New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-10

answer to joint address to the Queen from the
Legislative Council and House Of Assembly OF that
Colony, complaining Of the habitual violstion. By
American citizens, Of the Convention Of 1913 IN
Win, his L0rdthIp states that her Msiesty's Gov
eminent had determined for the future 70 sta.
ton, during the fishing season. an armed force on
the coast OF Nova Scotia" and that her Maies-
tvs Minister at Washington has bean instructed
10 invite the friendly cooperation Of the American
Government" to enforce more strict observance
of the Convention, &c. Will anybody presume
that at this tine even, the Colonial Secretary en-
tertained an idea that our vessels could not Of
right fish inside Of the outer headlands Of the
bays: and that the English Envoy at Washington
was instructed 10 invite our Government to CO.
operate with ships Of the royal navv To enforce
the Convention as noe Interpreted Nay. says
LoId G-neg, in the same dispatch: The Com
menders vi shese vessels will be cautioned Ia take
care that, While supporting the rights Of British
subjects, they do not themselves orersfsp The
bounds Of the Treaty." meaning, Of course, and
neither more nor less than that our vessels should
DE allowed TO retain the fishing grounds that they
had always notwithstanding the shore 6sher,es
IN the coonists and other subjects of the realm.
here was an address Of q colony 20 the throne.
and an sppeaifrom the throne 10 our Governments
ana what occasion more fitting to remind US Of
the ACT oi faIhament OF 1919, aud that
sells were required by ITS provisions to keen out-
SIDE of she colonial bays. | may be permitted Tn
add that, ar the time OF these proceedings I Was
surrounded by persons whose fishing vessels pur-
sued the cod and msckerel in every sea aud upon
every coast of British America and who wera
alive to livery movement IN the Colonies; antthat,
while saw more than of the very cruisers
which were sent out in accordance with Lord
Gleneg : promise. there never was 4 lisp in any
quarter of an Orde IDr attempt to exclude these
vessels, Others of our dag, from a single one Of
the great bays.
Passing the able and spirited letter Of Mr.. Ste
venson. our envoy at the Court of st. James, and
some other papers, we come finally - he origin
of I" the lines 10 be drawn three miles outside OF
the outer head-land of the bays" This find
IN the ease stated " the Right Hon. NIscount
Falkland. 1t. Governor OF Nova Scotia, at the ro-
quest OF the House Of ASsembl, Of thai Province,
for the cIrpose of obtaining the onniou Of the
Law officers of the crown. in England" in April,
1871. The Rer construction of the Convention Of
1918, dates from this period; it was no where
heard of earlier it was conceived in America, not
in England. Singular To remark too that mat
ter deemed so profoundly interesting 10 Her Maes-
tvs subjects m Nova Scotia, should have fingered
along from year TO year, and not have re :eived
the attention which in their Judgment, the press
ing exigenclts OF the case demanded. The
queries of lo Falkland, were not answered by
the Queens Advocate aud the Attorney General,
until August 1911 ; nor was his Lordshlp advised
of their apinon until November, 1872; while the
publication of Lord Stanley's dispatch to Sir VIII
liam Colebrooke, 1t. Governor OF New brunswick,
in March, 1915, gave the first Official information
to the American people, that our vessels, thereaf-
ter, would be required to keep three miles from
the ENTRANCE Of any bav on the coast of Nova
Scotia or New Brunswick" These facts alone
are sufficient to show the reluctance OF the Brit
sh Government to adopt and enforce measures GER
tain to disturb the friendly relations which SO
happily existed between the two countries bus
when we add, that since 1915, our vessels have
been allowed to fish as ever before, we prove con-
cIusyelv either that the ministry csnsent in 1852,
and more than ten years after The date ofthe opiS-
ion OF the crOrn lawyers, most unwilllngl, To as
sert the doctrine maintained by these law ers, or
that they ere crminaly negectful of the interests
OF the colonists who consider themselyesso great
" wroDged
There is another remarkable circumstance con-
nected with this matter namely: that New
Brunswick and Prince Edwards Island, two other
colonies aggriev ed equally with Nova SCOTS, havo
remained in good measure at least, passive spec
taiors OF the begerant attitude OF their sister
de- pendency Nova Scotia is the South Carolina
her Majesty Dc minions in this hemisphere. She
maintains the most extreme political views; and,
like a spoiled child of the GoverDms mt, as indeed
she il, snakes demands which are wholly incompati-
BILE with her relations to the mother county
There was no Wing Of our Revolution, who in his
Hottest mood, ever dared so much as TO dream
even of the rights and privileges asserted and in
sisted on by Hon Joseph Howe his recent letters
to Lord John Russell. The present controversy
is essentially with Nova Scotia alone But tor
her we should never have heard Of I" lines" o.
"head-lands," or indents of the bays" and Of
similar terms and phrases of the school ofdbstrsc-
tOnistS.
shall examine the opinion of the crown law
yers in another letter. Respectfully,
LORENZO SABINE.