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which it relates, will be to cause great inconvenience, and probable 

 future loss to Newfoundland. 



The Despatch referred to, with the previous communications from 

 Secretaries of State, will fully inform the Hon. the House of Assem- 

 bly, of the reasons, both general and particular, which have influenced 

 Her Majesty's Government in the decision at which they have ar- 

 rived; while from the copies of Despatches from the Governor's im- 

 mediate predecessor, and from the Governor himself communicating 

 his own opinions, and those of his constitutional advisers, it will be 

 perceived that the objections urged by the local authorities of New- 

 foundland to the additional privileges sought for by France, have 

 been clearly stated, and unreservedly expressed. 



The negotiations appear to have resulted in a modification both of 

 the demands and concessions originally proposed upon the part of 

 France. 



In laying before the Council, on behalf of Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment, the views contained in the Despatches of the Secretary of State, 

 before the completion of those formalities which are usually observed 

 at the commencement of the Legislative Session, the Governor has had 

 regard to the great interest and importance of the subject: And he 

 desires to express his confidence, that in deliberating upon those views, 

 the Legislature, while anxiously regarding, as in duty bounden, the 

 interests of Newfoundland, will not fail to recognize the weight of 

 those great International considerations which are so anxiously and 

 impressively urged throughout the communications from Her Maj- 

 esty's Government. 



(6th February, 1857.) C. H. D. 



Enclosures follow. 



[Inclosure No. 1.] 



Memorandum of Governor Harvey for Mr. William Thomas. 



[Confidential memorandum for the Agent to be appointed on the part of British Interests 

 to confer with Captain Le Fabvre on the subject of the fisheries on the coast of New- 

 foundland.] 



GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 

 St. John's, (Newfoundland), July 10, 1844- 



1. The object for which you have been selected to meet and con- 

 fer with Captain Le Fabvre as the agent of the French Government is 

 to consider the actual state of the existing intercourse and relations 

 between British subjects and French fishermen on the coast of New- 

 foundland generally, but more especially in relation to the supply of 

 bait by the former to the latter, and to endeavor to come to some 

 arrangement on the various points which have from time to time dis- 

 turbed the good understanding which it must consist with the inter- 

 ests as well as the desire of both nations to cultivate and to maintain, 

 and which it is evident can only be done by a due regard to those in- 

 terests respectively, and not by any reckless sacrifice on either part; 

 in a word, by a fair and equitable exchange of those advantages which 

 each party may have in its power to concede to the other. 



2. To aid rather than to guide you in arriving at such a result of 

 your discussions as may be beneficial to the great interests involved, 

 and satisfactory to Her Majesty's Government, is the sole object of 

 the following observations, to which it only remains for me to add, 



