428 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



[Sub-iuclosure.] 



B. d' J. M. Leavitt to Mr. Woodbury. 



Boston, June 13, 1839. 

 Sir: Difficulties having occurred in relation to our fishing in the 

 Bay of Chaleurs, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Bay of Fundy, and on the 

 coast of Nova Scotia, we request the favor of instructions as to the 

 fact whether any other, or those treaty stipulations of 1783, are now 

 the regulations by which our fishermen are to be governed. 

 Very respectfully, your obedient servants, 



B. & J. M. Leavitt. 

 Hon. Levi Woodbury, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



P. S. — We wish an answer for publication to our fishermen, should 

 the Department have no objection to our adopting that course. 



[Inclosure No. 3.] 



Mr. Bancroft to Mr. YS^oodbury. 



Custom-House, 

 Boston, June 27, 1839. 

 Sir: The naval officer of this port has, at my request, addressed 

 me a letter on the subject of the late cruise of the Hamilton, in which 

 he bore a part. I enclose a copy of it. I enclose, also, a printed 

 copy of Mr. Grantham's letter. 



Captain Sturgis has performed his duty entirely to my satisfaction, 

 and has confirmed the high opinion I had heretofore expressed of 

 him. 



Very respectfully, 



George Bancroft, Collector. 

 Hon. Levi Woodbury, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



[Sub-inclosure 1.] 



Mr. Barnes, naval officer, to Mr. Bancroft, collector at Boston. 



Naval Office, 



Boston, June 27, 1839. 



Sir: In reply to your note of yesterday, asking me to state such 

 facts as may have come to my knowledge in relation to the late 

 seizures of American fishing vessels by the British government, I 

 have to say, that during the past week I visited Yarmouth, in the 

 Province of Nova Scotia, and its immediate neighbourhood, in 

 company with the officers of the United States revenue-cutter Hamil- 

 ton, by your permission, with a view to ascertain the names of as 

 many as possible of the American fishing vessels now seized and 

 detained by the British government, with the alleged causes of their 

 seizure and detention. The statement of Henry A. Grantham, esq., 

 our consular agent at Yarmouth, made at my request, and addressed 

 to the commanding officer of the Hamilton, exhibits very fully the 

 facts in relation to the seizure of four of the vessels in question. 

 While at Yarmouth, I had the pleasure of meeting very many highly 



