Letter

Charles R. Lowell to Granville Leveson-Gower, November 16, 1883

Author

Charles R. Lowell

Recipient

Granville Leveson-Gower

Date

November 16, 1883

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 1 in No. 693.]

Mr. Lowell to Lord Granville.

Legation of the United States, London, November 16, 1883.

My Lord: Referring to your lordship’s note of the 22d of August last, in which your lordship inquired whether, in accepting the notice which I gave to Her Majesty’s Government, on the 2d of July last, that the provisions of articles 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 30 of the treaty of May 8, 1871, between the United Stated and Great Britain, will terminate and he of no force on the expiration of two years from the date of said notice Government correctly understand the intention of the United States Government to be that the provisions of article 32, which relate to Newfoundland, shall cease to be in force and operation at the same time as the articles recited in the notice which relate to the Dominion of Canada, I have the honor to acquaint you that I lost no time in transmitting a copy of your lordship’s note to the Department of State.

I have now received a reply from Mr. Frelinghuysen, in which I am instructed to inform your lordship that Her Majesty’s Government correctly understand the intention of the Government of the United States to be that the provisions of article 32 of the treaty of Washington, which relate to Newfoundland, shall cease to be in force and operation at the same time as the articles recited in the notice of the termination given by me on the 2d of July last which relate to the Dominion of Canada.

Mr. Frelinghuysen states that your lordships inquiry does not appear to invite any discussion of the points involved, or to ask anything more than a simple declaration of the intention of the United States Government as to the scope of the notice of the termination so given. He states, however, for my information, the reasons why the thirty-second article must be considered as in force so long as the other articles which are specifically terminable are in force. As his views on this subject may be interesting to your lordship, I venture to send you a copy of his dispatch, although I have no instruction to do so.

I have, &c.,

J. R. LOWELL.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.