APPENDICES TO ORAL ARGUMENTS. 2253 



The Hon. Charles Bagot to Lord C asflereagh. 



WASHINGTON, November 10, 1816. 



MY DEAR LORD, I am again disappointed in not being able to 

 acquaint you with this packet that the convention respecting the 

 fisheries has been concluded. 



Immediately on my return to Washington, on the 14th of last 

 month, I called upon Mr. Monroe, who had arrived a few days pre- 

 viously, to inquire whether he had yet received the information which 

 he had been so long expecting, in regard to the portions of coast 

 which I had offered for the purpose of the American fishery, and 

 whether he was then prepared to proceed with the convention. He 

 told me that he had received a great mass of information, and, he 

 believed, nearly all that was requisite on the subject, but that he had 

 had so little time to examine it that it would not be possible for him 

 to go then into the question ; but he assured me that, before the meet- 

 ing of Congress, the 2nd December, he would acquaint me positively 

 whether it was the intention of the President that the business should 

 be proceeded in, or whether the offer which I had made would be 

 rejected. 



I have as yet only offered the choice of one of the two proposed 

 coasts ; but I begin to suspect that Mr. Monroe is alarmed at the idea 

 of accepting any proposal by which the pretension of right which has 

 been made must be for ever renounced. I shall certainly know the 

 determination of the Government in the course of this month. 



In the despatches which I have sent home by this packet, 

 1362 your Lordship will see the course which has been taken by 

 this Government in regard to that abominable proceeding of 

 Captain Warrington's. In the note which I have returned to that 

 of Mr. Monroe, enclosing the Report of the Court of Inquiry, I have 

 endeavoured to show how little satisfactory such a report is, but have 

 tried to lay the ground for abandoning or reserving the business, as 

 your Lordship may direct. 



I have, &c. CHARLES BAGOT. 



