1046 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



would be of very great assistance to us, but it may not be possible 

 after so long a time has elapsed. 



MR. WARREN : Mr. President, counsel for the United States submit 

 that we will have no trouble whatever to answer the question put. I am 

 only stating now the claim of Great Britain as advanced to the 

 United States. I mentioned the letter to Mr. Baker, the British 

 charge in Washington before the arrival of Mr. Bagot as Minister, 

 and in the natural order of the argument, the Baker letter, the inter- 

 view between Lord Bathurst and Mr. Adams, and the subsequent let- 

 ter from Mr. Adams to Lord Bathurst will be discussed. I will here 

 Mr. President, replying to the question which you put, call to the 

 attention of the Tribunal the fact that the contention of the United 

 States does not rely solely upon Lord Bathurst's own definition of 

 the Baker letter, because Mr. Adams took the precaution, as shown 

 on p. 2G9 of the Appendix to the Case of the United States, to restate 

 to Lord Bathurst what Lord Bathurst had stated to him, and in the 

 restatement of Lord Bathurst's position used the same definition of 

 the Baker letter that Lord Bathurst had used when stating the con- 

 tents of it to Mr. Adams. 



THE PRESIDENT : You used the expression the "Adams letter." 

 MR. WARREN : I referred the Tribunal to Mr. Adams' letter to Lord 

 Bathurst, which is printed, commencing on p. 268 of the Appendix 

 to the Case of the United States, and I had just commenced to read 

 an extract from that letter, to be found on p. 269. Mr. Adams made 

 a statement there to Lord Bathurst of what Lord Bathurst had stated 

 to him : 



" your lordship did also express it as the intention of the British 

 Government to exclude the fishing vessels of the United States, here- 

 after, from the liberty of fishing within one marine league of the 

 shores of all the British territories in North America." 



THE PRESIDENT : That is consistent with the report Mr. Adams had 

 made to Mr. Monroe and not consistent with the letter of Lord 

 Bathurst 



MR. WARREN : To Mr. Baker, Mr. President. 



THE PRESIDENT : To Mr. Baker. 



MR. WARREN : If the Tribunal please, the United States will under- 

 take, at a later point in the argument, to show that Mr. Adams' defi- 

 nition of the letter is quite consistent with the position taken ; but, in 

 any event, it is to be observed that the Baker letter forms no part of 

 the correspondence with the United States. Mr. Baker had already 

 written his letter to the Secretary of State for the United States 

 about the " Jaseur " incident, before the receipt by him of the letter 

 from Lord Bathurst, dated the 7th September, 1815, which related to 

 the " Jaseur " incident. 



THE PRESIDENT: What do you mean by the Baker letter? 



