To a resolution of the Senate, requesting information in regard to the fisheries on the coasts of the British possessions in North America. AUGUST 3, 1852. Read. AUGUST 5, 1852. Ordered to be printed. To the Senate of the United States : In answer to the resolution of the Senate, of the 23d ultimo, requesting information in regard to the fisheries on the coasts of the British possessions in North America, I transmit a report from the acting Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied. Commodore M. C. Perry, with the United States steam-frigate Mississippi under his command, has been despatched to that quarter, for the purpose of protecting the rights of American fishermen under the convention of 1818. WASHINGTON, August 2, 1852. MILLARD FILLMORE. The acting Secretary of State, to whom has been referred the resolution of the Senate of the 23d ultimo, requesting the President to communicate to that body, if not incompatible with the public interest, "all correspondence on file in the executive departments, with the government of England or its diplomatic representatives, since the convention between the United States and Great Britain, 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 said convention. And that the President be also requested (under like limitation) 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 said convention of 1818, since the receipt of intelligence that a large and un usual British naval force had been ordered there to enforce certain alleged rights of Great Britain under said convention," has the honor to lay before the President the accompanying papers. These, together with those communicated to the Senate on the 28th of February, 1845, but which, it appears from the journal of that body, were not ordered to be printed, embrace all the information possessed by this department on the subject of the said resolution. Respectfully submitted, To the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. W. HUNTER, 93 4740 3 [ 100 † LIST OF ACCOMPANYING PAPERS. Mr. Adams to Mr. Canning, (with enclosures,) June 25, 1823. Mr. Addington to Mr. Adams, (with enclosures,) October 12, 1823. Mr. Brent to Mr. Addington, September 8, 1824. Same to the same, September 21, 1824. Mr. Addington to Mr. Adams, (with enclosures,) October 5, 1824. Mr. Brent to Mr. Vaughan, February 2, 1826. Mr. Vaughan to Mr. Clay, February 5, 1826. Same to the same, April 29, 1826. Mr. Bankhead to Mr. Forsyth, (with enclosures,) January 6, 1836. Mr. Bankhead to Mr. Forsyth, January 19, 1836. House document No. 186, 26th Congress, 1st session. Message from the President of the United States, referred in the report of the Acting Secretary of State as having been communicated to the Senate on the 28th of February, 1845. Mr. Everett to Mr. Calhoun, (with enclosures,) March 25, 1845. Same to Mr. Buchanan, April 23, 1845. Mr. Buchanan to Mr. Bancroft, (with one enclosure,) December 10, 1846. Mr. Crampton to Mr. Webster, July 5, 1852. Mr. Hunter to Mr. Crampton, July 14, 1852. 1-16-415 652173 |