. 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. 29 Nova Scotia, England, Scotland, and Ireland to the Britons. The treaty was nothing more than mutual acknowledg- ment of antecedent rights'' (August lO, 1882, X. Adams' Works, 404). It was fitly called by an English judge " A Treaty of ; The Fisheries Clause a Conditio
. 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. 29 Nova Scotia, England, Scotland, and Ireland to the Britons. The treaty was nothing more than mutual acknowledg- ment of antecedent rights'' (August lO, 1882, X. Adams' Works, 404). It was fitly called by an English judge " A Treaty of ; The Fisheries Clause a Condition of the Peace. Vaugkan's Mission to Shelburne. The sketches afforded by the official correspondence of our Commissioners for Peace, and by the diary of Mr. Ad- ams, and the new and most important light thrown upon the whole subject by the confidential documents from the French Archives, and by the interesting disclosures in the Life of Lord Shelburne all confirm this view. To the latter work we are indebted for the most exact information we have yet had of the attempt of M. de Ray- neval in his secret mission to engage the support of Great Britain to the French and Spanish scheme, in which those courts united at the date of their treaty, April, 1779, co de- prive the United States of the fisheries, and so to cripple her boundaries and resources as to confine her to a narrow strip along the Atlantic, as shown in the map " of North America, showing the Boundaries of the United States, Canada, and the Spanish Possessions, according to the pro posals of the Court of France, in 1882 " (III. Shelburne's Life, p. 170). Their limits, according to the secret memoir given by de Circourt (III., pp. 34, 38), were to be detailed and " circumscribed with the greatest exactness, and all the belligerent powers (especially England, France, and Spain) must bind themselves to prevent any transgression of ; To Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, the grandson and biog- rapher of Lor
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