But Oswald was satisfactory; and David Hartley, another friend of Franklin's and also a sympathizer with our Revolution, was added; and in these circumstances and by these men the Treaty was made.

To France we broke our promise to reach no separate agreement with England.

We negotiated directly with the British, and the Articles were signed without consultation with the French Government.

When Vergennes, the French Minister, saw the terms, he remarked in disgust that England would seem to have bought a peace rather than made one.

By the treaty we got the Northwest Territory and the basin of the Ohio River to the Mississippi.