. The fisheries dispute : a suggestion for its adjustment by abrogating the convention of 1818 and resting on the rights and liberties defined in the treaty of 1783 [microform] : a letter to the Honourable William M. Evarts of the United States Senate. Fisheries; Pêche commerciale. THE FISHERIES DISPUTE. 57 con- :hem- with- it the ful of round refore tpleas- rstood iioners in the itained. iepub- nd had imilton xpecta- [le (No- y treaty 1, "this ent 't is e to be om the idmund Oswald, ord St. rvices in tnbutes, a liberty it would n in the St publi- rgument Colonists, In the House of Lords.
. The fisheries dispute : a suggestion for its adjustment by abrogating the convention of 1818 and resting on the rights and liberties defined in the treaty of 1783 [microform] : a letter to the Honourable William M. Evarts of the United States Senate. Fisheries; Pêche commerciale. THE FISHERIES DISPUTE. 57 con- :hem- with- it the ful of round refore tpleas- rstood iioners in the itained. iepub- nd had imilton xpecta- [le (No- y treaty 1, "this ent 't is e to be om the idmund Oswald, ord St. rvices in tnbutes, a liberty it would n in the St publi- rgument Colonists, In the House of Lords. Lord Loughboro said: The fishery on the shores retained by Britain is in the next Article «tf/ ceded, but recognized as A right inherent in the Americans, which, though no longer British subjects, they are to continue to enjoy unmolested. Here the liberty of fishing which Lord Bathurst and Lord Gambier sought to show was a liberty conceded, not a right acknowledged, was pronounced by the Great Chan- cellor to be " « which we assumed, the right was not abrogated by the war, it remains entire, since we most explicitly refused to renounce it either directly or ; Mr. Adams said of the English Commissioners : " Their efforts to obtain our acquiescence in their pretensions that the fishing liberties had been forfeited by the war were unwearied. They pre- sented it to us in every form that ingenuity could desire. It was the first stumbling-block- and the last obstacle to the conclusion of the Treaty" (quoted in Sabine's Report on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas, p. 161. Washington, 1853). The British government revived the pretence after the conclusion of the Treaty, and the Canadian government presently began to warn and harass our fishermen, and some fishing-vessels were Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of th
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