304 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC., PRIOR TO TREATY OF 1818 



Prince Recent, acting in the name and behalf of ITis Majesty the King 

 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being furnished 

 with like power and authority; and with him or them to agree, treat, 

 consult and negotiate of and concerning the renewal of the convention 

 concluded at London on the 3rd of July, 1815, and concerning the 

 general commerce between the United States and Great Britain and 

 its dominions or dependencies, and such other matters and subjects 

 interesting to the two nations as may be given to them in charge; and 

 to conclude and sign a treaty or treaties, convention or conventions, 

 touching the premises; transmitting the same to the President of the 

 United States for his final ratification, by and with the advice and 

 consent of the Senate of the United States. 



In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States 

 to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at the city of Wash- 

 ington, the twenty-second day of May, A. D. 1818, and of 

 [l. s.] the independence of the United States of America the forty- 

 second. 



James Monroe. 

 By the President: 



John Quincy Adams, 



Secretary of State. 



Mr. Adams to Messrs. Gallatin and Rush. 



Department of State, July 28, 1818. 



In the expectation that the Government of Great Britain have 



accepted the proposal which Mr. Rush was instructed to make, for 



negotiating a treaty of commerce, embracing the continuance of the 



convention of 3d July, 1815, for an additional term of years, and 



including other objects of interest to the two nations, I have now 



the honor of transmitting to you the President's instructions to you 



for the conduct of the negotiation. 



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5. fisheries. 



The proceedings, deliberations, and communications upon this sub- 

 ject, which took place at the negotiation of Ghent, will be fresh in 

 the remembrance of Mr. Gallatin. Mr. Rush possesses copies of the 

 correspondence with the British Government relating to it after the 

 conclusion of the peace, and of that which has passed here between 

 Mr. Bagot and this Government. Copies of several letters received 

 by members of Congress during the late session, from the parts of the 

 country most deeply interested in the fisheries, are now transmitted. 



The President authorizes you to agree to an article whereby the 

 United States will desist from the liberty of fishing, and curing and 

 drying fish, within the British jurisdicition generally, upon condition 

 that it shall be secured as a permanent right, not liable to be im- 

 pared by any future war. from Cape Ray to the Ramca islands, and 

 from Mount Joli, on the Labrador coast, through the strait of Belle- 

 isle, indefinitely north, along the coast ; the right to extend as well to 

 curing and drying the fish as to fishing. 



