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LONDON, FRIDAY, ArGUST 20.

Tits apologists of the Derby Administration can-
not ha%e read the despatches of their patrons already
made public when they tell the public that it was
never intended to exclude tie American fishers front
a greeter distance from British coasts than three
miles; and they must have forgotten that assertion
when they subsequently assure us that an arrange-
mien, of the dispute has been made on terms of also-
lute reciprocity. For, in not one of the official
papers that has yet apenred is there a
single syllable about excluding the Ameri-
cans only from three miles of the Bntish
shorce ; and if that were the whole of their original
intention in sending nineteen armed vessels into
those seas, how comes it that it is now announced
as the terms of compromise of the dispute which
their larger measures begot ?
!here are two documents in print showing what
the PERIIT Cabinet meant ; and they are in perfect
conformity and accord with each other. One is
Sir Jour P.MINGTON.4 Circular Despatch to
the Governors of the North American Colonies
of 'Nth May heat ; the other is Mr. Collar's
Note to the American Secretary of State of
the sth of July following. In the former, the policy
of HER 11,tmerv's Government was announced to the
Colonial authorities; in the latter it was notified to
the United States Government. Between these two
dates a period of upwards of five weeks elapsed ;
the Atlantic being now crossed in twelve days. Up-
wards of three weeks were therefore lost in commu-
nicating to the American Government a determina-
tion seriously affecting the interests and property of
its citizens; in support of which meanwhile a
naval squadron was ordered into the North
American seas. For what was that determina-
tion ? It was, as announced by Sir JOll,l PAKINGTON,
" to remove all grounds of complaint on the part of
the colonies, in consequence of the encroachments of
the fishing vessels of the United States upon those
srafirs,froos which M 5 are exclude! by Me terms of
Me Cum-ratios of 181 N, No limitation here of three
miles only from British shores—" all grounds of
complaint " were to be removed, and a small naval
force was to be despatched, "as soon as possible, to
enforce the observance of that Convention. _

This, we repeat, was a determination of very
great importance to the United States ;
by every. rule of international courtesy, and
every motive of self-interest, there ought to have
been no delay in communicating itto the American
Gurernment. A delay of three week!. however,
occurred; in the interval the British naval force had
begun to act on the instructions referred to by Sir
JOHN PARINGTON and before Mr. CRAMPTON bad
notified to Mr. WEBSTER the determination which

liVe weeks before Sir J. PAKINGTON had conveyed
to tho British colonies, the British squadron
had made at least one seizure. The official an-

noubeement, therefore, came on Mr. WEBSTER
as a hostile measure; and the consequences of
the impression so given it by this delay and this in-
termediate act of violence, we have all seen and de-
plored. For the imminence of the danger thus run,
the country is indebted to Lord DERBY S having se-
lected for the conduct of our colonial and foreign
affairs two men deficient, not merely in experience,
but in the most common foresight, who in an attempt
to please the colonists, seem completely to have for-
gotten the existence of the United States.
The sending a fleet into the American seas was,
so doubt, intended by these braggarts to be a great
stroke of policy ; evidence at once of their superior
pluck, and of their thorough determination not to be
trilled with. Its object was announced to the
colonies—" to enforce the observance of the conven-
tion ;" its presence was notified to the American
Government—" to enforce the terms of the treaty."
Well ; after taking some five or six offending smacks,
and so rousing American indignation, we are told
by the Tory prints at home that it was never in.
tended to enforce the observance of the con-
vention; but that it was only meant to drive
away vessels within three miles of the British
coasts ; and from acmes the Atlantic moo
news that the British minister at Washing-
ton bad w,itten to the Foreign-office "urging it to
suspend orders and to withdraw the British
stiamir.m." Moat lame and impotent eanabsions.
Why, this is more humiliating far them baying our
vaissionsries drummed oat of Ilan ,one
jests eat dm la the draft of mad meanly
aired by Lied MALXIIIIII7IIT 2401- fee ths
which newly east bin hie Mr and a British
aiaai-
master dep tea of his weaved= at Naples.
It is won* than framßistas it is desseneas : for
this an xiet to ester fres Ss esasegassee of its own
dete ' , this s uni la abandon the whole
treaty of 1818, this alum is the presence of Ameri-
can rentamsreace and preparation, mast give en-

==.llto the very- wont feature in the
114milmet ehereeter, that of boastful supe-
riority, lien Male Ana to believe that what they
wish they MO to attain. Bash American
atas *ismer Brine digisancy, are more
dam man war; for they cestirm that law-
ef that dudes fir further tern-
emaisitise, that system of lisigandile, which
its their malts "BIM soca NIS ant felt in Mexico,
aria is Oahe, sad are already se ran to Japan.
And manly to tablet the Anerviness 611111 Skein
within these miler of British corn is te wholly
abstain then maiden of the treaty of Ghent
whisk nee the they paid in ItslH for the large
amemisas main dini is other parts of the British
wenn la Marth America. Poe by public law every
Haslet tees neheirs Jurisdiction within that dis-
hrags In shores ; it requires no treaty to pre-
mat say fordip Ashaseanuag within that limit ; it
is so man ones es an ear rims or our harbours. Such
an seengemon thesis aspitelates the 'amnia-
tory sequin of tbs of 111111; it will increase
the camplents of air eriasiely a A" of which lie
lons Pa ICINOTON ana01•11111 to duo HER Manart's
present Ministers would r num r it is amply and
purely a transference of the limierthey seat eat a
squadron to protect, to the American people. Were
it not that a respectable many print has an-
nounced such an arrangement as haviag been
concluded, without any anesponding care hav-
ing been taken to wen equality and fair-
ness in fishing in the waters thus thrown open,
we should have regarded the statement as incre-
dible.

For even in 1843, when Lord As&Roca", opened
the Bay of Fundy to the American fisheries, he sub-
mitted to the American Government the propriety
of making scounter concession " by the reduction of
the duties which operate so prejudicially to the
interests of the British colonial fishermen." And
though in reply, Mr. EVERETT attemrted to make out
that those duties were merely an equivalent
to the American fishers for the advantages
the colonists had in their greater vicinity
to the waters so opened up, he altogether forgot
that, in addition to duties against Bntish fish, the
Americans have a bounty on their own take ; and if
the abolition of this duty were necessary in 1445,
when we were only throwing open the Bay of
Fundy, how much more needful must it be in 18.12,
when, as it appears, we are giving the Americans the
right of fishing in every other British water ?
But how hopeless to expect anything great or ,
useful from a Ministry which, in its attempt to grasp
for the colonists all them fisheries, hastily withdraws
its hands and leaves them nothing to monopolise.

INCREA4E OF BUSINESS AT THE POST-OFFICE:,
In con,quenee of the retest extraordinary increase of duty
at the Post ~.ffice, in St Martin's-1,-41 and, the messengers
in the inland office, upon the middle scale of wages, have
received notification ham the Postmaster-Oenerel, of the
intention of the Lords of her Majery's Trelsar, to increase*
their ',Diaries. A considerable number of additional wa-
s/mem are also to be appointed, at fill. per annum. Some
of the senior men in the London District-011es have been
hilbrated also, that a slight increase is to be made in their
wtekt pay. The,. change., however, by no means affect
the interests of the general body of these useful public
iffiaabl, many of whom ate moth disappointed in con-
sequence.