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tained by Captain Arabin, for a breach of the act 59 George III., 

 chapter 38, passed for the protection of the British fisheries, in con- 

 formity with the stipulations of the Convention concluded between 

 his majesty and the United States on the 20th October, 1818. On 

 the same grounds that vessel was subsequently condemned by the vice 

 admiralty court, at St. Johns, in the province of New Brunswick. 



With regard to the equipping of the said schooner, by the captain 

 of the Argus, and despatching her in quest of smugglers, you will 

 observe, sir, that admiral Fahie acknowledges that act to have been 

 irregular; but he at the same time states that irregularity to have 

 been practised then for the first time, and announces that he has taken 

 measures for preventing the recurrence of it. 



With so frank an acknowledgment, I feel assured, sir, that you will 

 be perfectly satisfied. The rest of the case is so clear as to render all 

 further comment or explanation entirely superfluous. 



I beg, sir, that you will accept the assurance of my distinguished 

 consideration. 



H. U. Addington. 



The lion. John Quincy Adams, 



Secretary of State. 



[Inclosure.] 



Bear Admiral Fahie to Mr. Addington. 



His Majesty's Ship Salisbury ', 



Halifax, September 5, 1823. 



Sir: On the 2d of last month I received a letter from Mr. Canning, 

 dated Philadelphia, July 5, enclosing copies of a complaint, and pro- 

 test given in to the government of the United States by an individual 

 named George Moody, a citizen, as he is described, of the United 

 States, relative to the detention of the American schooner " Charles" 

 by bis British Majesty's sloop the "Argus" and requesting me to 

 afford him such information respecting the case as would enable him 

 to place it in a proper light. 



[Previously to my receipt of Mr. Canning's letter, Captain Arabin, 

 who commanded the Argus when the detention of the schooner 

 occurred, had returned to England — a circumstance which obliged 

 me to draw from other sources the particulars of her detention, and 

 of the subsequent proceedings in the vice-admiralty court, at New 

 Brunswick, which have been followed by' her condemnation. 



Mr. Canning's departure for Europe causes me to avail myself of 

 the intimation of your appointment as charge d'affaires ad interim, 

 contained in hi- letter to me of the 24th June, to forward for your 

 information and thai of the American government, copies of several 

 documents, a particularized :it the foot of this letter, which go to 

 contradict, in material points, the statements made in the protest, and 

 will. I irn i. ir. furnish sufficient evidence that the Charles was 

 detained and proceeded against on legal grounds. 



The manning, however, and sending her M down the bay in pursuit 

 of smugglers," which is admitted in the report of Mr. Innes, the 



