the lime shall be thirty days in all other parts of the Atlatic ocean, north of the equi noAial fine or equtor, and the fame time for the British and Irilh chan nels, for the Gulf of Mexico, and all parts of the Weft-Indies: Forty days for the North Seas, for the Baltic, and for all parts of the Mediterranean, Sixty days for the Atlantic oceanHoufh of the equa tor as far as the latitude of the Cape’ of Good Hope : Ninety days for every part of the world south of the equator : And one hundred and twenty days for all other parts of the world, without exception. Article the third. —All prtfoners of war taken on either fide, as well by land as by sea, shall be restored as practicable after the ratifications of this treaty, as herein after men tioned, on their paying the debts which they may have contracted during their captivity. The two contracting parties refpeAively en gage to dil'charge, in specie, the ad vances which may have been made by the other for the fuTerrance and maintenance of such prisoners. Article the fourth —Whereas it , was stipulated by the second article in the treaty of neaccj of one thou VIRIUE, I.IREiITV, AND SCITNCb. band seven hundred & eighty three, between his Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, that the boundary of the United States ftiouid comprehend all iHands with in twenty leagues of any part of the United States, and laying between ■lines to be drawn due ea-.fi: from the points where the aforefaid boundaries, between Nova Scotia, on the one part, and East Florida on the other, (hall refpeAively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic ocean, excepting such ill ands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of No va Scotia ; and whereas the several illands in the Bay of Paffiimaquod ly, which is part of the Bay of Fundy ; and the ifiand of Grand Menan in the laid Bay of Fundy, are claimed by the United Sates as being comprehended within their aforefaid boundaries, which said illands are claimed as belonging to his Britannic Majesty, as having been at the time of, and previous to, the aforefaid treaty o/ one thou sand seven hundred and etgh'tv r.t j three within the limits of the pro. wince of Nova Scotia: In cider, ’therefore, finally to decide upon these claims, it is agreed that they ffiall be., referred to. two Commil fioners to be appointed in the fol lowing manner viz. ope comm if fioner ftiall bo appointed by his Brit tame .Vk.jefty, and one by the Tcefident of the United States, by and with the combat of the Senate thereof, and the fai l Gonnaiffiotiers 16 appointed {hall be f'v/orn inn par daily to examine and .decide upon the said claims according ro inch evidence as shall be laid before them on the part of his Britannic Majesty ap'd of the United Stales refpeAively. ‘1 he said con ruff fioners shall meet at Sr. Andrews, in the province of New li: unfwick, and shall have power to adjourn to fsjch other place or places as they Ih ii! think fit. The laid Commif fidners shall, by a declaration or report under their hands and fea’! 3, decide to which of .the-two con tracting, parties the fevera! i Hands aforefaid do refpeAively belong, in conformity- with the true intent of the said treaty of peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty three. And ifthe said C(xnn;i Hi on ers shall agree in ■ thenvdecifion, both parties shall confider such de cision as final and conclusive. It is further agreed, that in the event of the two commissioners differing upon ail or any of the matters so referred to them, or in the event of both or either of the said cornmif fioners refilling, or ddinlning, or wilfully omitting, to a A as Inch, they ftiall make, jointly or sepa rately, a report or report;; as w-.SI to the government of his Britannic Majesty as to that of the United States, flaring in detail the points on which they differ, .ami, the grounds u-pon which their r:fpeCl ive opinions have been formed, or the grounds upon which they, or either of them, have so refufed, de clined, or omitted to ach And his Britannic hfajefty, trid the govern- ment of the United States hereby agree to refer the reports of the said commissioners, to fome friend ly sovereign or state, to be then named for that purpose, and whtf ftiall be requested to decide on the differences which may be stated in the said report or reports, or upon the report of one commiflioner, to gether with the grounds upoQ which the other commissioners shall have refufed, declined, or omitted to aA, as the case may be. And if the said commissioners so refufing, declining or omitting to aA, shall also wilfully omit to {late the? grounds upon which he has so done,, in such manner that the said flate ment may be referred to such friendly sovereign or Hate, together with the report of such other conr miffioner, then such sovereign ot (late shall decide ex parte upon the said report alone. And his Britan nic Majesty and the government of the United States engage to confl der the decision of fome friendly sovereign or (late to be such and conclusive on all the matters so be* faired. (T 3 be* ‘concluded in our next.) Clf The treaty concluded by General Jackson with die Creek Indians has been ratified and con firmed by the President. and Sen ate. The firft and second articles of the treaty, defining the future* boundaries of the Creeks, are pub* hfiled for the fatisfacrioii, of our readers:— Journal. ill. “The United States demand an equivalent for all expences in curred in prosecuting the war to its termination, by a cession of all the territory belonging to the Creek nation within the territories of the United States, lying weft, south & fouth-eafifwar.uly, of a line to be run and deferibed by persons duly au thorised and appointed by the Pre fuient of the United States—Bs ?inning at and pdnt on the eastern bank of the Coofa River, where the south boundary fine of the Cherokee Nation erodes the fame ; running Horn thence down the laid Coofa with its eastern bank accor ding to its various meanders to a point one mile above the mouth of Cedar Creek, (it Fort Williams, thence east two miles, thence south .two milts, thence weft to the eas tern bank of the said Coofa River* thence down the eastern bank there - of according to its various mean ders to a point opposite the upper end of the great falls (called by the natives Wcctumka) thence call from a true meridian line to a point due* north of the mouth of the O fucfkce, thence south by a like me ridian line to the mouth of Ofuc fkee on the south fide of the Tal laooofa river, thence up the fame, according to its various meanders’ to a point where a direct course will cpcls the distance of ten miles from the north thereof, thence u direct line to the mouth of Sain mochico creek, which empties into the Chatahouchie river on theeafe fide thereof below the Efaulau Town, thence east from’ a true IQ.