728 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



part of the offer made and accepted, and came in as new matter after- 

 wards. 



You will explain to secretary the impossibility of my changing the 

 subject of negotiation after an agreed valuation of that subject. 



Should the offer be retracted after its acceptance or new conditions 

 be imposed afterwards which would not have been entertained as an 

 original subject, I must regret that the effort to remove a serious ob- 

 stacle to friendly disposition of the fishery controversy should have 

 increased the difficulties which embarrass it. 



If the money is paid under the assurance authorized by my last, 

 telegraph me. If it is not, you may say to the secretary that this gov- 

 ernment will await his early attention to Nos. 109 and 110, which 

 must stand unaffected by anything which has passed since. 



EVARTS. 



Earl Granmlle to Sir E. Thornton. 



FOREIGN OFFICE, March 3, 1881. 



SIR, The United States Minister called upon me to-day, and com- 

 municated to me the substance of a telegraphic despatch from Mr. 

 Evarts, of which a copy is inclosed. I observed that I shared Mr. 

 Evarts' regret at our being unable so far to arrive at an agreement, 

 as I had looked forward to the great satisfaction of settling the mat- 

 ter with him ; but that if it was the fear of new claims which made 

 him hesitate to give the assurance required by Her Majesty's Gov- 

 ernment, he must remember that they ran a similar risk. I was not, 

 however, aware of any claims, excepting those which he had men- 

 tioned, though there had been brought to the notice of Her Majesty's 

 Government two cases, of which I furnished him with the particu- 

 lars, in which complaints had been made of the interruption of Amer- 

 ican vessels, the "Moro Castle " and "Minnesota " when engaged in 

 collecting bait. It did not appear that either of these cases was of 

 importance. 



I am, &c. (Signed) GRANVILLE. 



Earl Granmlle to Sir E. Thornton. 



FOREIGN OFFICE, March 3, 1881. 



SIR, I have received your telegraphic despatch of the 2nd instant, 

 and I have to state to you, in reply, that Her Majesty's Government 

 did not intend to put forward a fresh alternative, but desired only 

 to allude to the original offer made by the United States' Secretary 

 of State to have the matter referred to you and him, or else to Dele- 

 gates nominated respectively by each of you, with the addition that 

 provision should be made for reference to a third person in the event 

 of disagreement. 



I am, &c. (Signed) GRAXVILLE. 



