HISTORY AND METHODS OF THE FISHEEIES. 



success.* Naturally those interested (and this included the wealthiest merchants and the most 

 skillful mechanics, as well as the most indefatigable mariners) felt aggrieved. It seemed scarcely 

 in consonance with the colonial ideas of justice, crude as those notions appeared to the English 

 nobility, that the beneficial results of a conquest which they almost single-handed had made, and 

 for defraying the expense of which England had declined any remuneration, should be diverted 

 to the sole benefit of those alone who were residents of the British Isles. Merchants iu London, 

 too, whose heaviest and most profitable trade was with the provinces, joined their voices in 

 denouncing this wrong. During the early winter the report came that Palliser's regulations were 

 suspended until the ministry aud Parliament had time to consider the subject. The matter had 

 already, late in the last whaliug season, been brought to the attention of the governor of New- 

 foundland, and he issued the following supplementary edict, which appeared in the Boston papers 

 of January, 1767: 



" ' By His Excellency Hugh Palliser, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Island 

 of Newfoundland, the Coast of Labradore and all the Territories dependent thereupon : 



"< "Whereas a great many Vessels from His Majesty's Plantations employed in the Whale- 

 Fishery resort to that Part of the Gulph of St. Lawrence and the Coast of Labradore which is 

 within this Government : and as I have been informed that some Apprehensions have arisen 

 amongst them that by the Eegulatious made by me relating to the different Fisheries in those 

 Parts, they are wholly precluded from that Coast : 



'"Notice is hereby given, That the King's officers stationed iu those Parts have always had 

 my Orders to protect, assist aud encourage by every Means in their Power, all Vessels from the 

 Plantations employed in the Whale-Fishery, coming within this Government; and, pursuant to 

 his Majesty's Orders to me, all Vessels from the Plantations will be admitted to that Coast on the 

 same Footing as they have ever been admitted in Newfoundland ; the ancient Practices and Cus- 

 toms established in Newfoundland respecting the Cod Fishery, under the Act of Parliament 

 passed in the 10 and llth Years of William Hid commonly called The Fishing Act, always to be 



observed. t 



' And by my Regulations for the Encouragement of the Whale Fisheries, they are also under 

 certain necessary Eestrictions therein prescribed, permitted to land and cut up their Whales in 

 Labradore; this is a Liberty that has never been allowed them iu Newfoundland, because of the 

 Danger of prejudicing the Cod-Fishery carried on by our adventurer's Ships, and by Boat-Keepers 

 from Britain, lawfully qualified with Fishing-Certificates accordiu g to the aforementioned Act, 

 who are fitted out at a very great Bisque and Expence in complying with said Act, therefore they 

 must not be liable to have their Voyages overthrown, or rendered precarious by any Means, or by 

 any other Vessels whatever. And, Whereas great Numbers of the Whaling Crews arriving from 

 the Plantations on the Coast of Labradore early in the Spring considering it as a lawless Country 

 are guilty of all Sorts of Outrages before the Arrival of the King's Ships, plundering whoever they 



" * The Boston News-Letter mentions the arrival of Capt, Peter Wells at that port from whaling August 18, 1766. 

 Under date of October 2, the News- Letter s.iys : ' Since our last a Number of Vessels have arrived from Whaling. They 

 have not been successful gem-rally. One "I' them viz: Capt. Clark on Thursday Morning last discovering a Sperma- 

 ecl i Whale near George's Banks, manu'd his Uout, and gave Chase to her, & she coming up with her jaws against the 

 r-ow of the Boat struck it with such Violence that it threw a Son of the Captain ; (who was forward ready with his 

 Lauce) a considerable Height from the ISi.ut. and when he fell the Whale turned with her devouring Jaws opened, 

 and caught him. He was heard to scream, when she closed her Jaws, and part of his Body was seen ont of her Mouth, 

 \\ hen she turned, and went off.' " 



" t Duties on oil imported iu British ships were remitted, the commander and one-third of each crew being British. 

 Duties were also remitted on fat, furs, and tusks of seal, bear, walrus, or other marine animal taken in the Greenland 

 seas. By other acts the imported materials to be used in outfitting were made non-dutiable, and bounties were estab- 

 lished, amounting in the final aggregate to 40s. per ton." 



