516 CORKESPONDENCE, ETC. 



The only other vessels known here to have been seized up to this 

 date, are the Schooners "Coral" and "Hyadas", by the "Netley" 

 at Si. John, X. B. and the " Union" at Charlottetown, P. E. Lbv 

 the " Telegraph". 



I have the honor to be, sir, 



Tiros M. Braine, 

 Acting Consul, U. S. A. 



[Inclosure.] 



Provincial Secretary's Office, 



Halifax, August 7, 1852. 

 Sir: Referring to your letter of this day's date, I beg to enclose 

 a copy of a letter which by command of the Lieutenant Governor, I 

 yesterday addressed to the Collector at Pulnico, directing him to de- 

 liver up the Schooner Helen Maria to her owner. 

 I am, sir, your most obt. servant, 



(Signed) Joseph Howe. 



Thomas M. Braine, Esq., 



Acting Consul, 



[Sub-inclosure.] 



Provincial Secy. Office, August 6, 1852. 

 Sir: There being reason to hope that friendly negotiation may, 

 before long, adjust the fishery question, His Excellency the Lieu- 

 tenant Governor is unwilling to press upon Captn. Spinney in the 

 meantime a severe construction of the law. I have therefore been 

 commanded by his Excellency to authorize you to release the " Helen 

 Maria." 



I have, &c., 



(Signed.) Joseph Howe. 



Thomas Millet, Esqr., &c, &c, &c. 



Pulnico. 



Mr. Lawrence to Mr. Webster. 



No. (197) Legation of the United States, 



London, August 10, 1852. 



Sir: At the request of the Earl of Malmesbury, I had an inter- 

 view with him at the Foreign Office on Saturday, the 7th instant, 

 upon the subject of the fisheries. He began the conversation by ask- 

 ing if I had received any instructions or other communication from 

 the government of the United States in regard to them ; to which I 

 replied that I had not; that there had been scarcely time to com- 

 municate with me, and that I had no information beyond that found 

 in the public journals. 



He then remarked that this question was not understood in the 

 United States ; that Mr. Webster had sent for Mr. Crampton to come 

 to Boston ; that the British government did not intend to assert any 

 new principle, but only to protect the rights of the colonists in the 

 fisheries, which had been neglected by their predecessors; that what 

 had been done, had been done at the urgent request of the colonists 

 •themselves; that the concessions made by Lord Aberdeen, of the right 



