LIST OF PAPERS RELATING TO THE BEHRING SEA FISHERIES. PART I. 1. Marquis of Salisbury to Sir L. S. Sackville West.. 5. Mr. Bayard to Sir L. S. Sackville West. .September 10, 1887 ..September 27, 1886 ..October 21, 1886 ....October 30, 1886 .November 12, 1886 ..December 7, 1886 ..January 9, 1887 ..January 12, 1887 .February 1, 1887 .February 3, 1887 .February 4, 1887 ..April 4, 1887 15. Mr. Bayard to Sir L. S. Sackville West (with enclosures)... 16. Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard. 17. Mr. Bayard to Sir. L. S. Sackville West. 18. Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard.. 19. Mr. Bayard to Sir L. S. Sackville West.... 20. Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard (with enclosure). .April 12, 1887 July 11, 1887 ...August 13, 1887 .September 29, 1887 .October 11, 1887 ..October 12, 1887 33. Mr. J. Q. Adams to Mr. Middleton, No. 16 (with enclosure).......... 34. Mr. J. Q. Adams to Mr. Rush, No. 70........................ .April 2, 1822 .April 24, 1823 .May 7, 1823 July 22, 1823 ..July 22, 1823 35. Mr. Middleton to Mr. J. Q. Adams, No. 35 36. Convention between Great Britain and Russia, signed.. 37. Baron Krudener to Mr. Dickins........ 38. Mr. Dickins to Baron Krudener. 39. Mr. Forsyth to Baron Krudener. 40. Baron Krudener to Mr. Forsyth 41. Mr. Forsyth to Baron Krudener 42. Baron Krudener to Mr. Forsyth 43. Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Wilkins, No. 4 (with enclosure).. 44. Mr. Wilkins to Mr. Forsyth, No. 14 (with enclosures).. 45. Mr. Wilkins to Mr. Forsyth, No. 16 (with enclosures). 46. Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Dallas, No. 3......... 47. Mr. Dallas to Mr. Forsyth, No. 6... 48. Mr. Dallas to Mr. Forsyth, No. 7 (with enclosure)... 50. Mr. Dallas to Mr. Forsyth, No. 15 (with enclosures)... ...April 19, 1824 .February 28, 1825 .May 31, 1835 ..June 3, 1835 .June 24, 1835 .July 11, 1835 July 21, 1835 ...July 26, 1835 ...July 30, 1835 .November 23, 1835 ...December II, 1835 ..May 4, 1837 .April 16, 1838 PART III. .December 23, 1867 ..January 18, 1868 53. Mr. Seward to Mr. Clay, No. 273. 56. Mr. Clay to Mr. Seward, No. 183 (with enclosure).. PART IV. 59. Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Hoffman, No. 120 (with enclosures)............ 62. Mr. Hoffman to Mr. Frelinghuysen, No. 228 (with enclosure) 65. Mr. Bayard to Mr. Wurts, No. 50......................... 70. Mr. Bayard to Mr. Lothrop, No. 74... 71. Mr. Bayard to Mr. Lothrop, No. 75., .February 24, 1868 .March 20, 1868 ..August 14, 1868 .....August 31, 1868 .March 14, 1882 ..June 28, 1886 March 7, 1887 ...March 16, 1887 .March 16, 1887 ....June 22, 1887 No. 1. Marquis of Salisbury to Sir L. S. Sackville West.* FOREIGN OFFICE, September 10, 1887. SIR: By a despatch of the 30th October last (No. 214) the late Earl of Iddesleigh instructed you to call the attention of the United States Secretary of State to the circumstances of the seizure in Behring's Sea, by the American cruiser "Corwin," of some British Canadian vessels; and His Lordship directed you to state to Mr. Secretary Bayard that Her Majesty's Government felt sure that if the proceedings which were reported to have taken place in the United States District Court were correctly described the United States Government would admit their illegality, and would cause reasonable reparation to be made to the British subjects for the wrongs to which they had been subjected and for the losses which they had sustained. By a previous despatch of the 9th September, you had been desired to ask to be furnished with any particulars which the United States Government might possess relative to the seizures in question; and on the 10th October you were instructed to enter a protest on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, and reserve for consideration hereafter all rights to compensation. Nearly four months having elapsed without any definite information being furnished by the United States Government as to the grounds of the seizures, my predecessor instructed you, on the 8th of June [January?] last, to express to Mr. Bayard the concern of Her Majesty's Government at the delay, and to urge the immediate attention of the United States Government to the action of the American authorities in their treatment of these vessels and of their masters and crews. On the 3d February Mr. Bayard informed you that the record of the judicial proceedings which he had called for was shortly expected to reach Washington, and that, without conclusion at that time of any questions which might be found to be involved in these cases of seizures, orders had been issued by the President's direction for the discontinuance of all pending proceedings, the discharge of the vessels referred to, and the release of all persons under arrest in connection therewith. On the 4th of April, under instructions from me, you inquired of Mr. Bayard, in view of the approaching fishing season in Behring's Sea, whether the owners of British vessels might rely when not near land on being unmolested by the cruisers of the United States, and you again asked when the record of the judicial proceedings might be expected. * Left at the Department of State by Sir L. S. Sackville West, Sept. 23, 1887. |