sses
wish nothing with more ardor than a prompt re-establishment of
peace, and that they shall be always ready on their part to
co-operate in it, in all possible ways, and with a suitable
readiness, so far as that shall be any way compatible with their
honour and their dignity. And to this end an extract of this
shall be carried by missive to the gentlemen, the Deputies at the
Generality."

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GUELDERLAND.

_Extract from the Precis of the ordinary Diet, held in the City of
Nimeguen, in the month of April, 1782._

Wednesday, 17th of April, 1782.

"The requisition of Mr. Adams to present his letter of credence
to their High Mightinesses, in the name of the United States of
North America, having been brought to the Assembly and read, as
well as an ulterior address made upon this subject, with the
demand of a categorical answer by the said Mr. Adams, more amply
mentioned in the registers of their High Mightinesses, of the
date of the 4th of May, 1781, and the 9th of January, 1782,
moreover, the resolutions of the Lords, the States of the six
other Provinces, carried successively to the Assembly of their
High Mightinesses, and all tending to admit Mr. Adams, in quality
of Envoy of the United States of North America, to this Republic;
upon which their Noble Mightinesses, after deliberation, have (p. 063)
resolved to authorize the Deputies of this Province, as they
authorize them by the present, to conform themselves in the name
of this Province, to the resolution of the Lords, the States of
Holland and West Friesland, and to consent, by consequence, that
Mr. Adams may be acknowledged and admitted, in quality of Envoy
of the United States of North America, to this Republic. In
consequence, an extract of the present shall be sent to the said
Deputies, to make, as soon as possible, the requisite overture of
it to the Assembly of their High Mightinesses.
J. IN DE BETOUW."

This resolution of Guelderland was no sooner remitted, on the
19th, to their High Mightinesses, than they took immediately a
resolution conformable to the unanimous wish of the Seven
Provinces, conceived in the following terms:

_Extract from the Register of the Resolution