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late experiment, in the present state of Europe, and under its other engagements, 

 can seriously contemplate a renewal of hostilities. But it often happens with nations, 

 as well as with individuals, that a just estimate of its interests and duties is not an 

 infallible criterion of its conduct. We ought to be prepared at every point to guard 

 against such an event. You will be attentive to circumstances, and give us timely 

 notice of any danger which may be menaced. . 



NOTE, LORD BATHURST TO MR. BAKER, BRITISH CHARCfi D'AFFAIRES 

 AT WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 7, 1815 ' 



Foreign Office, September 7, 1815 



Sir: 



Your several dispatches to No. 25 inclusive have been received and laid before 

 the Prince Regent. 



The necessity of immediately dispatching this messenger with my preceding num- 

 bers prevents my replying to the various topics which your more recent communi- 

 cations embrace. I shall therefore confine myself to conveying to you the sentiments 

 of His Majesty's Government on the one requiring the most immediate explanation 

 with the Government of the United States, namely, the fisheries, premising the instruc- 

 tions I have to give to you on the subject, with informing you that the line which you 

 have taken in the discussion on that point, as explained in your No. 24, has met with 

 the approbation of His Majesty's Government. 



You will take an early opportunity of assuring Mr. Monroe that, as, on the one 

 hand, the British Government cannot acknowledge the right of the United States 

 to use the British territory for the purpose connected with the fishery, and that their 

 fishing vessels will be excluded from the bays, harbours, rivers, creeks, and inlets of 

 all His Majesty's possessions: so, on the other hand, the British Government does 

 not pretend to interfere with the fishery in which the subjects of the United States 

 may be engaged, either on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 or other places in the sea, without the jurisdiction of the maritime league from the 

 coasts under the dominion of Great Britain. 



Upon these principles, therefore, the case against which the American Govern- 

 ment has remonstrated, if well founded, was not authorized by His Majesty's 



Government. t . 



I am, etc. 



(Signed) . Bathurst. 



EXTRACT FROM DISPATCH, MR. ADAMS TO MR. MONROE, STATING 



SUBSTANCE OF A CONVERSATION WITH LORD BATHURST, 



SEPTEMBER 19, 1815 ^ 



Having formally renewed the claim for the restitution of the slaves carried away 

 contrary to the engagements of the treaty of peace, or for payment of their value as 

 the alternative, there were other objects which I deemed it necessary to present again 

 to the consideration of this Government. In the first instance, it seemed advisable 

 to open them by a verbal communication; and I requested of Lord Bathurst an 

 interview, for which he appointed the 14th instant, when I called at his office in Down- 

 ing Street. I said that, having lately received dispatches from you respecting several 



' Appendix, British Case, p. 64. 



2 Appendix, U. S. Case, pp. 264-265; Appendix, British Case, pp. 64-66. 



