454 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



collector of customs at Charlottetown, subject to the orders of the 

 honorable the board of customs in London, and cannot be claimed by 

 the owners without first entering into bonds — probably ten times the 

 amount of the salt seized. 



I believe that a consul, to reside at Charlottetown, with the usual 

 power of appointing agents, would be a means of preventing future 

 difficulties; the only intercourse with the authorities now being 

 through a consular agent appointed by Consul James Primrose, of 

 Pictou, in another province. 



I have the honor to subscribe myself, with high respect, your 

 obedient servant. 



Jno. S. Paine, 

 Lieut. Comd'g U. S. schooner Grampus. 



Hon John Forsyth, 



Secretary of State. 



Consul Primrose to Mr. Forsyth. 



[Extract.] 



Consulate of the United States, 



Pictou, March &£, 18$. 



Sir : * * * I have received no further reply to my application 

 to the Government of this Province, respecting the detention of the 

 Amazon, than that contained in the letter of the provincial Secre- 

 tary dated the 9th November last. 



The (as I apprehend it) unjustifiable detention of that vessel led, 

 not only to the destruction of her intended voyage, but, as I am in- 

 formed, to her total loss in a gale on the coast of Cape Breton, soon 

 after she was released. 



During the past season I heard of several similar causes of com- 

 plaint as having occurred in my consulate; but as I had not the means 

 of authenticating them, I refrained from making them the subject 

 of communication to your department. 



I feel bound, however, to state as my belief, that, although there 

 may have been good grounds for the condemnation of some vessels, 

 for infringement of the convention of 1818, there has also been, on 

 the part of some of the subordinate officers of the provincial govern- 

 ment during the past season, not a little improper interference with 

 the rights of the American fishermen; and, judging from the manner 

 in which the subject has been taken up by the legislature of this 

 Province, now in session, I fear that a repetition of such acts is more 

 likely to be overlooked then reprehended by the provincial authorities. 



Consul WAVolf to Secretary Forsyth. 



Consulate U. S. America, 



Sydney, C. B., August 18, 1840. 

 Sir: I have to inform you that the fishing schooner " Pallas "° of 

 Gloucester, Mass, Edward Haskell, Master, and owned by himself 



« This vessel was afterwards released. 



