1262 MISCELLANEOUS. 



mination to be satisfied- with no terms of accommodation which would 

 be entertained by our government; and, like everything else in Nova 

 Scotia on the subject of the fisheries, contain much that is erroneous 

 in statement of matters of fact, and that is unsound in questions of 

 political science* 



* These documents are as follows: 



RESOLUTIONS. 



1 . Resolved, That the citizens of Halifax feel deeply grateful to her Majesty's govern- 

 ment for the determination to "remove all ground of complaint on the part of the 

 colonies in consequence of the encroachments of the fishing vessels of the United 

 States upon the reserved fishing grounds of British America, ' ' expressed in the despatch 

 of the right honorable the Secretary of State for the colonies, dated the 22d of May . 



2. Resolved, That the citizens of Halifax have regarded with interest and satisfaction 

 the judicious measures adopted by Vice Admiral Sir George Seymour, to carry out that 

 determination with firmness and discretion. 



3. Resolved, That securely relying upon the justice and maternal care of their Sover- 

 eign, the citizens of Halifax are reluctant to believe that, because a few threatening 

 speeches have been made in Congress, and a single ship-of-war has visited their coasts, 

 the Queen's government will relax their vigilant supervision over British interests, or 

 weakly yield up rights secured by treaty stipulations. 



4. Resolved, That history teaches that the commercial prosperity and naval power 

 of every maritime state have risen, by slow degrees, from the prosecution of the fisheries, 

 in which seamen were trained and hardy defenders nurtured. 



5. Resolved, That reading this lesson aptly, the great commercial and political rivals 

 of England the United States and France have, for many years, fostered their 

 fisheries by liberal bounties, and freely spent their treasure that they might recruit 

 their navy and extend their mercantile marine. 



6. Resolved, That by the aid of these bounties France and the United States main- 

 tain, on the banks and coasts of North America, 30,000 seamen, respectively, which 

 either power, in case hostilities impend, can call home to defend its national flag, and, 

 if need were, launch against the power of this empire. 



7. Resolved, That without the aid of bounties the fisheries of British America have 

 been prosecuted, and her marine interests have expanded, until her shores are peopled 

 with a hardy class of men, who consume, almost exclusively, the manufactures of 

 England in peace, and who, in times of danger, would leap into the shrouds of their 

 national ships to defend the flag they reverence. 



8. Resolved, That the cession of the Aroostook territory, and the free navigation of 

 the St. John, the right of registry in colonial ports, and the free admission of the pro- 

 ductions of the United States into British America at revenue duties only, have been 

 followed by no corresponding relaxation of the commercial system of the United States 

 which would justify a further sacrifice of colonial interests. 



9. Resolved, That while more than one half of the seacoast of the republic bounds 

 slave States, whose laboring population cannot be trusted upon the sea, the coasts of 

 British America include a frontage upon the ocean greater than the whole Atlantic 

 seaboard of the United States. The richest fisheries in the world surround these coasts. 

 Coal, which the Americans must bring with them, should they provoke hostilities, 

 abounds at the most convenient points. Two millions of adventurous and industrious 

 people already inhabit these provinces, and the citizens of Halifax would indeed 

 deplore the deliberate sacrifice of their interests, by any weak concession to a power 

 which ever seconds the efforts of astute diplomacy by appeals to the angry passions 

 the full force of which has been twice on British America within the memory of this 

 generation, and, in a just cause, with the aid of the mother country, could be broken 

 again. 



ADDRESS. 



To his Excellency Colonel SIR J. GASPARD LEMARCHANT, Knight, and Knight Com- 

 mander of the Orders of St. Ferdinand and of Charles the Third of Spain, Lieutenant 

 Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over her Majesty's province of Nova Scotia 

 and its dependencie3, Chancellor of the same, &c. 



MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY: We, her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, 

 the mayor and aldermen of the city, and representatives of the city and county of 

 Halifax, respectfully request that your excellency will be pleased to transmit, by this 

 night's mail, to the right honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to be laid at 



