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I most respectfully solicit the favor of being informed of the cause 

 of said seizure; and also, if there has been no sufficient reason for 

 the detention of the Amazon, as would appear by these affidavits, 

 whether the government of the province will be disposed to grant 

 redress to the parties who have thereby sustained such serious and un- 

 merited injury. 



I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient and very humble 

 servant. 



James Primrose, 



Consul, U. S. A. 

 The Hon. Sir Rupert D. George, 



Provincial Secretary <&c, &c, Halifax. 



[Sub-inclosure 1.] 



Personally came and appeared before me, James Primrose, consul 

 of the United States of America, at Pictou, in the Province of Xova 

 Scotia, George W. Taylor, master of the schooner Amazon, of Glouces- 

 ter, in the State of Massachusetts, in the United States of America ; 

 and William Biber, Tobias oS'ash, James Claney, Edward Claney and 

 John Copeland, all of Gloucester aforesaid, composing the crew of 

 the said vessel; who severally declared that the said vessel having on 

 board fishing stores and supplies, they the said appearers, set sail in 

 her from Gloucester on the 30th day of June now last past, bound to 

 Labrador, to fish for codfish ; that the said vessel arrived at the Gut 

 of Canso on the 4th day of July last, and came to anchor there at 

 Steep Creek cove, for the purpose of procuring wood and water; 

 that, on the next day, said appearers took on board said vessel two 

 barrels of water, and two cords of wood; that, thereafter, said vessel 

 remained at anchor there until the morning of Sunday, (the 7th,) on 

 account of the weather being so very foggy that at no time during 

 the said period could appearers discern objects at a distance of thirty 

 or forty yards; that, on the morning of the said 7th, one Duncan 

 .McMillan came on board and seized the said vessel, and turned all 

 the said appearers, except the master, on shore in a destitute condi- 

 tion: and the said appearers do severally most solemnly declare that 

 there wen- no articles on board the said vessel when she left Glou- 

 cester aforesaid, but such as are usual and necessary for such voyages; 



and each appealer, for himself, respectively, declares that no article 



was sold or delivered from tin—aid vessel, with his individual knowl- 

 edge or belief, from the time the said vessel sailed from Gloucester 

 a foresaid urn il die was so seized ; nor was any act or thmg committed 

 or done by either of the aid appearers. respectively, which, to the 

 knowledge of the -aid appearer . could give any color or pretence for 

 id seizure. And each appealer, for limiself, further declares, that, 

 during the time which the -iid v( el remained at anchor at the 



-aid Steep Creek COVe, as afore aid. no p.T mi whatever warned or 



requested him to remove the -aid ves el therefrom. 



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