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Cape Bonavista and Point Rich on the coasts of Newfound- 

 land, which were conferred in 1713, were renewed, although 

 in 1763 English settlers were in occupation as far north as 

 Twillingate, and French fishermen had never during the last 

 thirty years been further south than Fleur-de-Lys and White 

 Bay, which were quaintly described as ' some ten leagues 

 further north' than Twillingate. It was agreed, too, that 

 Spanish fishing-rights, as to which there was an ambiguous 

 reference in the Treaty of 1713, did not exist. 



In England during this period the country oscillated 

 between a peace party and a war party ; Pitt was the 

 champion of the war party during the preceding quarter of 

 a century, and in 1763 Pitt was dissatisfied with the Treaty 

 on the ground that { exclusive fisheries ' were worth trying for 

 ' for another campaign or two V ' Think nothing gained,' he 

 cries, ' till nought remain ' ; but his wish was vain, for the 

 world was weary of war, and the popular tide set irresistibly 

 towards Peace, which was acclaimed with universal enthusiasm. 



The Calendar of State Papers has not been continued beyond 1700, 

 consequently all the references in this chapter are to the MS. records in 

 the Record Office. These records, 1696 to 1757, were formerly entitled 

 respectively, vols. iii to xv (inclusive) of the ' Board of Trade, New- 

 foundland ', but their titles are now changed. The writer was not 

 allowed access to any original records of a date later than 1757. 



Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III, vol. i, p. 228. 



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