2032 NORTH ATLANTIC COAST FISHERIES ARBITRATION. 



list of treaties I have detailed. They were not ignorant persons. 

 They knew something about the business in which they were engaged. 

 They were not simple dull-witted English squires as the counsel for 

 Great Britain might seem to have you think. They were men of 

 exceptional ability and eminence. Mr. Goulburn was Peel's Chan- 

 cellor of the Exchequer. He was the negotiator, not merely of the 

 treaty of 1818. but of the treaty of 1815, one of the negotiators of the 

 treaty of 1814, and the negotiator of the treaty between Great 

 Britain and Spain of 1818 accomplished, able, eminent. 



Mr. Robinson was of long experience in the diplomatic life of 

 Great Britain. He had been Secretary to the British Embassy at 

 Constantinople in 1807. He accompanied Lord Castlereagh to Paris 

 in 1814 when Europe was rearranged diplomatically; he remained 

 there with him until after the conclusion of the Treaty of Paris in 

 1815 ; he was Prime Minister of England as Viscount Goderich, and 

 became Earl of Ripon. 



Three of the men who made the treaty of 1818 made the treaty of 



1815, in which this express reservation occurs; Robinson, Goulburn, 



both the British negotiators, and Gallatin of the American negotiators. 



They could not have forgotten that. We know they could 



1230 not have forgotten that, because this treaty of 1818 re-enacts 



and carries into its provisions the treaty of 1815. The fourth 



article of the treaty of 1818 is: 



"All the provisions of the convention ' to regulate the commerce 

 between the territories of the United States and of His Britannic 

 Majesty,' concluded at London on the third day of July, in the year 

 of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, with the excep- 

 tion of the clause which limited its duration to four years, and except- 

 ing, also, so far as the same was affected by the declaration of His 

 Majesty respecting the Island of St. Helena, are hereby extended 

 and continued in force for the term of ten years from the date of the 

 signature of the present convention, in the same manner as if all the 

 provisions of the said convention were herein specially recited." 



This reference to the declaration regarding the Island of St. 

 Helena refers to the very clause of the treaty of 1815 from which 

 I have read to you the express reservation of the right of municipal 

 regulation. 



So here you have in this treaty the same men who made the treaty 

 of 1815, and who put into it the express reservation of the right of 

 municipal regulation, re-enacting it here with that clause, and at the 

 same time granting this right to the United States for its inhabitants 

 to enter upon the territory of Great Britain, and subject it to their 

 use this right which Lord Bathurst has already called in the letter, 

 which was the corner-stone of the negotiation resulting in the treaty, 

 the right of an independent nation to enter and use at its discretion 



