English or French? A telegraphic dispatch received on Monday evening informs us that Mr. Francis C. Ford, an agent of the English Foreign Office, “Has been sent to Paris to negotiate the exchange of a Leeward Island in settlement of the Newfoundland fisheries difficulties.” The Leeward Island in question is undoubtedly Dominica. … (discussion) … The recent lecture of Judge Pinsent of Newfoundland at the Royal Colonial Institute on which occasion His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales presided, had again brought the question of the French claims in the “oldest English Colony” to the front, and it has probably been recognized that the time has come for settling this matter. … (continues) …
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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893