A short debate on the Newfoundland fisheries question took place in the French Chamber on Monday. M. Flourens declared that Great Britain has for some years not seemed to govern her colonies only by obeying them, urged the Minister of Foreign Affairs to take measures for the protection of French rights in Newfoundland waters and on the so-called French shore of the oldest of British colonies. … … The authorities of London and Paris cannot agree as to the meaning of the compacts entered into in the last century, and when they do solve the problem to their own satisfaction, their solution finds no favour with the colonists. … … Mr. Justice Pinsent, who is probably the greatest living authority on the subject, denies that the French had the right they claim, and says that if it cannot be supported, the Government ought not to hesitate to secure the already sufficiently harassed British trader and fisherman in his peaceable and profitable business. It is a pity, in the interests of all concerned, that some workable understanding cannot be arrived at.
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GRO0747 Hennock: Robert John Pinsent: 1834 – 1893