heries 20

Jay detects the schemes of Vergennes 21

And sends Dr Vaughan to visit Shelburne 22

John Adams arrives in Paris and joins with Jay in insisting
upon a separate negotiation with England 23, 24

The separate American treaty, as agreed upon:

1. Boundaries 25

2. Fisheries; commercial intercourse 26

3. Private debts 27

4. Compensation of loyalists 28-32

Secret article relating to the Yazoo boundary 33

Vergennes does not like the way in which it has been done 33

On the part of the Americans it was a great diplomatic
victory 34

Which the commissioners won by disregarding the instructions
of Congress and acting on their own responsibility 35

The Spanish treaty 36

The French treaty 37

Coalition of Fox with North 38-42

They attack the American treaty in Parliament 43

And compel Shelburne to resign 44

Which leaves England without a government, while for
several weeks the king is too angry to appoint ministers 44

Until at length he succumbs to the coalition, which presently
adopts and ratifies the American treaty 45

The coalition ministry is wrecked upon Fox's India Bill 46

Constitutional crisis ends in the overwhelming victory of
Pitt in the elections of May, 1784 47

And this, although apparently a triumph for the king, was
really a death-blow to his system of personal government 48, 49

CHAPTER II.

THE THIRTEEN COMMONWEALTHS.

Cessation of hostilities in America 50

Departure of the British troops 51

Washington resigns his command 52

And goes home to Mount Vernon 53

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