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ered that he had a crew of twelve men, with full supplies of bait, 

 which his detention spoiled. 



You will at once see that the grievances I have narrated fall under 

 two distinct heads. 



The first concerns the boarding by Captain Quigley of the Marion 

 Grimes on the morning of October 8th, and compelling her to go to 

 the town of Shelburne, there subjecting her to a fine of $400 for 

 visiting the port without reporting, and detaining her there arbi- 

 trarily four days, a portion of which time was after a deposit to 

 meet the fine had been made. 



This particular wrong I now proceed to consider with none the less 

 gravity, because other outrages of the same class have been perpe- 

 trated by Captain Quigley. On August 18th last I had occasion, 

 as you will see by the annexed papers, to bring to the notice of the 

 British Minister at this Capital several instances of aggression on 

 the part of Captain Quigley on our fishing vessels. On October 19, 

 1886, 1 had also to bring to the British Minister's notice the fact that 

 Captain Quigley had, on September the 10th, arbitrarily arrested the 

 Everett Steele, a United States' fishing vessel, at the outer port of 

 Shelburne. To these notes I have received no reply. Copies are 

 transmitted, with the accompanying papers, to you in connection 

 with the present instruction, so that the cases, as part of a class, can 

 be presented by you to Her Majesty's Government. 



Were there no treaty relations whatever between the United States 

 and Great Britain, were the United States fishermen without any 

 other right to visit those coasts than are possessed by the fishing craft 

 of any foreign country simply as such, the arrest and boarding of the 

 Grimes, as above detailed, followed by forcing her into the port of 

 Shelburne, there subjecting her to fine for not reporting, and de- 

 taining her until her bait and ice were spoiled, are wrongs which I 

 am sure Her Majesty's Government will be prompt to redress. No 

 governments have been more earnest and resolute in insisting that 

 vessels driven by stress of weather into foreign harbors should not 

 be subject to port exactions than the Governments of Great Britain 

 and the United States. So far has this solicitude been carried that 

 both governments, from motives of humanity, as well as of interest 

 as leading maritime powers, have adopted many measures by which 

 foreigners as well as citizens or subjects arriving within their terri- 

 torial waters may be protected from the perils of the sea. For this 

 purpose not merely light-houses and light-ships are placed by us at 

 points of danger, but an elaborate life-saving service, well equipped 

 with men, boats, and appliances for relief, studs our seaboard in 

 order to render aid to vessels in distress, without regard to their 

 nationality. Other benevolent organizations are sanctioned by Gov- 

 ernment which bestow rewards on those who hazard their lives in 

 the protection of life and property in vessels seeking in our waters 

 refuge from storms. Acting in this spirit the Government of the 

 United States has been zealous, not merely in opening its ports freely, 

 without charges to vessels seeking them in storm, but in insisting 

 that its own vessels, seeking foreign ports under such circumstances, 

 and exclusively for such shelter, are not under the law of nations 

 subject to custom-house exactions. 



