. 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. 49 The Governor-General of Canada. It may be regarded as a fortunate circumstance at this juncture that the Governor-General of Canada is a grand- son of the great English Minister by whom our Revolution- ary War was happily ended, on terms so fair and reasonable as forever to entitle the memory of Sh
. 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. 49 The Governor-General of Canada. It may be regarded as a fortunate circumstance at this juncture that the Governor-General of Canada is a grand- son of the great English Minister by whom our Revolution- ary War was happily ended, on terms so fair and reasonable as forever to entitle the memory of Shelburne to the highest honor in both countries. His Excellency is familiar with the historic sketch by his brother, Lord Edmond Fitzmau- rice, of the conduct of the peace negotiations by that states- man, the story of whose connection therewith has been of signal service in correcting the errors into which American histo'ians had been misled, in regard to the secret devices of France and Spain to deprive us of the boundaries and the fisheries ; to the secret mission of Rayneval to England to secure Shelburne's adhesion to their scheme ; and to the great service rendered to the Republic by Benjamin Vaughan in hastening to Bowood at the request of Jay to counteract the designs of Rayneval, and tb assist in en- gaging for the American Con nissioners the confidence of Shelburne and a fair hare of American rights. Lord Lansdownc ows that at that time no peace was possible without the 1 reco^ ition of our right to the fisheries. His ;' without doubt values aright the inestimable service rendered by Shelburne to England, .'' merica, and the world, at the expense of a brief unpop- ularity. He will doubtless be the last person in Canada to wish to disturb the international friendship to which his illustrious ancestor so pre eminently contributed, and which, as regards the fisheries, would probably never have been disturbed had the third article been allowed to stand as Sh
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