350 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



and restitution ordered to be made to the parties who suffered through 

 the exercise of it, although otherwise liable, by the illegality of their 

 conduct, to the entire loss of their property. 



But in the meantime, sir, it becomes my duty to demand reparation, 

 by the punishment of the transgressors, for the act of violence per- 

 petrated on persons bearing his Majesty's commissions, while engaged 

 in the discharge of their public duties. 



1 feel confident, sir, that you will view this outrage in the same light 

 as myself, and consider such conduct equally dangerous to the peace 

 and well being of the two countries; and I have no doubt that you 

 will see the expediency of causing immediate proceedings to be insti- 

 tuted against the principal actors in this disgraceful scene. 



I beg. sir. that you will accept the renewed assurances of my dis- 

 tinguished consideration. 



H. U. Addington. 



[Inclosure No. 1.] 



Rear-Admiral Lake to Mr. Addington. 



Halifax, September 9, 182^. 



Sir : I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a letter, dated 

 26th ultimo, from Captain Hoare, of his Majesty's sloop Dotterel, 

 with its inclosure from Mr. John Jones, master of that sloop; also 

 copies of two letters from Captain Hoare, dated the 2d instant, one 

 of them containing a copy of the affidavit therein mentioned. 



By the first of these communications you will perceive that two 

 American vessels, called the Reindeer and Ruby, were seized by the 

 master of the Dotterel in Two Island harbor, Grand Menan, on the 

 26th of July, for a breach of the treaty between Great Britain and 

 the United States ; and that on the evening of the same day, when 

 abreast of Harbor de Lute, proceeding to St. Andrew's, an attack was 

 made on the vessels in question b} 7 two schooners and an open boat, 

 under American colors, full of armed men, with muskets and fixed 

 bayonets, amounting to about one hundred, having the appearance of 

 militia men, and headed by a Mr. Howard, of Eastport, who is said 

 to be a captain in the United States militia ; in consequence of which, 

 the master thought it most prudent to surrender to such superior 

 force. 



Captain Hoare's next letter mentions his having, on the 29th ultimo, 

 on his passage to Halifax, fallen in with the American schooner 

 Madison, (by her papers, Ansel Coggins master,) which he was in- 

 formed was one of the vessels to which the men belonged who rescued 

 the before mentioned vessels from his master; and that, finding on 

 board this vessel a man, named Daniel Rumney, whom one of the 

 marines of the Dotterel identified as one of the persons concerned in 

 the rescue, Captain Hoare thought proper to detain the vessel, and 

 take Rumney on board the Dotterel as a prisoner. 



Captain Hoare's other letter refers to the Pilgrim, an American 

 fi-hing vessel, seized by him at Grand Menan, in June last, for a 

 breach of the treaty ; which vessel was afterwards rescued by some of 

 her crew, in conjunction with one of the men whom Captain Hoare 

 had put in charge of her; and the said vessel having been fallen in 

 with on the 29th ultimo, and a man named Winslow, who, Captain 



