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I beg to state, in reply, that I have transmitted your lordship's 

 inquiry to the Department of State, and shall have the honor of 

 addressing your lordship another communication on the subject as 

 soon as I receive an answer. 



I have, &c. J. E. LOWELL. 



Mr. West to Mr. FrelingJiuysen. 



BRITISH EMBASSY, 

 Washington, 9 October 1883. 



SIR : Referring to a communication from Earl Granville conveyed 

 to me in a despatch copy of which I had the honor to place in your 

 hands on the 3rd of August of last year respecting the revision of 

 the Fishery regulations, I have the honor to inform you that His 

 Lordship has requested me again to bring this matter before the 

 United States Government. 



Although notice has been given by the United States Government 

 of their intention to terminate the fishery Articles of the Treaty of 

 Washington in two years time from the 1st of July last no further 

 communication has been as yet received by Her Majesty's Government 

 relative to the proposed revision of the regulations for the protection 

 of the fisheries in Newfoundland waters, and Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment are anxious that in the interval no cause of difference should 

 arise between the fishermen of Newfoundland and those of the United 

 States who may resort to those waters. 



They would be glad therefore, to know the views of the Government 

 of the United States on the proposed revision. At the same tune Her 

 Majesty's Government hope that in the interval before the termina- 

 tion of the Fishery Articles in question, the Government of the 

 United States will agree to let the disputed question of Treaty rights 

 remain in abeyance and will unite with Her Majesty's Government in 

 carrying out the revision of the Fishery regulations in the spirit and 

 with the object indicated by Mr. Evarts in his letter to Mr. Welsh of 

 the 1st of August, 1879, in which it is said that " there is no intention 

 " on the part of the United States Government that privileges should 

 " be abused and no desire that their full and free enjoyment should 

 " harm the Colonial fishermen. While the different interests and 

 " methods of the shore fishery and the vessel fishery make it impos- 

 " sible that the regulation of the one should be entirely given to the 

 " other, yet if the mutual obligations of the Treaty of 1871 are to be 

 " maintained, the United States Government would gladly co-operate 

 " with the Government of Her Britannic Majesty in any effort to 

 " make those regulations a matter of reciprocal convenience and right, 

 " a means of preserving the Fisheries at their highest point of pro- 

 " duction and of conciliating a community of interest by a just 

 " proportion of advantages and profits." 



In expressing therefore the hope on the part of Her Majesty's 

 Government that this matter may receive the early consideration of 



<* See Granville to West, July 15, 1882, ante, p. 745. 



