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

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE BOSTON COURIER.

it Sir,—Since my return to the city this mornine
have received a copy of a dispatch"
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tan the subject of the fisheries, and which I
send
to you for immediate publication.
Yours respectfully,
" DANIEL WEBSTER.
" TO JAMES BUCHANAN, ESQ., SECRETARY OF STATE.
" London, April 26, 1845.
16 6 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 left some-
what uncertain by Lord Aberdeen's note whether this
concession was intended to be confined to the Bay 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 particulatly
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 of the
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 Bey of Fundy 01)213'
to those waters; sad with superior force, inasmuch 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 VI hich 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
the Colonial-office, and that a final reply could not be
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 Colt:inlet-office
will be in favour of the literal construction of the con-
vention. In the moan time I be;; leave to suggest that
in any publin notice which may be given that the Bay
of Fundy is henceforth open to American fishermen, it
should be carefully stated that the extension of the itaine
privilege to the other great bays on the coast of the
Anglo-American dependencies is a matter of nenotia-
don between the two Governments. AV
the reaf
son the
25th of :larch and 2d inst. will suggest
presenting the actual state of the controversy in his
form. " I am, Si-, with great respect,
"Your obedient servant, •
" EDWARD EVERETT.'
In the Senate on 23d Mr. Meson offered the follow-
ing resolution relative to the Newfoundland fisheries
question:—
"That the Preshlent of the United States be re-
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if not incom-
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t a correspondenceGovernment
of England or its diplomatic representatives since the
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 us secured by th© 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
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British possessions in North America to protect the
rights of American fishermen under the said convention
and unusual British naval force has been ordered there
lengthy
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to enforce certain alleged rights of Great Britain under
contended that the BthrietnishenGnsueyde,rnimn
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committed a breach of national courtesy, but had in-
sulted 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,
nearly all the Senators present had a word to say in
condemnation of the course pursued by the British Go-
vernment in relation to the fisheries, and the resolution
passed unanimously.
A similar resolution was agreed to in the House of Re-
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people of New England and their fathers have enjoyed
free riqht to fish in the now proscibed waters, and
that the enforcement of the new construction put upon
the treaty of 1818 will ruin many families in New Eng-
land; the memorialists therefore pray the President to
send a naval force to the British North American waters
sufficient to protect the fishermen in their lawful oc-
cupation.
The Halifax Courier furnishes a list of the vessels
ordered to cruise on the North American waters for the
protection of British fishermen. The vessels are—
" Cumberland, 70 (flag Sir G. F. Seymour), Captain
Seymour.
" Sappho, 12, sloop, Commander Cochrane
" Devastation, 6, steam-sloop, 300-horse • power, Com-
mander Campbell.

76 Buzzard, 6, steam-sloop, 300-horse power.
fg Janus, 4, steam-sloop, 220-horse power.
• Notley, 3, ketch, Commander Kynaston.
• Bermuda, 3, schooner, Lieutenant Jolly.
" Arrow, brigantine.
" Telegraph, schooner.
" Halifax, 2, brigantine, Master Laybold.
" Belle, 2, brigantine, Master Crowell.
" Responsible, 2, schooner, Master Dodd.
" Daring, 2, scheoeer, Master Daley."
Her Majesty's sloop-of. war Buzzard arrived at Hali-
fax on the 19th from Portsmouth. The Buzzard went
ashore on a slice/ near halifax, but was got off without
damage.