. 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. I 30 THE FISHERIES and apart from its general interest as showing the complete success of Vaughan's mission in deciding the policy of the British cabinet in favor of the United States, and in over- throwing kt a blow the scheme for the permanent enfeeble- ment of the new Republic, in which France and Spain
. 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. I 30 THE FISHERIES and apart from its general interest as showing the complete success of Vaughan's mission in deciding the policy of the British cabinet in favor of the United States, and in over- throwing kt a blow the scheme for the permanent enfeeble- ment of the new Republic, in which France and Spain had been for years united, and to accomplish which their ablest diplomatists were engaged in Madrid and Paris, at Phila- delphia and London, it has a direct bearing on the fisheries question of to-day, in showing that the British cabinet then adopted their new policy of conciliation with a complete advisement that without a recognition of our right to the fisheries no peace was possible. The " Consider ''^ns" sub- mitted by Mr. Vaughan to Lord Shelburne (VIIL Diplomatic Correspondence, pp. 165, 168) as worthy of attention if England expected other advantages from peace than a mere suspension of hostilities, if she looked forward to cordiality, confidence, and commerce, after touching upon the impor- tance of treating with us on an equal footing, notwithstand- ing the policy of France to postpone the acknowledgment of our independence to the conclusion of a general peace, discussed with perfect frankness the true policy of Great Britain as regards the fisheries and the boundaries, and said in conclusion, " that could not be wise in Britain, whatever it might be in other nations, thus to sow the seeds of future war in the very treaty of peace, or to lay in it the foundation of such distrust and jealousies as on the one hand would forever prevent confidence and real friendship, and on the other naturally lead us to strengthen our security by intimate
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