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Lord Granmlle to Mr. Lowell. 



FOREIGN OFFICE, August 89, 1881. 



SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of the com- 

 munication which you were good enough to address to me on the 19th 

 instant, in which, by Mr. Elaine's direction, you invite the attention 

 of Her Majesty's Government to certain facts which tend to show, it 

 is alleged, a determination on the part of the native fishermen of New- 

 foundland to oppose the exercise by the fishermen of the United 

 States of the privileges secured to them by treaty on the coast of 

 Newfoundland. 



In reply I beg leave to state that the friendly language in which 

 this representation from your government is couched is fully appre- 

 ciated by Her Majesty's Government, and I need not assure you that 

 it shall be considered by them with all the care demanded by the 

 importance of the interests concerned. 



I have, &c., GRANVIIXE. 



Lord Granmlle to Mr. Hoppin. 



FOREIGN OFFICE, November 17, 1881. 



SIR: Referring to the letter which I had the honor to address to 

 Mr. Lowell on the 29th of August last, I now beg leave to state to 

 you that Her Majesty's principal secretary of state has been in com- 

 munication with the government of Newfoundland in regard to the 

 observations which Mr. Lowell had been instructed to address to Her 

 Majesty's Government respecting the line of conduct which, it is 

 alleged, is adopted by the fishermen of the colony towards the fisher- 

 men of the United States, showing, as Mr. Lowell represents, the 

 existence of a determined opposition on their part to the exercise of 

 their treaty privileges by the American fishermen. 



I have now the honor of stating to you that the attention of the 

 government of Newfoundland has been particularly directed by the 

 Earl of Kimberly to that portion of Mr. Lowell's letter of the 19th of 

 August, in which it is suggested that the authorities in the colony 

 should maintain and enforce the rights conferred within their juris- 

 diction upon citizens of the United States, and especially that they 

 should place at the baiting stations and on the frequented portions of 

 the coast, officials with sufficient authority to restrain outbreaks of 

 violence. 



The government of Newfoundland, in reply, fully recognize the 

 importance of the subject to which their attention has thus been 

 directed, but they point out, with reference to the case of the Ameri- 

 can vessel which is cited by Mr. Lowell as having been taken pos- 

 session of by a large and angry mob, her anchor cut, and her sails set, 

 for the avowed purpose of drifting her upon the rocks, that it is some- 

 what remarkable that not only was no complaint made by the master 

 of this vessel to a magistrate, but that neither he nor his crew should 

 have mentioned the subject until he had returned to the United States 

 and the claims of other fishermen were being brought forward for 

 adjudication. 



