TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS. 19 



No. 8. Extracts from Declarations of British and French Kings 

 accompanying above Treaty. 



DECLARATION. 



The King having entirely agreed with His Most Christian Majesty 

 upon the articles of the definitive treaty, will seek every means which 

 shall not only insure the execution thereof, with his accustomed good 

 faith and punctuality, but will besides give, on his part, all possible 

 efficacy to the principles which shall prevent even the least foundation 

 of dispute for the future. 



To this end. and in order that the fishermen of the two nations may 

 not give cause for daily quarrels, His Britannic Majesty will take 

 the most positive measures for preventing his subjects from inter- 

 rupting, in any manner, by their competition, the fishery of the 

 French, during the temporary exercise of it which is granted to them 

 upon the coasts of the Island of Newfoundland; and he will, for this 

 purpose, cause the fixed settlements, which shall be formed there, to 

 be removed. His Britannic Majesty will give orders, that the French 

 fishermen be not incommoded, in cutting the wood necessary for the 

 repair of their scaffolds, huts, and fishing vessels. 



The thirteenth article of the treaty of Utrecht, and the method of 

 carrying on the fishery which has at all times been acknowledged, 

 shall be the plan upon which the fishery shall be carried on there; 

 it shall not be deviated from by either party; the French fishermen 

 building only their scaffolds, confining themselves to the repair of 

 their fishing vessels, and not wintering there; the subjects of His 

 Britannic Majesty, on their part, not molesting, in any manner, the 

 French fishermen, during their fishing, nor injuring their scaffolds 

 during their absence. 



The King of Great Britain, in ceding the Islands of St. Pierre and 

 Miquelon to France, regards them as ceded for the purpose of serv- 

 ing as a real shelter to the French fishermen, and in full con- 

 12 fidence that these possessions will not become an object of 

 jealousy between the two nations; and that the fishery be- 

 tween the said islands, and that of Newfoundland, shall be limited 

 to the middle of the channel. 



COUNTER-DECLARATION. 



The principles which have guided the King, in the whole course 

 of the negotiations which preceded the re-esta"blishment of peace, 

 must have convinced the King of Great Britain, that His Majesty 

 has had no other design than to render it solid and lasting, by pre- 

 venting, as much as possible, in the four quarters of the world, every 

 subject of discussion and quarrel. The King of Great Britain un- 

 doubtedly places too much confidence in the uprightness of His 

 Majesty's intentions, not to rely upon his constant attention to pre- 

 vent the Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon from becoming an object 

 of jealousy between the two nations. 



As to the fishery on the coasts of Newfoundland, which has been 

 the object of the new arrangements settled by the two sovereigns 

 upon this matter, it is sufficiently ascertained by the fifth article of 



