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in the correspondence enclosed, and although France has placed her 

 claim as against the United States upon the footing of treaties once 

 subsisting oetween the two Powers, it will not fail to be perceived, 

 that she also asserts in the most unqualified manner her anterior, un- 

 limited and exclusive right to the fishery in question under the 

 treaties of Utrecht and of Paris; consequently as preexistent to her 

 former treaties with the United States, and paramount all title in 

 any other Power. In the note of Viscount Chateaubriand of the 

 5th of April, it is stated that the charge d'affaires of France at 

 Washington had been instructed to enter upon explanations with the 

 Government of the United States concerning this interest, and was 

 then about to be again written to on the same head; yet it becomes 

 the duty of the undersigned to say, that no adjustment of the subject 

 has taken place, and that the fishing vessels of the United States still 

 remain under the interdiction put upon them by the cruisers of 

 France. 



The undersigned in fulfilling the orders of his Government to bring 

 under the official notice of Mr. Secretary Canning the circumstances 

 of the above case, does so in full reliance that, through the friendly 

 dispositions of His Majesty's Government, the whole subject will 

 receive such attention as it will be seen to merit. The United States 

 seek only the fair and unmolested enjoyment of the fishing rights 

 which they hold at the hands of Great Britain under the convention 

 cf 1818, satisfied that Great Britain, whether as regards the guar- 

 antee of those rights, or the maintenance of her own sovereign juris- 

 diction over this island and its immediate waters, will take such steps 

 as the occasion calls for, and above all as are appropriate to the just 

 and amicable intentions, which it may be so confidently supposed will 

 animate the Government of His Most Christian Majesty, as well as 

 that of His Britannic Majesty, towards the United States, touching 

 the full rights of the latter under the Convention aforesaid. 



The undersigned prays Mr. Canning to accept the assurances of his 

 distinguished consideration. 



RICHARD RUSH. 



LONDON MAY 3d. 1824. 



1 George Street Portman Square. 

 The Rt Hon GEORGE CANNING 



His Majesty^s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 



112 No. 59. 1884, May 6: Letter from Mr. Stratford Canning to 



Mr. G. Canning. 



LONDON, May 6th 1824- 

 The Rt Honble GEORGE CANNING, 



SIR, Agreeably to your directions communicated to me this evening 

 by Mr. Planta, I have examined with attention the note and accom- 

 panying documents submitted to you by the American envoy under 

 date of the 3d instant. It appears from these papers that the Govt. 

 of the United States desire the intervention of Great Britain in order 

 to obtain for their citizens the actual enjoyment of the right to take 

 fish on the western coast of Newfoundland, in virtue of their con- 



