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responsibility for delay in the adjustiiient can not be properly cliarjifcd 

 to the Government of the United States. 



1 beg- you will express to the Marquis of Salisbury the jiratifieation 

 with which the Government of the United States learns that Sir Julian 

 rauncefote, Her Majesty's Minister, will be pre]){«red, on his return to 

 Washington in the autumn, to discuss the whole question. It gives me 

 pleasure to assure you that the Government of the United States will 

 endeavor to be jtrepared for the discussion, and that, in the opinion of 

 the President, the points at issue between the two Governments arc 

 capable of pr(!mi)t adjustment on a basis entirely honorable to both. 

 I have, etc., 



James G. Blaine. 



2Ir. Edwardcs to Mr. Blaine. 



Bar Harbor, August 25, 1889. 



Sir: I had the honor to receive yesterday your note in which you 

 have been good enough to inform me, with lesjiect to the repeated ru- 

 mors which have of late reached Her Majesty's Government of the 

 search and seizures of Britihh vessels in Behring Sea by United States 

 cruisers, that the same rumors, probably based on truth, have reached 

 the United States Government, but that up to this date there has been 

 no official communication received on the subject. 



• At the sanu' time you have done me the honor to inform me that it 

 lias been and is the earnest desire of the President of the United States 

 to have such an adjustment as shall remove all possible ground of mis- 

 understanding with Her Majesty's Government concerning the existing 

 troubles in the Behring Sea; and that the President believes that the 

 responsibility for delay in that adjustment can not be properly charged 

 to the Government of the United States. 



You request me at the same time to express to tlie Marquis of Salis- 

 bury the gratitication with which the Government of the United States 

 learns that Sir Jidiau Pauncefote, Her Majesty's Minister, Avill be pre- 

 pared, on his return to Washington in the autnmn, to discnssthe whole 

 question, and you are good enough to inform me of the pleasure you 

 have in assuring me that the Government of the United States will 

 endeavor to be prepared for the discusTsion, and that, in the opinion of 

 the President, the jjoints at issue between the two Governments are 

 cai)able of ]»r()mpt adjustment on a basis entirely honorable to both. 



1 shall lose no time in bringing your reply to the knowledge of Her 

 JMajesty's Government, who, while awaiting an answer to the other in- 

 qniry 1 had the honor to make to you, will, I feel cctntident, receive 

 with nuich satisfaction the assurances Avhich you have been good 

 enough to make to me in your note of yesterday's date. 

 1 have, etc., 



H. G. Edwardes. 



Mr. Edwardcs io Mr. Blaine. 



Washington, Scptcmhcr 13, 1SS9. 

 My Dear Mr. Blaine: I should be very mncli obliged if yon would 

 kindly let me know when 1 may expect an answer to the request of Hei' 



