1162 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



statements officially denied at the time they were made by the repre- 

 sentatives of the United States. 



I refer now specifically to a letter from Mr. Forsyth, when Secre- 

 tary of State of the United States, to Mr. Stevenson, Minister for the 

 United States in Great Britain at that time, found in the Appendix 

 to the Case of Great Britain, p. 124, and to p. 126 of the same 

 volume, where the note of Secretary Forsyth is repeated by Mr. 

 Stevenson to Lord Palmerston in a letter dated the 27th March, 1841. 



The Secretary of State of the United States, in June 1843, wrote 

 a letter to Mr. Everett, then Minister for the United States in Great 

 Britain, which will be found in the Appendix to the Case of the 

 United States at p. 472. Mr. Everett wrote a letter to Lord Aberdeen, 

 dated the 10th August, 1843, containing such a statement, found in 

 the Appendix to the British Case, p. 131 ; and in a letter, under date 

 the 25th May, 1844, Mr. Everett made such a statement to Lord 



Aberdeen. 



701 In the debates in the Senate of the United States in 1852 

 similar statements were made by men versed in the knowledge 

 of this industry, and I respectfully refer the Tribunal to the state- 

 ment of Senator Davis, of Massachusetts, which appears in the Ap- 

 pendix to the British Case, p. 167,, and of Senator Soule, to be 

 found also in the Appendix to the British Case, at pp. 173 and 174; 

 and I desire specifically to refer to the report of the interview of 

 Mr. Lawrence, then American Minister at London, with Lord 

 Malmesbury, then at the head of the Foreign Office in Great Britain, 

 on the 7th day of August, 1852. It will be found on p. 517 of the 

 Appendix to the Case of the United States. I would like to read that 

 letter, in which Mr. Lawrence is reporting to his Government his 

 statement to Lord Malmesbury. 



" I said that I deeply regretted the course taken by her Majesty's 

 government; that the sending of nineteen armed vessels, without 

 notice, to those waters, (as stated in the provincial journals), ap- 

 peared to be a hostile movement, and one that could not but produce 

 unpleasant results; that courtesy demanded that after the right of 

 fishing had been claimed and exercised for thirty years, (whether 

 rightfully or wrongfully) such notice should be given to the govern- 

 ment of the United States as would enable it to seasonably proclaim 

 to all concerned the intentions of the British Government." 



There is no record anywhere of Lord Malmesbury ever contro- 

 verting this statement made by Mr. Lawrence. 



Eeference may also be made to a letter from Mr. Everett, when 

 Secretary of State, to the American Minister at London, written in 

 December 1852, which is found at p. 540 of the Appendix to the Case 

 of the United States. I particularly desire to have it noted, if the 

 Tribunal please, that the United States Minister was directed to read 



