50 COUNTER CASE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



of the United States of this source of subsistence, the result must be 

 to throw them back upon the country, and drive them to the resort 

 of manufacturing for themselves; while, on the other hand, it would 

 cut off the means of making remittances in payment for the manu- 

 factures of Great Britain. 



Again, in writing to Lord Bathurst on September 25, 1815, he said 

 that these fisheries 



far from operating as an injury to Great Britain, had the ultimate 

 result of pouring into her lap a great portion of the profits of their 

 hardy and laborious industry ; that these fisheries afforded the means 

 of subsistence to a numerous class of people in the United States whose 

 habit of life had been fashioned to no other occupation, and whose 

 fortunes had allotted them no other possession ; that to another, and, 

 perhaps, equally numerous class of our citizens, they afforded the 

 means of remittance and payment for the productions of British in- 

 dustry and ingenuity, imported from the manufactures of this united 

 kingdom. 6 



The reference to an " equally numerous class of our citizens " who 

 were not fishermen, will be noted. These clearly were the citizens 

 who owned fishing vessels and employed fishermen, and otherwise 

 had money invested in the fishing industry. 



The considerations of expediency and policy urged by Mr. Adams 

 appealed to Lord Bathurst, and he wrote on October 30, 1815, in 

 reply to Mr. Adams 



But, though Great Britain can never admit the claim of the 

 United States to enjoy those liberties with respect to the fisheries, 

 as matter of right, she is by no means insensible to some of those 

 considerations with which the letter of the American minister con- 

 cludes. 6 



That the considerations, to which he refers, were not those of 

 "benevolence and humanity", which the British Case attributes to 

 the British negotiators of the treaty of 1818, is made clear by his ex- 

 planation that, although the British Government did not admit Mr. 

 Adams' claim that the American fishermen were entitled to a special 

 indulgence, yet his Government " do feel that the enjoyment of the 

 liberties formerly used by the inhabitants of the United States, may 

 be very conducive to their national and individual prosperity." c 



As a result of these considerations, Lord Bathurst stated that 

 Great Britain was willing to enter upon negotiations for a new 

 treaty, and ultimately the treaty of 1818 was the outcome. 



U. S. Case, p. 31. "U. S. Case, p. 32. c U. S. Case, p. 33. 



