MISCELLANEOUS. 1049 



6th. By the Convention, the liberty of entering the Bays and 

 Harbors of Nova Scotia for the purpose of purchasing wood and 

 obtaining water, is conceded in general terms, unrestricted by any 

 condition expressed or implied, limiting it to vessels duly provided at 

 the commencement of the voyage ; and we are of opinion that no such 

 condition can be attached to the enjoyment of the liberty. 



7th. The rights of Fishery ceded to the citizens of the United 

 States and those reserved for the exclusive enjoyment of British 

 subjects, depend altogether upon the Convention of 1818, the only 

 existing Treaty on this subject between the two countries, and the 

 material points arising thereon have been specifically answered in 

 our replies to the preceding Queries. 

 We have, etc., 



(Signed) J. DODSON, 



THOS. WILDE. 



VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, K. B., etc., etc. 



Mr. Grampian to Mr. Clayton. 



WASHINGTON, March 88, 1849. 



SIR: On the 12th of May, 1846, an address was voted by the 

 Canadian Parliament to her Majesty the Queen, praying that, in the 

 event of a change being made in the law regulating the admission of 

 foreign grain into the British markets, due regard should be had to 

 the interests of Canada; and, as a measure which would be greatly 

 conducive to this object, her Majesty was respectfully requested to 

 cause the necessary steps to be taken for opening a negotiation with 

 the government of the United States for the admission of the products 

 of Canada into their ports on the same terms that theirs are admitted 

 into the ports of Great Britain and that colony. 



To this request her Majesty was pleased to accede, and the governor 

 general of Canada was accordingly instructed by her Majesty's 

 principal secretary of state for the colonies, in a despatch dated June 

 3, 1846, to assure the legislative assembly that her Majesty would 

 readily cause directions to be given to her Majesty's minister at 

 Washington to avail himself of the earliest suitable opportunity to 

 press the important subject of the establishment of an equality of 

 trade between the dominions of the republic and British North 

 America on the notice of the United States government ; and that " it 

 would afford her Majesty the most sincere satisfaction if any com- 

 munication which might hereafter be held for this purpose should 

 have the effect which is desired by her faithful commons of Canada." 



An instruction to this effect was, in consequence, immediately ad- 

 dressed by her Majesty's government to Mr. Pakenham, her Majesty's 

 minister at Washington, directing him to bring this subject under the 

 serious consideration of the government of the United States, when- 

 ever he might consider the time to be favorable for pressing on their 

 attention a subject believed by her Majesty's government to be of 

 deep interest and importance both to Canada and the United States. 



As an important measure of a general nature in relation to the 

 tariff was pending in the Congress of the United States at the time 



