CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



draw's, there take an inventory of the articles on board and deliver 

 the same to the custom-house." 



John G. Faxon. 



Sworn to before — 



Ether Shepley. 



\ \ i Mi'.r.u 6, 1824. 



I further state that I sent an attorney to St. Andrew's to ascertain 

 the expediency of defending the vessel; that I learned through him 

 that I must first give a bond of seventy pounds to pay costs. That 

 i he costs must be paid by me whether the defence was successful or 

 not, and that then' was little prospect of obtaining a decree of restora- 

 tion without having an appeal entered; and that the expense attend- 

 ing the trial would probably exceed the value of the property, and 

 therefore declined making any defence. 



John G. Faxon. 



Sworn to before me, 



Ether Shepley. 



X( iVEMBER 6, 1824. 



[Inclosure No. 5.] 



I. Jones Wass, of Addison, in the State of Maine, testify and say : 

 That I was master of the schooner Rebecca, of Addison, of the bur- 

 den of about twenty-seven tons; that I sailed from Addison on the 

 first day of July, 1824, in the said schooner, fitted out for the fisheries; 

 that I proceeded in said schooner and made the " Mur-ground," about 

 fifteen miles southeast of the island of Grand Menan, the same day, 

 and anchored the next morning; caught a few quintals of fish ; it came 

 on to blow fresh, and I went in and anchored about half a mile from 

 land, under the island of Grand Menan ; went on shore in a boat with 

 a barrel and obtained a barrel of water, for which I went to the 

 island; and having put the water on board, got under way, and, 

 standing off to the fishing ground, perceived the barge of the British 

 gun brig Dotterel giving chase, and continued to proceed on the same 

 course, the barge pursuing till evening, it being about 3 o'clock p. m. 

 when we left the island, the barge firing a number of times; at dark 

 we lost sight of the barge, being then near the Nova Scotia shore; 

 then returned partly back to the fishing ground and hove to under 

 the foresail, and the next morning came in and anchored at Gull Cove, 

 in the island of Grand Menan, where were six other American vessels; 

 got under way again an hour after sunrise and stood out to sea; the 

 wind blew so fresh that we could not anchor on the fishing ground 

 that day. and we returned and anchored again at Gull Cove. The 

 next morning, being the fourth of July, got under way and proceeded 

 t<> thi' filling ground first mentioned, and on Monday, the fifth, con- 

 tinued on the Mur-ground, fishing; on Tuesday, the sixth of July, in 

 th" morning, the wind blowing fresh, we hove up and laid to under 

 her fore-ail. and about 8 o'clock a. m., weather being thick, and 

 Dearly out of wood, went into or near Gull Cove. About 10 o'clock 

 the barge came alongside, all hands being employed in dressing fish, 

 and ordered us under way, and said he was going to carry us into St. 

 John*- : demanded my papers, which were given up. I declined navi- 

 gating my vessel by order from the barge, and the master of the barge 



