I30 FISHERIES ARBITRATION AT THE HAGUE 



Those are the three commercial treaties, three treaties granting 

 trade and travel rights between the two countries, and they are 

 aU. 



Now, would it not be extraordinary if these gentlemen who 

 made the treaty of 1818, coming to grant these rights and intending 

 that there should be a right of municipal regulation over the exercise 

 of the right, should not put in the provision that was in every other 

 treaty that had been made ? They must have known of this great 

 hst of treaties I have detailed. They were not ignorant persons. 

 They knew something about the business in which they were en- 

 gaged. They were not simple, dull-witted Enghsh squires, as the 

 coimsel for Great Britain might seem to have you think. They 

 were men of exceptional ability and eminence. Mr. Goulburn was 

 Peel's Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was the negotiator, not 

 merely of the treaty of 1818, but of the treaty of 181 5, one 'of the 

 negotiators of the treaty of 1814, and the negotiator of the treaty 

 between Great Britain and Spain of 1818 — accomplished, able, 

 eminent. 



Mr. Robinson was of long experience in the diplomatic life of 

 Great Britain. He had been Secretary to the British Embassy at 

 Constantinople in 1807. He accompanied Lord Castlereagh to 

 Paris in 1814 when Europe was rearranged diplomatically; he 

 remained there with him until after the conclusion of the Treaty 

 of Paris in 181 5; he was Prime Minister of England as Viscount 

 Goderich, and became Earl of Ripon. 



Three of the men who made the treaty of 1818 made the treaty 

 of 181 5, in which this express reservation occurs: Robinson, Goul- 

 burn, both the British negotiators, and Gallatin of the American 

 negotiators. 



They could not have forgotten that. We know they could not 

 have forgotten that, because this treaty of 1818 re-enacts and carries 

 into its provisions the treaty of 181 5. The fourth article of the 

 treaty of 1818 is: 



"All the provisions of the convention 'to regulate the commerce between 

 the territories of the United States and of His Britannic Majesty,' concluded 

 at London on the third day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand 

 eight hundred and fifteen, with the exception of the clause which limited its 

 duration to four years, and excepting, also, so far as the same was affected 



