624 MISCELLANEOUS 



(July, 1823.} 



8th. * * * The Count de Menou came to enquire where were 

 the Quirpon Islands; I showed him upon Mitchell's map. We had 

 much conversation upon the subject of the French claim to exclusive 

 fishery from them to Cape Ray. He said he had received further 

 instructions from the Viscount de Chateaubriand on this affair, but 

 there were still two previous instructions which he had not received. 

 He saw it was an affair of great delicacy, and he did not see how they 

 and we could enjoy a concurrent right of fishery on the same coast. 



I told him the whole affair was a question between France and 

 Great Britain, with which we had but a secondary concern. Great 

 Britain was bound to maintain her own jurisdiction. And if she 

 had conceded to us a right which she had already granted as an 

 exclusive possession to France, she must indemnify us for it. The 

 Count spoke also upon the subject of the maritime questions arisen 

 from the war between France and Spain, upon which he said he 

 should write to me. 



Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Crampton. 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 

 Washington, 19th Aug*., 1848. 

 JOHN F. CRAMPTON, Esq 



&c. &c. &c. 



SIR: I have had the honor to receive your note of the 30th April 

 last, objecting, on behalf of the British Government, to that clause 

 in the fifth article of the late treaty between Mexico and the United 

 States, by which it is declared, that " the boundary line between 

 the two Republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico three 

 leagues from land ", instead of one league from land, which you 

 observe "is acknowledged by international law and practice as the 

 extent of territorial jurisdiction over the sea that washes the coasts 

 of States." 



In answer, I have to state, that the stipulation in the treaty can 

 only affect the rights of Mexico and the United States. It is for 

 their mutual convenience it has been deemed proper to enter into 

 such an arrangement, third parties can have no just cause of com- 

 plaint. The Government of the United States never intended by 

 this stipulation to question the rights which Great Britain or any 

 other Power may possess under the law of nations. 



I avail myself pi the opportunity to renew to you, Sir, the assurance 

 of my high consideration. 



JAMES BUCHANAN. 



Extract from speech of Hon. Amos Tuck in the House of Represent- 

 atives of the United States. 



[Congressional Globe, vol. 25, 1851-2, p. 1186.] 

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AUGUST 27, 1852. 



From the first of September to the close of this season, the mack- 

 erel run near the shore, and it is next to impossible for pur vessels 

 to obtain fares without taking fish within the prohibited limits. We 



