ARGUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM KOBSON. 1627 



Where? 

 " within the exclusive jurisdiction of Great Britain." 



Now, I say that that is language used very inappropriately, if all 

 that time he had what Mr. Turner says he had, a partial sovereignty. 

 That is not the kind of language which would have come into the 

 mind of a great master of language like Mr. Adams. I need not 

 quote his remarks further, because he proceeds with his old argument, 

 and says that no new grant was intended. He lays immense stress 

 on that undue stress, I think that no new grant was intended, 

 " but only the continuance of what we had previously enjoyed ; " and 

 enjoyed, as he keeps on saying, " within the exclusive jurisdiction of 

 Great Britain." 



Before I give other instances of the same kind, let me refer to the 

 United States Argument, p. 16, in which it is said what the question 

 is that we have to decide. The words are italicized, on p. 16 : 



" The United States submits that the question at issue between the 

 two Governments is as to what regulation of the freedom of the 

 fishery in the matter of the time and manner of taking -fish remain* 



part of British sovereignty over waters within which exclusive 

 984 sovereignty over the fishery has been parted with by Great 



Britain by virtue of its grant to the United States of an equal 

 right in the said fishery" 



Now, therefore, their case here is that exclusive sovereignty has 

 been parted with. That is not Mr. Adams' view. It was not Mr. 

 Adams' view of the treaty of 1783, and it is still less his view of the 

 treaty of 1818. 



Let me continue these few extracts. Mr. Bagot writes to Mr. 

 Monroe, and he makes it perfectly clear. He says, on p. 77 of the 

 British Case Appendix, at the beginning of the letter, writing to 

 Mr. Monroe, the United States Secretary of State : 



" In the conversation which I had with you a few days ago, upon 

 the subject of the negotiation into which the British Government 

 is willing to enter, for the purpose of affording to the citizens of the 

 United States such accommodation for their fishery, within the 

 British jurisdiction, as may be consistent with the proper administra- 

 tion of His Majesty's dominions," 



That is the only passage I need refer to. Then he says later on, in 

 the second paragraph from the bottom, about the fourth line down 

 from the top of the paragraph, that this accommodation is 



'" the privilege of having an adequate accommodation, both in point 

 of harbours and drying ground, on the unsettled coasts within the 

 British sovereignty," 



Then he says, on p. 78, in the first paragraph on the top of that 

 page : 



" The advantages of this portion of coast are accurately known to 

 the British Government; and, in consenting to assign it to the uses 



