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3. A confinement of the boundaries of Canada, at least to what they 

 were, before the last Act of Parliament, I think in 1774, if not to a 

 still more contracted State, on an ancient footing. 



4. A freedom of fishing on the banks of Newfoundland and else- 

 where, as well for fish as whales. I own I wonder'd he should have 

 thought it necessary to ask for this privilege. He did not mention 

 the leave of drying fish on shore in Newfoundland, and I said nothing 

 of it. I don't remember any more articles which he said they would 

 insist on, or what he called necessary for them to be granted. 



Then as to the advisable articles, or such as he would as a friend 

 recommend to be offered by England, viz. : 



1. To indemnify many people who had been ruined by towns burnt 

 and destroyed. The whole might not exceed the sum of five or six 

 hundred thousand pounds. I was struck at this. However, the doc- 

 tor said, though it was a large sum, it would not be ill-bestowed ; as it 

 would conciliate the resentment of a multitude of poor sufferers, who 

 could have no other remedy, and who without some relief, would keep 

 up a spirit of secret revenge and animosity for a long time to come, 

 against Great Britain: whereas a voluntary offer of such reparation, 

 would diffuse an universal calm and conciliation over the whole 

 country. 



2. Some sort of acknowledgment in some public Act, of Parliament 

 or otherwise, of our error in distressing those countries so much as we 

 had done. A few words of that kind the doctor said, would do more 

 good than people could imagine. 



3. Colony ships and trade to be received and have the same priyi- 

 leges in Britain and Ireland, as British ships and trade. I did not 

 ask any explanation on that head for the present. British and Irish 

 ships in the colonies to be in like manner on the same footing with 

 their own ships. 



4. Giving up every part of Canada. 



. . . He showed me a copy of the enabling Bill as it is called, arid 

 said he observed the word revolted was left out and likewise added 

 that the purpose of it was to dispense with Acts of Parliament which 

 they were indifferent about, and that now they were better prepared 

 for war, and more able to carry it on than ever they were. That he 

 had heard we entertained some expectation of retaining some sort of 

 sovereignty over them, as His Majesty had of Ireland : and that if we 

 thought so, we should find ourselves much disappointed, for they 

 would yield to nothing of that sort. . . . 



From this conversation I have some hopes, my Lord, that it is pos- 

 sible to put an end to the American quarrel in a short time, and when 

 that is done. I have a notion that a treaty with the other Powers will 

 go more smoothly on. The doctor did not, in the course of the above 

 conversation, hesitate as to a conclusion with them, on account of any 

 connection with those other States; and in general seemed to think 

 their American affair must be ended by a separate Commission. On 

 these occasions I said I supposed, in case of such commission he meant 

 that the power of granting independence, would be therein expressly 

 mentioned. He said, no doubt. I hinted this, thinking it better in the 

 power of treating to include independence, than to grant independence 

 separately, and then to treat about other matters with the commis- 

 sioners of such independent States, who by such grant are on the same 

 footing with the Ministers of the other Powers. By anything the 



