866 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



Campo Bello; they have detained the 1 >o;i t and used her, and still do, 

 as a boat for the Dotterel. Have often seen the boat passing in the 

 waters with the Dotterel's men. We went out for pleasure fishing, 

 and to eei a fresh lish for our own use. William Howard is an 

 apprentice to a blacksmith. 



William Howard. 

 Sworn to before — ■ 



Ether Shefley. 

 november g, 1824. 



Benjamin Newman, on oath, declares: That he has heard the state- 

 ment signed by William Howard read to him, and that the facts 

 therein stated, except so far as they relate to the use of the boat by 

 the Dotterel, are wholly true. 



Benjamin Newman. 

 Sworn to before — 



Ether Sheplet. 

 November 6, 1824. 



[Tnclosure No. 12.] 



Thomas Brown, on oath, declares: That he was the owner of a small 

 boat which William Howard and two other boys took and went out 

 to fish in. They came back without the boat, and said she was taken 

 from them by the Dotterel. I went to St. Andrew's to find her, and 

 asked one of the officers of the Dotterel to let me have the boat, but 

 was told I could not have her. I then applied to Mr. Dunn, the 

 Comptroller of the Customs at St. Andrew 7 ^, to get him to intercede 

 with the captain of the Dotterel for the boat. He answered me that 

 he could not ; that no report of such a seizure had been made to him ; 

 that the captain was a bad fellow, and had the day before insulted 

 the custom-house. I returned without the boat; have since observed 

 her to be used by the DottereVs men, and believe she is still in use as 

 a boat to the Dotterel. She cost me about twenty- two or three dol- 

 lars, with the apparatus. 



Thomas Brown. 



Sworn to before — 



Ether Shepley. 



November 6, 1824. 



[Inclosure No 13.] 



T. Elisha Small, master of the schooner Ruhy, of Lubec, on oath, 

 testify and declare: That I sailed the eighth day of July, fitted out 

 for the fisheries, and went on and near to the Grand Menan Bank, and 

 continued there to fish sixteen or seventeen days; then ascertained 

 that our wood and water were expended : the wind blew heavy from 

 the north, and after attempting, without success, to gain the American 

 shore, put in to Grand Menan, in Two Island harbor, to procure wood 

 and water; this was the twenty-fifth day of July, in the afternoon, 

 and laid there till the next morning, having obtained my wood and 

 water; and by 5 o'clock next morning got under way to go out of the 

 harbor; soon saw the barge of the Dotterel lying under the Green 

 inlands, and said to the others we should be taken ; the wind died 

 away; we were becalmed, and the barge came down upon us and took 



