CORRESPONDENCE, ETC., PRIOR TO TREATY OF 1818 



The British project 'will sIioav the nature and extent of these in- 

 juries, and it -will be your object, to make the remedy as harmless to 

 our citizens and as safe to the public rights as possible. 

 I have the honor to be, &c. 



James Monroe. 



Mr. Monroe to Mr. Adams. 



Department of State, February 27, 1816 



Sir: It being represented, by your letter of the 8th of November, 

 that the British Government was disposed to regulate, in concert with 

 the United States, the taking of fish on the coasts, bays, and creeks of 

 all His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America, and the curing and 

 drying of fish by their citizens on the unsettled bays, harbors, and 

 creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen islands, and Labrador, in such man- 

 ner as to promote the interest of both nations, you will consider this 

 letter an authority and instruction to negotiate a convention for these 

 purposes. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 



James Monroe. 



Mr. Monroe to Mr. Adams. 



[Extract.] 



Department of State, May 24, 1816. 

 A hope is entertained that you will have arranged with the British 

 Government the difference respecting the fisheries before this reaches 

 you. Should you not have been able to do it, you will endeavor to 

 comprise it in the general arrangement which you are authorized to 

 make, on the principles stated in my letter of the 27th of February. 



Mr. Monroe to Mr. Adams. 



Department of State, July 8, 1816. 

 Mr. Bagot has received a power to arrange the difference respect- 

 ing the taking, and curing and drying fish on the shores of the 

 British colonies, but whether it authorizes such an arrangement, as 

 will be useful and satisfactory to us, I am as yet uninformed. He has 

 also a power to regulate the naval force, to be maintained on the 

 Lakes, on each side, the nature and extent of which, I have also yet 

 to learn. This power to Mr. Bagot, will diminish as to these objects, 

 the authority which has been sent to you. In every other respect, 

 your power will remain in full force, and we hope produce the salu- 

 tary effect contemplated by it. 



Mr. Monroe to Mr. Adams. 



Department of State, 



August 13, 1816. 

 To avoid losing the opportunity of the British packet. I hasten to 

 communicate to you some facts with which it is material that you 

 should be made immediately acquainted. 



