ARGUMENT OF JOHN S. EWABT. 1259 



In the letter of Mr. Adams to Mr. Monroe, Mr. Adams purports 

 to recount the conversation which he had had with Lord Bathurst, 

 but he gave that conversation in two letters, once to Mr. Monroe and 

 once to Lord Bathurst ; and what I wish to point out is that he does 

 not give at all the same account of the conversation in these two 

 letters. 



Before pointing that out, may I ask the Tribunal to observe that 

 Mr. Adams, in his letter to Mr. Monroe, tells him that Lord Bath- 

 urst had written a letter to Mr. Baker upon the subject, and that Mr. 

 Baker had probably received it before Mr. Monroe would receive the 

 letter from him Mr. Adams? And may I also call attention to the 

 fact that Mr. Adams, in his letter to Mr. Monroe, does not wish Mr. 

 Monroe to depend upon the conversation as he Mr. Adams re- 

 lated it to Mr. Monroe, but that he asks Mr. Monroe to see whether 

 the letter from Bathurst to Baker is as Mr. Adams indicates in his 

 letter it is? 



At p. 66, in the last paragraph of Mr. Adams' letter to Mr. Mon- 

 roe, he says this: 



" The answer which was so promptly sent to the complaint relative 

 to the warning of the fishing vessels, by the Captain of the Jaseur, 

 will probably be communicated to you before you will receive this 

 letter/' 



759 That is, referring to the letter from Lord Bathurst to Mr. 

 Baker. Continuing, the letter reads: 



" You will see whether it is so precise, as to the limits within which 

 they are determined to adhere to the exclusion of our fishing vessels, 

 as Lord Bathurst's verbal statement of it to me, namely, to the extent 

 of one marine league from their shores. Indeed, it is to the curing 

 and drying upon the shore that they appear to have the strongest 

 objection." 



Will the Tribunal be kind enough to observe what it is that Mr. 

 Adams attributed to Lord Bathurst (at the top of p. 65 of the Ap- 

 pendix to the British Case, about 10 lines down) : 



" I asked him " 



That is, Mr. Adams asked Lord Bathurst 



" if he could, without inconvenience, state the substance of the answer 

 that had been sent." 



That was the letter to Mr Baker. 



" He said, certainly : It had been that as, on the one hand, Great 

 Britain could not permit the vessels of the United States to fish 

 within the creeks and close upon the shores of the British territories, 

 so, on the other hand, it was by no means her intention to interrupt 

 them in fishing anywhere in the open sea, or without the territorial 

 jurisdiction, a marine league from the shore; " 



