it as still in force, the United States needed no new 

 grant from Great Britain to revive, or any new article 

 to confirm it.&quot; 



&quot; It was not acceded to by the British plenipoten 

 tiaries. Each party adhered to its asserted principle ; 

 and the Treaty was concluded without settling the in 

 terest involved in it.&quot; 



The principle, that the title to the fisheries was prior 

 possession, and acknowledgment by the Treaty of 

 1783, and that Treaty, was not and could not from its 

 intrinsic character be abrogated by a subsequent war, 

 Mr. Adams says, &quot; he willingly admits to have been 

 assumed and advanced by the American Commissioners, 

 at his suggestion&quot; 



The proceedings of the British and American nations 

 subsequent to the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent, 

 will tend to elucidate more clearly, the subject of the 

 Fisheries. 



The provisions of that Treaty had scarcely become 

 operative, before the enrolment and license of a fishing 

 vessel from Cape Cod, was endorsed by Captain Lock, 

 of the British navy, in the following words, &quot; Warned 

 off the coast by his Majesty s sloop Jaseur, not to come 

 within sixty miles, N. Lock, Captain.&quot; This was done 

 on the 19th of June, 1815. The American vessel re 

 turned home without completing her fare. Information 

 of the circumstance was immediately communicated, by 

 the collector of Barnstable, to the American govern 

 ment. Mr. Monroe, then Secretary of State, on the 

 18th of July, addressed a note to Mr. Baker, the Bri 

 tish Charge d ? Affaires, in which he complained of this 

 act, and also of the similar warning which had been 

 given by the commander of the Jaseur, to all the other 

 American vessels, which were then in sight.&quot; 



Mr. Baker in his reply, denied the authority of the 

 Captain of the Jaseur, to warn off American vessels, 

 fishing at the distance of 60 miles from the British coasts, 

 and stated explicitly, that the British government, had 

 never authorized any interruption to American vessels, 

 fishing on the high seas. 



