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her being driven by stress of weather to find shelter in the harbour 

 of Shelburne, N. S. 



She was deeply laden, and was off the harbour of Shelburne when 

 she sought shelter in a storm, and cast anchor just inside the har- 

 bour's entrance. 



She was at once boarded by an officer of the Canadian cutter " Ter- 

 ror " who placed two men on board. 



When the storm ceased, the " Rattler " weighed anchor to proceed 

 on her way home, when the two men placed on board by the " Ter- 

 ror " discharged their pistols as a signal, and an officer from the 

 " Terror " again boarded the " Rattler " and threatened to seize the 

 vessel unless the captain reported at the Custom House. 



The vessel was then detained until the Captain reported at the 

 Custom House, after which she was permitted to sail. 



The hospitality which all civilised nations prescribe has thus been 

 violated, and the stipulations of a treaty grossly infracted. 



A fishing vessel denied all the usual commercial privileges in a 

 port has been compelled strictly to perform commercial obligations. 



In the interests of amity I ask that this conduct may be properly 

 rebuked by the Government of Her Majesty. 

 I have, etc. 



(Sd.) T. F. BAYARD. 



The Honourable CHARLES HARDINGE, 



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No. 212. 1886, August 14' Report of the Canadian Minister of 

 Marine and Fisheries. 



OTTAWA, 14th August, 1886. 



) The undersigned has the honor to submit the following, in answer 

 to a despatch from Lord Granville to the Governor General under 

 date 27th July last, enclosing two notes from Mr. Secretary Bayard 

 to the British Minister at Washington, and asking that Her Majesty's 

 Government be furnished with a report upon the cases therein re- 

 ferred to. 



In his first communication, dated 10th July, Mr. Bayard says: 



I have the honor to inform you that I am in receipt of a report from the 

 Consul General of the United States at Halifax, accompanied by sworn testi- 

 mony, stating that the " Novelty," a duly registered merchant steam vessel of 

 the United States, has been denied the right to take in steam coal, or purchase 

 ice, or tranship fish in bond to the United States, at Pictou, Nova Scotia. 



It appears, that having reached that port on the 1st instant, and finding the 

 Customs Office closed on account of a holiday, the Master of the " Novelty " 

 telegraphed to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries at Ottawa, asking if he 

 would be permitted to do any of the three things mentioned above; that he 

 received in reply a telegram reciting with certain inaccurate and extended 

 application the language of Article I of the Treaty of 1818, the limitations 

 upon the significance of which are in pending discussion between the Govern- 

 ment of the United States and that of Her Britannic Majesty ; that on enter- 

 ing and clearing the "Novelty" on the following day at the Customs House, the 

 collector stated that his instructions were contained in the telegram the Master 

 had received, and that the privilege of coaling being denied, the " Novelty " was 

 compelled to leave Pictou without being allowed to obtain fuel necessary for 

 her lawful voyage on a dangerous coast. 



