96 THE ARGUMENT OP THE UNITED STATES. 



deny Americans the assistance of non-inhabitants unless she had 

 denied her own subjects the like assistance. The British statutes, 

 which have been submitted in evidence by the two Governments, do 

 not show that Great Britain has undertaken to so limit her own fisher- 

 men. If there are any such limiting British statutes, it is sub- 

 mitted that Great Britain, on her own theory of the case, must 

 show them. 



