...resolution just quoted. By the eighth article of that treaty, it was provided that neither of the two contracting parties should conclude either truce or...the formal consent of the other first obtained ; and the eleventh stipulated a mutual guarantee, by the United States, of the French possessions in America...

...independence of the United States shall hare been secured. ART. 8. Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain,...consent of the other first obtained ; and they mutually engage not to lay down their f *98 j arms until the independence of ihe United * Stales shall have...

...concurrence ; " and notwithstanding the pledge in the treaty of alliance, " that neither of the two parties should conclude either truce or peace with...without the formal consent of the other first obtained." It is true, that the treaty was only provisional, and was not to be ratified until France had likewise...

...our affairs ; the article in our treaty, whereby the " two parties engage, that neither of them shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain,...the formal consent of the other first obtained; and mutually engage, not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have...

...England during the existence its stipulaof that with the United States, it should be made a common tions. cause ; and that neither of the contracting parties...Great Britain, without the formal consent of the other ; and they mutually engaged not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States...

...and France in the year 1778, by which, among other articles, it was agreed that neither of the two parties should conclude either truce or peace with...the formal consent of the other first obtained, and whereby they mutually engaged not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States...

...other articles, it was agreed that neither of the two parties should conclude either truce or peaco with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained, and whereby they mutually engaged not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States...

...notwithstanding the pledge Ш * treaty of alliance „that neither of the two parties should conclu'' either truce or peace with Great Britain, without the formal consent of the other first obtained/' It is true, that the treaty was ов1урнvisional and was not to be ratified until France had likewise...

...and concurrence, and notwithstanding the pledge in the treaty of alliance „that neither of the two parties should conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain, without the formal consent ef the other first obtained/' It is true, that the treaty was only provisional and was not to be ratified...

...acknowledged the independence of America. In this treaty it was declared, that "if war should break out between France and England during the existence of...Great Britain, without the formal consent of the other ; and they mutually engaged not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States...