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fishermen on the coasts of Newfoundland and its dependencies up 

 to this time presented to either Government and without prejudice 

 to any question of the rights of either Government under the Treaty 

 of Washington. 



I am also permitted to say to your Lordship in giving this assur- 

 ance, that as a matter of fact no other claims than those embraced 

 in the Fortune Bay list and those named in Mr. Evarts' despatch 

 Number one hundred and nine, which I have shown to your Lord- 

 ship, are within the knowledge of my Government for presentation 

 or for its own consideration. 



I have already communicated to your Lordship orally the sub- 

 stance of this cable message, at the interview which I had the honour 

 of having with you this morning. I understood your Lordship l.o 

 say in answer to this communication that Her Majesty's Government 

 adhered to the terms they had finally offered: that is to say: that 

 the sum of fifteen thousand pounds should be considered as received 

 in full of all demands arising out of the interruptions of American 

 fishermen on the coasts of Newfoundland up to date: otherwise that 

 you would prefer to fall back upon the plan of a reference already 

 suggested. 



I sent a telegram to Mr. Evarts this morning informing him of 

 your views. 



I have the honour to me with the highest consideration my Lord 

 Your most obedient humble servant, 



J. R. LOWELL. 



The Right Honourable EARL GRANVILLE 



&c &c &c 



No. 177. 1882, July 15: Despatch from Earl Granville to Mr. West 

 (United States' 1 Minister at London). 



(No. 212.) FOREIGN OFFICE, July 15, 1882. 



SIR,: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. '207 

 of the 9th May last, transmitting a Memorandum drawn up by the 

 State Department of the United States' Government upon certain 

 Acts of the Legislature of Newfoundland for the regulation of the 

 fisheries in the waters of the Colony. 



This Memorandum was communicated to you by Mr. Frelinghuysen 

 in answer to the request of Her Majesty's Government to be favoured 

 with any suggestions which the United States' Government might be 

 prepared to offer with a view to the friendly consideration by the 

 two Governments of such amendments of the Fishery Regulations as 

 might be reasonably called for in the interests of both countries. 



Her Majesty's Government regret to find that the Memorandum 

 contains no suggestion of any kind tending to that object, but that it 

 reopens a discussion on the construction of the Treaty of Wash- 

 ington which it was hoped had been exhausted in the previous 

 correspondence. 



The Memorandum cites the following extract from a despatch 

 written by Mr. Evarts in 1878, as representing the views of the 

 United States' Government : 



This Government conceives that the fishery rights of the "United States con- 

 ceded by the Treaty of Washington are to be exercised wholly free from the 



