124 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC., 



in as a memorandum of his statement the paper marked E, annexed 

 to the present protocol. 



The British plenipotentiaries, after making such inquiries of Mr. 

 Rush as they deemed conducive to a thorough understanding of the 

 points in question, agreed to meet him again in conference on Thurs- 

 day, the 1st of April. 



RICHARD RUSH. 



W. HUSKISSON. 



STRATFORD CANNING. 

 E. 



American paper on the Newfoundland Fishery, (Tenth Protocol.) 



By the thirteenth article of the treaty of Utrecht of 1713 the sov- 

 ereignty of the island of Newfoundland was ceded by France to 

 Great Britain, France being allowed the right of fishing, and of dry- 

 ing fish, from Cape Bonavista, on the eastern coast, to the northern 

 extremity of the island, and thence along the western coast to the 

 place called Pointe Riche, but on no other ports. 



The provisions of this treaty were renewed and confirmed by that 

 of Aix-la-Chapelle of 1748, and also, as far as relates to Newfound- 

 land and the French fisheries on its coast, by the treaty of Paris of 

 1763. 



By the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Brit- 

 ain of September 3, 1783, article third, it is stipulated that " the in- 

 habitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every 

 kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen 

 shall use, but not to dry or cure the same on that island." 



By the treaty of the same date between Great Britain and France, 

 articles fourth and fifth, the right of Great Britain to this island was 

 confirmed, (the small adjacent islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon 

 being excepted,) and the right of the French to fish on a certain part 

 of the eastern coast, as above recited, was exchanged for that of fish- 

 ing on the remainder of the eastern and on the whole of the western 

 coast, as far down from the north as Cape Ray. See also the decla- 

 ration and counter declaration of the plenipotentiaries of the two 

 Governments annexed to this treaty, which are material as respects 

 fishing rights. 



By the treaty of Paris of 1814, between Great Britain and France, 

 the former restores to the latter the colonies, fisheries, factories, and 

 establishments of every kind which France possessed on the first of 

 January, 1792, in the seas, or on the continents of America, Asia, 

 and Africa, with the exception of Tobago, St. Lucie, and the Isle 

 of France. By the nineteenth article of this treaty it is declared 

 that, " as to the French right of fishery on the grand bank of New- 

 foundland, on the coasts of the island of that name, and the ad- 

 jacent islands, and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, everything shall be 

 restored to the same footing as in 1792." 



Finally, by the convention of October 20, 1818, between the United 

 States and Great Britain, it is provided, article first, that " the in- 

 habitants of the said United States shall have forever, in common 

 with the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, the liberty to take fish 

 of every kind on that part of the southern coast of Newfoundland 

 which extends from Cape Ray to the Rameau islands, and on the 



