aracter of his Prussian majesty, whose great army
over-awed Hanover and Bohemia, in all probability damped that vigour
with which the courts of Vienna and Herenhausen had hitherto prosecuted
this important negotiation.

DISPUTES WITH THE FRENCH ABOUT THE LIMITS OF NOVA SCOTIA.

The second object that employed the attention of the British ministry,
was the establishment of the precise limits of Acadia, or Nova Scotia,
where the new colony had suffered great mischief and interruption from
the incursions of the Indians, excited to these outrages by the subjects
and emissaries of France. Commissaries had been appointed, by both
crowns, to meet at Paris and compromise these disputes: but the
conferences were rendered abortive by every art of cavilling, chicanery,
and procrastination, which the French commissioners opposed to
the justice and perspicuity of the English claims. They not only
misinterpreted treaties, though expressed with the utmost precision, and
perplexed the conferences with difficulties and matter foreign to the
subject, but they carried the finesse of perfidy so far as to produce
false charts and maps of the country, in which the rivers and boundaries
were misplaced and misrepresented. At this time also the insincerity of
the French court appeared in affected delays and artful objections, with
respect to the evacuation of the neutral islands in the West Indies; and
the governors of the British plantations, in different parts of North
America, transmitted intelligence that the French had begun to make
encroachments on the back of the English colonies.

TREATY WITH SPAIN.

Perhaps the precarious footing on which the peace stood between Great
Britain and France at this juncture, and the critical situation of
affairs in Germany, determined the ministry of England to compromise all
differences with Spain, upon such terms as at any other time they would
hardly have embraced. In order to discuss those points between the two
nations, which had not been settled by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle,
conferences were also begun at Madrid, and carried on by Mr. Keene,
plenipotentiary to his Britannic majesty, and don Joseph de Carvajal and
Lancastro, the Spanish king's minister. At length a treaty was concluded
on these conditions--the king of Spain engaged to pay, in three months,
to the South-sea company of England, one hundred thousand pounds
sterling, as an indemnification for all claims upon his crown,