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n put forward by the complainant,” &c., &c., or to that effect, 
s not an exaggerated picture of the process through which 
ost ordinary applications for redress for injuries suffered by 
ish subject at the hands of a Frenchman arising out of 
_ quarrels over these treaty rights or claims must pass. 
a yk: cing at the delay and trouble alone attending such a process, 
d anything further be said to show the hopelessness of such 
Lu mdertaking as a means of obtaining redress? But when to 
is delay and difficulty are added, first, the facility on the part 
f the French of disputing either the facts or the law under the 
reaties applicable to them ; and next, the fact that in any case 
pute between the two nations over the merits of a claim 
1 as we have supposed, the claimant has to ask the Imperial 
Government, as his only means of redress, to insist upon a satis- 
ac tion of his claim, it can at once be seen that practically redress 
penne: inflicted by Frenchmen upon British subjects, under 
1owever slim or groundless a pretext of fishery or treaty “rights,” 
is out of the question. 
Be ANOTHER CLASS OF WRONGS. 
_ Another class of wrongs under which our people sniffer, and 
n which the chances of redress or remedy are even more hopeley 
Dis that i in which the French officer in the “ protection” service 
kes it upon himself to decide between the French and English 
in cases of dispute, and to give effect to his decision by ordering 
id compelling our people to obey his directions, whatever they 
ay be, in relation to the matter in dispute. A Frenchman is 
the complainant, a French officer is first judge to pronounce 
‘sentence against the Englishman, and next the sheriff to carry 
= sentence into effect. In many of these cases the decisions 
1d mandates of the French officer are not only unwarranted 
er er by the most extreme French construction of the treaties, 
but are in defiance of the plainest and simplest rules of justice 
and common-sense. 
4 “We shall give one example of a numerous class of such cases. 
rtain harbours on the so-called “French shore” are largely 
sorted to by fishing vessels from other parts of the colony, 
ost of them on their way to the fishing grounds in the 
waits of Belle Isle and at Labrador. The visits of the 
