DESPATCHES, REPORTS, CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 193 



practically open to British subjects, His Majesty's Govt. may not 

 feel themselves called upon to originate a discussion on the subject 

 with France, but deem it sufficient, in the first instance, to issue 

 such orders to the authorities at Newfoundland, as may secure a 

 proper degree of protection to the American, in common with the 

 British fishermen, within the limits of His Majesty's peculiar juris- 

 diction. 



You will probably be of opinion that the conflicting claims of 

 France and the United States, however to be regretted as sources of 

 disagreement between two Powers in friendship with His Majesty, 

 can only be decided between the parties themselves. 

 I have &c. 



(Signed) STRATFORD CANNING. 



No. 60. 1825, January 3: Letter from Mr. Addington (British Min- 

 ister at Washington) to Mr. G. Canning. 

 No. 7. 



WASHINGTON 3d January 18*25. 



SIR, Thinking it might be agreeable to His Majesty's Government 

 to be made acquainted with the determination of that of the United 

 States on the subject of the further prosecution of the negotiations 

 entered upon last year between the two countries, I ascertained, a 

 few days since, from the American Secretary of State, that there was 

 no intention on the part of the President to pursue those negotiations 

 any further for the present. That magistrate would be too much 

 occupied, Mr. Adams said, during the remainder of his term in wind- 

 ing up his public administration : besides which Mr. Rush was on the 

 eve of returning to his own country, nor would a successor be ap- 

 pointed to him by the present President. 



The negotiations might therefore be considered as suspended for 

 the present. 



I have the honour to be with the highest respect, Sir, 

 Your most obedient humble servant, 



H. U. ADDINGTON. 

 The Right Honble GEORGE CANNING, 



&c &c &c 



No. 61. 1830, October 6: Circular of the United States' Treasury 

 Department to the Collectors of the Customs. 



TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 6th October 1830. 



SIR, You will perceive, by the proclamation of the President, here- 

 with transmitted, that, from and after the date thereof, the Act, enti- 

 tled, "An Act concerning Navigation," passed on the 18th of April, 

 1818 ; an Act, supplementary thereto, passed the 15th of May, 1820 ; 

 and an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the Commercial Intercourse 

 between the United States and certain British Ports," passed on the 

 1st of March 1823; are absolutely repealed; and the ports of the 

 United States are opened to British vessels and their cargoes, arriv- 

 ing from the ports of the British colonial possessions in the West In- 

 dies, on the continent of South America, the Bahama Islands, the 

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