manner promised on the sixth, he took out a minute and read
from it a few hints, or articles; some, he said, as necessary for
them to insist on; others, which he could not say he had any or-
ders about, or were not absolutely demanded, and yet such as it
would be advisable for England to offer for the sake of reconcilia-
tion and her future interest ; viz.
‘ Points Necessary to be granted ;
‘1. Independence, full and complete in every sense, to the thir-
teen United States, and all troops to be withdrawn from
thence.
2, A settlement of the boundaries of their colonies, and the
loyal colonies.
‘3. A confinement of the boundaries of Canada, at least to what
they were before the last act of parliament, I think in 1774,
if not to a still more contracted state on ancient footing.
‘4. A freedom of fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland. I
own I wondered he should have thought it necessary to ask
for this privilege.
‘Then as to the ADVISABLE articles, or such, as a friend, he
would recommend to be offered by England ;
‘1. To indemnify many people who had been ruined by towns
burnt and destroyed. ‘The whole might not exceed five or
six hundred thousand pounds. I was struck at this. How-
ever the Doctor said, though it was a large sum, it would
not be ill bestowed, as it would conciliate the resentment of
a multitude of poor sufferers, who would have no other
remedy, and who, without some relief, would keep up a se-
cret revenge and animosity, for a long time to come, against
Great Britain ; whereas a voluntary offer of such a repara-
tion would diffuse a universal calm and conciliation over
the whole country.
‘2. Some sort of acknowledgment in some public act of parlia-
ment, or otherwise, of our error in distressing those coun-
tries so much as we had done. A few words of that kind,
the Doctor said, would do more good than people could
imagine.
‘3. Colony ships and trade to be received and have the same
privileges in Britain and Ireland, as British ships and trade.
I did not ask any explanation on that head for the present.
British and Irish ships in the colonies, to be, in like man-
ner, on the same footing with their own ships.
‘4. Giving up every part of Canada
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