The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE BOSTON COURIER.

"Sir,—since my
" Boston, July 20, 1852.
have received a copy of a dispatch from Mr. Everett,
return to the city this morning, I
then United States Minister in London, to Mr. Bu-
chanan, Secretary of State, which adds a very
impor-
tant feature to the subject of the fisheries, and which I
send to you for immediate publication.
" Yours respectfully,
" DANIEL WEBSTER.

SI
TO JAMES BITCHANAN, ESQ., SECRETARY OF STATE.
" London, April 26, 1845.
Sir,—With my dispatch, No. 278, of March 25th,
I transmitted the note of Lord Aberdeen, of the 10th of
March, communicating the important information that
this Government had come to the determination to con-
cede to American fishermen the right of pursuing
their
occupation within the bay of Fundy. It was lett some-
what uncertain by Lord Aberdeen's note whether this
concession was intended to be confined to the Bel of
Fundy, or to extend to other portions of the
coasts of the Anglo-American possessions to which
the principles contended for by the Government of
the United States equally apply, and particularly
to the waters on the north-eastern shores of Cape Bre-
ton, where the Argus was captured. In my notes of
the 25th ult. and 2d instant, on the subject
Washington and the Argus, I was careful to point out
to Lord Aberdeen that all the reasons for admitting the
right of Americans to fish in the Bay of Fundy (TOY
to those waters; and with superior force, inasmnch
as
they are less landlocked than the Bay of Fundy, and to
express the hope that the concession was meant to ex-
tend to them, which there was some reason to think from
the mode in which Lord Aberdeen expressed himself was
the case.
" I received last evening the answer of his Lordship,
informing me that my two notes had been referred to
o
the Colonial-office, and that a final reply could not
returned till he should be made acquainted with the re-
sult of that reference, and that in the mean time the con-
cession must be understood to be limited to the Bay of
Fundy.
" ' The merits of the question are so clear that I can-
not but anticipate that the decision of the Colonial-office
vention. In the mean time I beg
will be in favour of the literal construction of the con-
in any public notice which may leave to suggest that
of Fundy is henceforth open to American fishermen, it
should be carefully stated that the extension of the same
be given that the Bay
privilege to the other great bays on the coast of the.
Anglo-American dependencies is a matter of negotia-
tion between the two Governments. My notes of the
25th of March and 2d inst. will suggest the reason for
presenting the actual state of the controversy in this
form. " I am, Sir, with great respect,
"Your obedient servant,
. EDWARD EVERETT."
‘.
In the Senate on 23d Mr. Meson °ff''red the follow-
ing resolution relative to the Newfoundland fisheries
question:—
" That the President of the United Slates be re-
quested to communicate to the Senate, if not incom-
patible with the public interest, all correspondence on
File in the Executive Department with the Govrnment
of England or its diplomatic representatiess since the
convention between the United States and Great Bri-
tain of October 20, 1818, touching the fisheries on the
coasts of the British possessions in North America and
the rights of citizens of the United States engaged in
such fisheries as secured by the said convention; and
that the President be also requested to inform the
Senate whether any of the naval forces of the United
States have been ordered to the seas adjacent to the
British possessions in North America to protect the
rights of American fishermen under the said convention
Of 1818 since the receipt of the intelligence that a large
and unusual British naval force has been ordered there
to enforce certain alleged rights of Great Britain under
such convention."
A lengthy debate then ensued, in which Mr. Mason
contended that the British Government had not only
committed a breach of national courtesy, bat had in-
stilted the whole American people, by sending a fleet of
armed vessels to the Banks of Newfoundland to enforce
their :peculiar construction of the treaty of 1818. He
said the President's answer to the resolution ought to be,
that he had ordered the whole naval force of the country
into the waters bordering the British provinces, to pro-
tect the rights of American fishermen against British
cannon. Mr. Cass and Mr. Seward, and, in fact,
eovenrurodemenntati t
itohne
tcoo ut
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fipsuhresrui
ee
sd, by
andt h Britishl G. o -
nearly all the Senators present had a word to say in
condemnation
e afe resolution
passed unanimously.
A similar resolution was agreed to in the House of Re-
presentatives.
At B. a memorial had been addressed to Presi-
dent Fillmore, representing that 2,100 vessels, and
30,000 seamen are now engaged in the fisheries, repre-
senting property valued at 12,000,000 dollars; that the
people of New England and their fathers have enjoyed
the right to fish in the now proscibed waters, and
that the enforcement of the new construtrion put upon
the treaty of 1818 will ruin many families in New
resid
Eng-
land;
the memorialists therefore pray the P •
ent to
send a naval force to the British North A • merican waters
sufficient to protect the fishermen in their lawful oc-
cupation.
The Hal fax Courier furnishes a list ofthe
so vessels
ordered'to cruise on the North American
protection of British fishermen. The vessels
waters for the
are—
" Cumberland, 70 (flag Sir G. F. Seymour), Captain
Seymour.
Sappho, 12, sloop, Commander Cochrane.
" Devastation, 6, steam-sloop, 300-horse power, Com- ,
mender Campbell.

Buzzard, 6, steam-sloop, 300-horse power.
.‘ Janus, 4, steam-sloop, 220-horsepower.
" Netley, 3, ketch, Commander Kynaston.
Bermuda, 3, schooner, Lieutenant Jolly.
" Arrow, brigantine.
" Telegraph, schooner?
" Halifax, 2, brigantine, Master Laybold.
" Belle, 2, brigantine, Master Crowell.

" Itospeni;ible:2, schOoner, Master Dodd.

" Daiing, 2, schooner, Master Daley."
Her Majesty's sloop-of• war Buzzard arrived at Hall.
fax on the 19. h from Portsmontb. The Buzzard wen'
ashore on a shoal near lialifa?c, but was got off without
damage.