LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE CANADIAN FISHERIES QUESTION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOL"] SIR, —In speaking on the Canadian fisheries question, you mention no Treaty but that of 1818. Let me refer you to an article on "The North-Eastern Fisheries" in the New York Nation of September 15 last, from which it appears that the Treaty of 1818 was superseded by that of 1854, which was again annulled in 1865 ; and that the question now is—(1) Did this annulment revive the Treaty of 1813, or leave the countries without any mutual arrangement? or (2) did it throw the countries back to the still earlier Treaty of 1783, which granted to the United States rights of a kind ineffaceable, except by their own consent, the right to fish on any part whatever of the coast being among them? or (3) were those rights effaceable, and effaced by the war of 1812, in which case only Query 1 remains to be answered? I enclose my name, and am, Sir, &c., BLOOMSBURY. [The President in his Message expressly bases his right on the Treaty of 1818.—En. Spectator.]
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