3 1 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC., PRIOR TO TREATY OF 1813 



No. 3. 



Protocol of the third conference held between the American and British pleni- 

 potentiaries, at Whitehall, on the 11th day of September, 1818. 



Present: Mr. Gallatin, Mr. Rush, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Goulburn. 



The conference fixed for the 4th instant having been adjourned by 

 mutual consent, it was held this day. 



The protocol of the preceding conference was agreed upon and 

 signed. 



The American plenipotentiaries, after some previous explanation 

 of the nature of the propositions which they were about to make, 

 submitted the five annexed articles, (A, B, C, and D,) upon the 

 fisheries, the boundary line, the West India intercourse, that of Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick, and the captured slaves. The two first 

 articles they stated to be drawn as permanent; and they accompanied 

 that respecting the fisheries with the annexed explanatory memo- 

 randum. (E.) 



The British plenipotentiaries submitted the annexed projet of 

 articles respecting the impressment of seamen, (F;) and they ex- 

 pressed their conviction that a consideration of these articles would, 

 under all the circumstances of difficulty with which the question is 

 involved, satisfy the American plenipotentiaries of the sincere and 

 earnest disposition of the British Government to go every practicable 

 length in a joint effort to remove all existing causes of difference, 

 and to connect the two countries in the firmest ties of harmony and 

 good understanding. 



The American plenipotentiaries declared that they received the 

 proposition entirely in the same spirit ; and then brought forward the 

 annexed articles, (G,) relating to other maritime points, which, at 

 the former conference, they had announced their intention of pro- 

 ducing. 



They also submitted three other articles, as annexed, respecting 

 wrecks, &c. (H.) 



It was agreed to meet on Friday, the 25th instant. 



Albert Gallatin, 

 Richard Rush, 

 Frederick John Robinson, 

 Henry Goulburn. 



Article A. 



Whereas differences have arisen respecting the liberty claimed by 

 the United States for the inhabitants thereof to take, dry and cure 

 fish on certain coasts, bays, harbors, and creeks of His Britannic 

 Majesty's dominions in America: It is agreed between the high con- 

 tracting parties that the inhabitants of the said United States shall 

 continue to enjoy unmolested, for ever, the liberty to take fish, of 

 every kind, on that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland which 

 extends from Cape Ray to the Ramea islands, and the western and 

 northern coast of Newfoundland, from the said Cape Ray to the 

 Quirpon island, on the Magdalen islands; and also on the coasts, bays, 

 harbors, and creeks from Mount Joli, on the southern coast of Labra- 

 dor, to and through the straits of Belleisle, and thence, northwardly, 



