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the treaty of 1818. And they equally mantain the position which was 

 laid down in the note of the undersigned, dated the 15th of April 

 last, that, with regard to the other bays on the British American 

 coasts, no United States' fisherman has, under that convention, the 

 right to fish within three miles of the entrance of such bays as desig- 

 nated by a line drawn from headland to headland at that entrance. 



But while her Majesty's government still feel themselves bound to 

 maintain these positions as a matter of right, they are nevertheless 

 not insensible to the advantages which would accrue to both countries 

 from a relaxation of the exercise of that right; to the United States 

 as conferring a material benefit on their fishing trade ; and to Great 

 Britain and the United States, conjointly and equally, by the removal 

 of a fertile source of disagreement between them. 



Her Majesty's government are also anxious, at the same time that 

 they uphold the just claims of the British crown, to evince by every 

 reasonable concession their desire to act liberally and amicably 

 towards the United States. 



The undersigned has accordingly much pleasure in announcing to 

 Mr. Everett, the determination to which her Majesty's government 

 have come to relax in favor of the United States fishermen, that right 

 which Great Britain has hitherto exercised, of excluding those fisher- 

 men from the British portion of the Bay of Fundy, and they are 'pre- 

 pared to direct their colonial authorities to allow henceforward the 

 United States fishermen to pursue their avocations in any part of the 

 Bay of Fundy, provided they do not approach, except in the 

 142 cases specified in the treaty of 1818, within three miles of the 

 entrance of any bay on the coast of Nova Scotia or New 

 Brunswick. 



In thus communicating to Mr. Everett the liberal intentions of her 

 Majesty's government, the undersigned desires to call Mr. Everett's 

 attention to the fact that the produce of the labor of the British 

 colonial fishermen is at the present moment excluded by prohibitory 

 duties on the part of the United States from the markets of that coun- 

 try ; and the undersigned would submit to Mr. Everett that the mo- 

 ment at which the British government are making a liberal conces- 

 sion to United States' trade, might well be deemed favorable for a 

 counter concession on the part of the United States to British trade, 

 by the reduction of the duties which operate so prejudicially to the 

 interests of the British colonial fishermen. 



The undersigned has the honor to renew to Mr. Everett, the assur- 

 ances of his high consideration. 



ABERDEEN. 



No. 84. 1845, March %5: Extract from Letter from Mr. Everett to 



Mr. Calhoun. 

 [No. 278.] 



LONDON, March %5, 1845. 



SIR : You are aware that the construction of the first article of the 

 convention between Great Britain and the United States, of 1818, 

 relative to the right of fishing in the waters of the Anglo-American 

 dependencies, has long been in discussion between the two govern- 

 ments. Instructions on this subject were several times addressed by 

 Mr. Forsyth to my predecessor, particularly in a despatch of the 20th 

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