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success.* Naturally those interested (and this included the wealthiest merchants and the most 

 skillful mechanics, as well as the most indefatigable mariners) felt aggrieved. It seemed scarcely 

 in consonance with the colonial ideas of justice, crude as those notions appeared to the English 

 nobility, that the beneficial results of a conquest which they almost single-Landed Lad made, and 

 for defraying the expense of which England Lad declined any remuneration, should be diverted 

 to tLe sole benefit of those alone who were residents of the British Isles. Merchants in London, 

 too, whose heaviest and most profitable trade was with the provinces, joined their voices in 

 denouncing this wrong. During the early winter the report came that Palliser's regulations were, 

 suspended until the ministry and Parliament had time to consider the subject. TLe matter Lad 

 already, late in the last whaling season, been brought to the attention of the governor of New- 

 foundland, and he issued the following supplementary edict, which appeared in the Boston papers 

 of January, 1767: 



" l By His Excellency Hugh Palliser, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Island 

 of Newfoundland, the Coast of Labradore and all the Territories dependent thereupon : 



" < Whereas a great many Vessels from His Majesty's Plantations employed in the Whale- 

 Fishery resort to that Part of the Gulph of St. Lawrence and the Coast of Labradore which is 

 within this Government: and as I have been informed that some Apprehensions have arisen 

 amongst them that by the Regulations made by me relating to the different Fisheries in those 

 Parts, they are wholly precluded from that Coast : 



"'Notice is hereby given, That the King's officers stationed in those Parts have always Lad 

 my Orders to protect, assist and encourage by every Means in their Power, all Vessels from the 

 Plantations employed in the Whale-Fishery, coming within this Government; and, pursuant to 

 his Majesty's Orders to me, all Vessels from the Plantations will be admitted to that Coast on the 

 same Footing as they have ever been admitted in Newfoundland ; the ancient Practices and Cus- 

 toms established in Newfoundland respecting the Cod Fishery, under the Act of Parliament 

 passed in the 10 and llth Years of William Hid commonly called The Fishing Act, always to be 

 observed.t 



'' ' And by my Regulations for the Encouragement of the Whale Fisheries, they are also under 

 certain necessary Restrictions therein prescribed, permitted to land and cut up their Whales in 

 Labradore; this is a Liberty that has never been allowed them in Newfoundland, because of the 

 Danger of prejudicing the Cod-Fishery carried on by our adventurer's Ships, and by Boat- Keepers 

 from Britain, lawfully qualified with FisLing-Certificates according to the aforementioned Act, 

 who are fitted out at a very great Risque and Expenee in complying with said Act, therefore they 

 must not be liable to have their Voyages overthrown, or rendered precarious by any Means, or by 

 any other Vessels whatever. And, Whereas great Numbers of the Whaling Crews arriving from 

 the Plantations on the Coast of Labradore early in the Spring considering it as a lawless Country 

 are guilty of all Sorts of Outrages before the Arrival of the King's Ships, plundering whoever they 



" * The Boston News-Letter mentions the arrival of Capt. Peter Wells at that port from whaling August 18, 176U 

 Under date of October 2, the News- Letter says : ' Since our last a Number of Vessels have arrived from Whaling. They 

 have not been successful generally. One of them viz: Capt. Clark on Thursday Morning last discovering a Sperma- 

 ceti Whale near George's Banks, uiann'd his Boat, and gave Chase to her, & she coming up with her jaws against, the 

 Bow of the Boat struck it with such Violence that it threw a Son of the Captain ; (who was forward ready with his 

 Lance) a considerable Height from the Boat, and when he fell the Whale turned with her devouring Jaws opened, 

 and caught him. He was heard to scream, when she closed her Jaws, and part of his Body was seen out of her Mouth, 

 when she turned, and went off.' " 



" + Duties on oil imported in British ships were remitted, the commander and one-third of each crew being British. 

 Duties were also remitted on fat, furs, and tusks of seal, hear, walrus, or oilier marine animal taken in the Greenland 

 was. By other acts the imported materials to be used in outfitting were made non-dutiable, and bounties were estab- 

 lished, amounting in the final aggregate to 40s. per toil." 



